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SILENCING THE WITNESSES IBD

EMMAUS ROAD PUBLISHING
03 / 2020
9780994105820
Anglès

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Moses and Elijah back from the dead?The most popular interpretation of Revelation 11 today is literalá&ndash, that Moses and Elijah are soon to reappear in the streets ofáJerusalem as witnesses, to preach for three and a half years, thenábe killed by a metaphorical beast (a man called the Antichrist)ábefore being resurrected again after three and a half days.The most common academic view today, however, is thatáthese are all metaphorical images, referring to the church beingápersecuted initially by the Romans, today by the whole world,ábut ultimately vindicated.In this book, Graeme Carlé takes the metaphorical approachábut from a Jewish perspective. The Early Church was, after all,áled by Jewish disciples and/or Gentiles taught by Jewish disciples.áHe shows how the two witnesses would have been understoodáby John&rsquo,s 1st Century audience to be the Law and the Prophets,ámaking essential connections with Jesus&rsquo, parable of the rich manáand Lazarus, and with Paul&rsquo,s two Jerusalems in Galatians 4.In doing so, Graeme surveys the effects of the Law over 4,000áyears of Jewish history, how it still applies to every Jew not underáthe New Covenant, and how it is relevant for all of us today.

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