![]() Gibsons conclusions offer new insights into the historical Jesus and the movement he sought to establish. Rather, it was meant to protect disciples from the temptations of their age and, thus, to strengthen their countercultural testimony. Check out pictures, bibliography, and biography of Jeffrey B. In context, Gibson shows (pace Schweitzer, Lohmeyer, Davies, Allison, and a host of other scholars) that the prayer had little to do with calling down into the present realities of the age to come. Jesus did not mean to teach a unique understanding of God the prayer had its roots in first-century Jewish movements of protest. Disciples Prayer The Prayer Jesus Taught in Its Historical Setting by Jeffrey B. The genre of the prayer, he shows, is petitionary, and understanding its intent requires understanding Jesus purpose in calling disciples as witnesses against this generation. Gibson, 2015, 1517 Media edition, in English. Gibson reviews scholarship that derives the so-called Lords Prayer from Jewish synagogal prayers and refutes it. ![]() Christians around the world recite the Lords Prayer daily, but what exactly are they praying forand what relationship does it have with Jesus own context? Jeffrey B. ![]()
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