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Jesus and the Rites of Repentance
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The question of whether Jesus preached repentance has been discussed in historical Jesus research over the past twenty years, without any scholarly consensus being at hand as mentioned in this paper, and the question has been investigated by investigating early Jewish conceptions of repentance.Abstract:
The question as to whether Jesus preached repentance has been discussed in historical Jesus research over the past twenty years, apparently without any scholarly consensus being at hand. This article seeks to eliminate some unnecessary confusion from the debate by investigating early Jewish conceptions of repentance and suggesting that a distinction should be maintained between moral and ritual repentance. It argues that Jesus, while most probably expecting moral repentance of his followers, did not uphold the customary rites of repentance. The article suggests some reasons for Jesus' avoidance of traditional penitential prayers and practices, which may account for the instances of strong criticism against him indicated by the synoptic Gospels.read more
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Matthew: A Commentary on His Handbook for a Mixed Church under Persecution
TL;DR: Gundry argued for a combination of historical data and theological embellishments in passages such as those that present the birth of Jesus the Sermon on the Mount, and Peter's walking on the water as mentioned in this paper.
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An Aramaic Approach to Q: Sources for the Gospels of Matthew and Luke
TL;DR: Casey as discussed by the authors examined the Aramaic dimension of the gospels of the Matthew and Luke gospels and showed that they used two different Greek translations of an Aramaic source, which can be reconstructed.
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Sinners and the Righteous. A Comparative Study of the Psalms of Solomon and Paul’s Letters
TL;DR: I avhandlingen jamfors hur "syndare" och "rattfardiga" klassificeras och beskrivs i Salomos psalmer respektive Paulus brev, for att utrona nar och hur Paulus anvandning av beteckningarna avviker fr...
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Jesus and the Sinners
TL;DR: In the early Church, a high tolerance for sinners was not a characteristic of the early church, as far as we can know it as mentioned in this paper, and the description of Jesus' group as ’sinners' would probably not have been created by the post-Easter church, and the term probably originated, as Jeremias and others have suggested, as an accusation.