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A Gadamerian orientation to the study of the apocalyptic teachings of Jesus combines critical self-consciousness with historical consciousness. Adopting this critical orientation, the chapter examines two bases for concluding that Jesus calculated and employed a timetable for the end times. The first basis may be found in the Mt. of Olives discourse in Mark 13:3–37, particularly in the way Jesus there employs the 70-year prophecy in Jeremiah 25/29, as reinterpreted in the Book of Daniel. A comparison of the discourse with some 12 pre-100 ce Jewish texts that also reinterpreted Jeremiah’s or Daniel’s 70 years demonstrates the nature and intensity of their interest in end-times calculations, and provides an instructive empirical basis for reconstructing how Jesus interpreted Daniel’s prophecy as applying to his own generation. The second basis for reconstructing Jesus’s end-times timetable occurs in the synagogue proclamation at Nazareth, in Luke 4:16–30. The synagogue proclamation preserves a key part of Jesus’s calculation that he was living in the final week-year of Daniel’s 70 week-years. |
