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Monday, February 18, 2019

Review of Mark Kinzer's "Jerusalem Crucified, Jerusalem Risen"

I am grateful to have had the opportunity to review Mark Kinzer's latest book, Jerusalem Crucified, Jerusalem Risen, for Messiah Journal (issue 133, Winter 2019). I wrote that it is a:
groundbreaking work aimed at providing an integrated, coherent interpretation of the biblical text on diverse yet inextricable and indispensable components of the euangelion (good news): the Jewish people; the land of Israel; the city of Jerusalem; the temple, the Torah; the ekklēsia (including Jewish and gentile members); and the divine plan for humanity and the cosmos, especially in modern Jewish history. Ultimately these lead to an interpretation of the euangelion as a message that addresses all these matters with “integrative power.” Moreover, the euangelion is not merely historical (pointing to the life, death, resurrection and ascension of Jesus) but also prophetic, pointing to what is yet to come for all its components listed above—or all but the temple, which is a special case. ...
The book is not for casual readers; it is for thought-leaders in the ekklēsia and the Jewish world, and it is an absolute must-have for advanced students of Luke-Acts. 

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