Shane Williamson’s Reviews > Jerusalem Crucified, Jerusalem Risen: The Resurrected Messiah, the Jewish People, and the Land of Promise > Status Update

In his death on the cross, Jesus anticipates and bears in himself the punishment that will fall on Jerusalem forty years later. In this way, he transforms that event, rendering it not only a punishment for the rebellion of past generations but also a purifying fire capable of producing spiritual renewal. (230)

[Luke-Acts] assesses the Jewish and ecclesial circumstances of his own day with prophetic clarity. He sees the dangers posed by an anti-Jewish reading of Paul, and seeks to counter those threats. He also sees the opportunities opened by the emerging rabbinic movement, and seeks to encourage the ekklēsia to adopt the same attitude toward them as is shown by the father in the parable of the two sons. (228)