Major Themes in the Evangelists’ Portrait of Jesus’ Theology: The Kingdom and the Uniquely Authoritative One in Act and Word

1. The Event of Submitting to Baptism- Identifying with John the Baptist’s Message and Being Identified by the Divine Voice

Josephus, Antiquities 18.116-119

1QS 8.14; 9.19-20

2. The Event of the Temptation- Showing The Opponent and the Qualification of the One Sent as Son

3. Teaching: The Kingdom of God as God’s Dynamic Rule and Vindication of the Righteous Both Now and Yet to Come

1 Enoch 9:4-5; 12:3; 25; 27:3; 81:3

Assumption of Moses 7–10

Psalms of Solomon 17–18

2 Baruch 36-40

1QS 3–4

Sib Or 3:796-808

2 Bar 70:2-8

4 Ezra 6:24; 9:1-12; 13:29-31

1QM 12:9; 19:1-2

2 Macc 1:24-29

Psalms of Solomon 17–18

1 Enoch 37–71

4 Ezra 7:28-29; 12:32-34; 13:26

Eighteen Benedictions

Sirach 23:1, 4 LXX

3 Macc 6:3, 8

Wis 14:3

4. Titles, Teaching, and Actions: Who Is Jesus?

Titles

Josephus, Antiquities 8.45-46

Teaching and Actions

4QPrNab 1.4 (= 4Q 242)

b Ned 41a

CD 11:13-14

m Shab 18.3

B Sanh 43a

T. Dan 5:3

T Isaachar 5:2; 7:6

Philo, Spec Leg 2.63

b Shab 31a

1 Enoch 90:28-30, 4

Benediction 14

5. The Community of the New Era: The Calling of Those who Respond

6. The Vindication to Come: Warning to Israel, Inclusion of Gentiles, and The Return of the Son of Man to Judge the World.

1 Enoch 10:4; 103:8

Jubilees 7:29

Ps Sol 14:9; 15:10

7. The Final Week: A Dispute over Authority Leads to the Cross , Resurrection, and Seating with Authority to God’s Right Hand