Did ancients expect resurrection from the Messiah?
You may have heard someone, maybe a preacher, ask on Palm Sunday, “What did the crowds waving palm branches expect when Jesus rode into Jerusalem on a donkey?” ...
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You may have heard someone, maybe a preacher, ask on Palm Sunday, “What did the crowds waving palm branches expect when Jesus rode into Jerusalem on a donkey?” ...
One answer occurs in the Dead Sea Scrolls, discovered just a few miles from where Jesus entered Jerusalem on a donkey, along the shores of the Dead Sea.
A Messiah to combine the different messianic visions Nanine Charbonnel [NC] has been exploring various ways the Jesus figure of the gospels was drawn to embody certain groups of people and now proceeds to discuss the way our evangelists (gospel authors) also found ways to encapsulate the different Jewish ideas about the Messiah into him as well. I have posted many times on Second Temple messianic ideas and questioned a common view that there was “a rash of messianic hopes” in first-century Palestine. I post links to some of these posts that illustrate or expand on NC’s points. Various M...