re: #47 Dr Lizardo

Fair enough; there’s also a school of thought that Jesus was an itinerant apocalyptic preacher, in the tradition of Isiah, Ezekiel, Jeremiah, etc.

Certainly, it’s no secret that apocalypticism was rampant* in First Century CE Judea.

* hmm……sounds eerily familiar

There was an element of that for certain. It remains most clear in Mark, but is present throughout the canonical gospels.

A good corrective these days is the Jewish Annotated New Testament edited by Amy Jill Levine, a practicing Jew who teaches the New Testament at Vanderbilt.