Jesus and His Death: Historiography, the Historical Jesus, and Atonement Theory

by Scot McKnight

Book Overview

Recent scholarship on the historical Jesus has rightly focused upon how Jesus understood his own mission. But no scholarly effort to understand the mission of Jesus can rest content without exploring the historical possibility that Jesus envisioned his own death. In this careful and far-reaching study, Scot McKnight contends that Jesus did in fact anticipate his own death, that Jesus understood his death as an atoning sacrifice, and that his death...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1932792791
• ISBN13: 9781932792799
• Release Date: August 2006
• Publisher: Baylor University Press
• Length: 458 Pages
• Weight: 1.48 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.0" x 6.0" x 9.0"
• Grade Range: Postsecondary and higher