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Joel Marcus is Professor of New Testament and Christian Origins at Duke Divinity School and author of the two-volume Anchor Bible Commentary on Mark.

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Obras por Joel Marcus

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The Death of Jesus in Early Christianity (1995) — Autor — 84 exemplares
Authenticating the Activities of Jesus (1998) — Contribuidor — 30 exemplares

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These homilies were first delivered at a Good Friday service in 1995, the 50th anniversary of the end of World War II and the Holocaust. The author is a New Testament scholar with a secular Jewish background, so the intersection of Christianity and the Holocaust is of special interest to him. Each homily is prefaced by an image (a painting or photograph) and a poem or prose excerpt with a theme related to the homily. A theme that runs throughout the collection is that of unjust suffering – of the millions of Jews who suffered and died because they were Jews, and of the innocent Christ who suffered and died on the cross. It would be a good collection for a Lenten reading list.… (mais)
 
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10
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5
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588
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1
ISBN
20
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