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“In Justin’s texts, Christ is not the Christian name for what is rational, but something much more difficult to swallow: what is rational is who Christ is.”

“Modern scholars who have worried over the fact that there are no passages in the Old Testament that directly say that the coming Messiah will suffer and die have missed Luke’s theological style from the outset. Luke’s reading of the Old Testament is anything but wooden, and the way in which messianic prefiguration works for him hinges not on simplistic one-for-one proofs… but on Jesus’ resurrection.”

I don’t think any NT scholar makes me snicker like Rowe, didn’t realize you could get published sardonically calling Historical Jesus studies an “industry”😂💀

The most significant book I've read in a decade! Not only intellectually challenging and wide-ranging, but well-written and inviting. Thus, the threshold for accessing Rowe's points is lowered from the dizzying height of the ivory tower of academia to a reasonable height that many more can, and should, attain.