Part I
Norm continues his journey to the northernmost points of Jesus’s travels in order to help determine how Jesus seemed to know about his upcoming death. One of this first issues Norm faces is determining how Jesus could seem so knowledgeable about his imminent death, yet be so limited in knowing about other events (152-157). Norm then continued his trek to the foot of Mt. Hermon where he discovered a parallel between the location and Jesus’s foreshadowing (157-160). On his return to Jerusalem, Norm discusses with a man he met on the bus, Levy, about how Jews have been forbidden to enter the Temple Mount which leads Norm to question Jesus’s political views in accordance to his religious zeal (165). The last portion of the chapter deals with Norm’s quest to find out how Jesus knew about the new kingdom, but nothing of the time in which it would take to happen (166-181).
Part II
One portion of Norm’s studies that sticks out to me is how Jesus is portrayed often in the Gospels as superhuman with supernatural knowledge, however this knowledge is limited at other points (154-155). It makes sense to me that early Christian writers would want to portray Jesus as more than human to legitimize him; however it is also apparent that his human characteristics come through as well. The dream also struck me as interesting in the fact that Jesus knew he would die but needed his followers to remain loyal afterwards (156, 168). When the second kingdom would take place was seemingly unknown to Jesus but he may have implied that it was much sooner than modern scholars initially thought. The idea that the fall of Jerusalem to the Romans was indeed the arrival of the kingdom of God (174) is an interesting perspective and one I had never even considered beforehand.
Norm continues his journey to the northernmost points of Jesus’s travels in order to help determine how Jesus seemed to know about his upcoming death. One of this first issues Norm faces is determining how Jesus could seem so knowledgeable about his imminent death, yet be so limited in knowing about other events (152-157). Norm then continued his trek to the foot of Mt. Hermon where he discovered a parallel between the location and Jesus’s foreshadowing (157-160). On his return to Jerusalem, Norm discusses with a man he met on the bus, Levy, about how Jews have been forbidden to enter the Temple Mount which leads Norm to question Jesus’s political views in accordance to his religious zeal (165). The last portion of the chapter deals with Norm’s quest to find out how Jesus knew about the new kingdom, but nothing of the time in which it would take to happen (166-181).
Part II
One portion of Norm’s studies that sticks out to me is how Jesus is portrayed often in the Gospels as superhuman with supernatural knowledge, however this knowledge is limited at other points (154-155). It makes sense to me that early Christian writers would want to portray Jesus as more than human to legitimize him; however it is also apparent that his human characteristics come through as well. The dream also struck me as interesting in the fact that Jesus knew he would die but needed his followers to remain loyal afterwards (156, 168). When the second kingdom would take place was seemingly unknown to Jesus but he may have implied that it was much sooner than modern scholars initially thought. The idea that the fall of Jerusalem to the Romans was indeed the arrival of the kingdom of God (174) is an interesting perspective and one I had never even considered beforehand.
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