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The Time Is Fulfilled: Jesus and the Jubilee
Published online by Cambridge University Press: 30 January 2009
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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.
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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. 1–20CrossRefGoogle 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 Deutq 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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