American New Testament scholar at Princeton Theological Seminary who is a leading authority on the historical Jesus and the Gospel of Matthew — and whose work on eschatology and the historical Jesus is foundational for contemporary Jesus scholarship.
Argues that Jesus must be understood as an apocalyptic prophet in the tradition of John the Baptist — the kingdom of God Jesus announced was an imminent eschatological intervention — and that modern Christianity's domestication of Jesus removes the most distinctive and challenging element of his message.
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