Jesus in Jerusalem: The Last Days

by Eckhard J. Schnabel

Publisher:

Eerdmans

, 2018

Overview

This is the first book to describe and analyze, sequentially and in detail, all the persons, places, times, and events mentioned in the Gospel accounts of Jesus’s last week in Jerusalem.

Part reference guide, part theological exploration, Eckhard Schnabel’s Jesus in Jerusalem uses the biblical text and recent archaeological evidence to find meaning in Jesus’s final days on earth. Schnabel profiles the seventy-two people and groups and the seventeen geographic locations named in the four passion narratives. Placing the events of Jesus’s last days in chronological order, he unpacks their theological significance, finding that Jesus’s passion, death, and resurrection can be understood historically as well as from a faith perspective.

Key Features

• Considers, carefully, what can and cannot be known about the witnesses of Jesus' last days
• Emphasizes the significance of the study for understanding the person of Jesus in history
• Takes seriously the breadth of primary sources and historical events

Contents

• People
• Places
• Timelines
• Events
• Significance

Top Highlights

“The reference to Passover (τὸ πάσχα, to pascha) is prominent in the preparations for the Last Supper,³⁰⁸ which indicates that Jesus’ Last Supper with his disciples was a Passover meal.” (Page 206)

“The rabbinic evidence shows that there were indeed disputes and disparities in Jewish Palestine regarding the Passover calendar and that some people offered their Passover sacrifices early, for a variety of reasons.” (Page 147)

“Given our earlier considerations, this leaves ad 30 as the year of Jesus’ crucifixion.^{22” (Page 140)}

“John’s dating of Jesus’ anointing in Bethany is historically plausible.” (Page 141)

“In October 2016, a team of scientists from the National Technical University of Athens, under the direction of Professor Antonia Moropoulou, exposed the original surface of the tomb in the Edicule, removing the marble cladding that had covered the tomb since at least ad 1555; the restoration of the Edicule was finished in March 2017.” (Page 137)

Product Details

• Title: Jesus in Jerusalem: The Last Days
• Author: Eckhard J. Schnabel
• Publisher: Eerdmans
• Print Publication Date: 2018
• Logos Release Date: 2019
• Pages: 706
• Language: English
• Resources: 1
• Format: Digital › Logos Research Edition
• Subjects: Jesus Christ › Biography--Passion Week; Jesus Christ › Friends and associates; Jesus Christ › Travel; Israel › Description and travel; Jesus Christ › Chronology
• ISBNs: 9780802875808, 0802875807
• Resource ID: LLS:JSSJRSLMLSTDYS
• Resource Type: Monograph
• Metadata Last Updated: 2022-09-30T00:57:45Z

About Eckhard J. Schnabel

Eckhard J. Schnabel received his PhD from the University of Aberdeen in Scotland, and is the Mary French Rockefeller Distinguished Professor of New Testament Studies at Gordon-Conwell Theological Seminary in South Hamilton, Massachusetts. He is the author of numerous books, commentaries, and essays, including Early Christian Mission, Paul the Missionary, and Der Erste Brief an Die Korinther in the Historisch-Theologische Auslegung commentary series. He also spoke at Pastorum Live 2012.