BookTalk - Jesus and His Promised Second Coming: Jewish Eschatology and Christian Origins

Name: BookTalk - Jesus and His Promised Second Coming: Jewish Eschatology and Christian Origins
Start: 2025-03-20T17:00:00-04:00
End: 2025-03-20T18:00:00-04:00
Location: 616 N. Highland Avenue , Pittsburgh, PA, United States, Pennsylvania 15206

Schedule

Thu Mar 20 2025 at 05:00 pm to 06:00 pm

UTC-04:00

Location

616 N. Highland Avenue , Pittsburgh, PA, United States, Pennsylvania 15206 | Pittsburgh, PA

In Person and Online
In this pioneering study of Scripture and reception history, Tucker S. Ferda shows that the hope for Jesus’s second coming originated in his own message about the coming of the kingdom after a time of distress.

Most historical Jesus scholars take for granted that Jesus’s second coming was invented by his zealous early followers. In Jesus and His Promised Second Coming, Tucker S. Ferda challenges this critical consensus. Using innovative methodology, Ferda works backward through reception history to Paul and the Gospels to argue that the hope for the second coming originated in Jesus’s own grappling with the prospect of death and his conviction that the kingdom was near; he expected a return that would coincide with the final judgment and the end of the age within the space of a generation.

Bold and historically astute, Jesus and His Promised Second Coming (Eerdmanns, 2024) breathes new life into a long-stagnant conversation. It also offers readers fresh insight into the history of Jewish-Christian relations. Students and scholars of the New Testament will need to read and engage with Ferda’s provocative argument.