The Time Is Fulfilled: Jesus and the Jubilee

Margaret Barker

doi:10.1017/S0036930600053886

The Time Is Fulfilled: Jesus and the Jubilee

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As the Millennium approaches, there is considerable interest in the Old Testament idea of Jubilee, but the New Testament application is unexplored. The Jubilee is a key element in understanding both the ministry of Jesus and Palestine in the first century CE.

Type: Research Article
Information: Scottish Journal of Theology , Volume 53 , Issue 1 , February 2000 , pp. 22 - 32

DOI: https://doi.org/10.1017/S0036930600053886 [Opens in a new window]
Copyright: Copyright © Scottish Journal of Theology Ltd 2000

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^{page 23 note 1} See ‘Sabbatical Year and Jubilee’ in The Jewish Encyclopaedia.

^{page 24 note 2} See my ‘Atonement: the Rite of Healing’ in Scottish Journal of Theology 49. 1 (1996), pp. 1–20CrossRef Google Scholar.

^{page 24 note 3} See my The Risen Lord (T&T Clark: Edinburgh, 1996), pp. 61–64Google Scholar.

^{page 24 note 4} See ‘Sabbatical Year and Jubilee’ in The Jewish Encyclopaedia.

^{page 24 note 5} The Risen Lord, pp. 121–30.

^{page 25 note 6} The Qumran text 4Q Deut^q has ‘sons’.

^{page 25 note 7} See my ‘Atonement’, pp. 9–15.

^{page 25 note 8} See my The Older Testament (London, 1987), pp. 184–220Google Scholar.

^{page 25 note 9} See ‘Sabbatical Year and Jubilee’ in The Jewish Encyclopaedia.

^{page 26 note 10} Ezra 4:3–8 says they began in the second year of their coming to Jerusalem, but local hostility stopped the work until the second year of Darius, 520 BCE (Ezra 4:24).

^{page 26 note 11} This is argued, on other grounds than that of Jubilee, by Bright, John, A History of Israel (London, 1960)Google Scholar.

^{page 26 note 12} See my ‘Atonement’, pp. 13–14.

^{page 27 note 13} Using the text and notes in DJD XXIII Qumran Cave 11. (Garcia-Martinez and others, Oxford 1998.)

^{page 27 note 14} Herod the Great died in 4 BCE, when Jesus was a young child (Matthew 2:19).

^{page 28 note 15} Translating qsy as ‘ends of rather than ‘ages’ as in DJD.

^{page 28 note 16} Jesus as Melchizedek is the theme of my The Risen Lord.

^{page 29 note 17} See The Risen Lord, pp. 22, 27.

^{page 30 note 18} Eusebius, History of the Church 2.23.

^{page 30 note 19} Josephus, Jewish War 2.427.

^{page 30 note 20} Babylonian Talmud, Gittin 56a.

^{page 31 note 21} War 5.459; War 6.99; War 6.4.

^{page 31 note 22} War 5.272.

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