Jesus And His Promised Second Coming: Jewish Eschatology And Christian Origins

Foreword by Dale C. Allison Jr. 
Preface 
List of Abbreviations 
Part 1: Reading the Future of Jesus Backward: A Fresh Approach 
          1. Reception History and Expanding the Conversation 
          2. Two Seminal Contributions 
          3. Critique 
          4. Complexifying the Eschatological Jesus 
          Concluding Thoughts on Part 1 
Part 2: The “Painful Thorn” of the Parousia: The Reception of the Second Coming in Biblical Studies 
          5. Charting Christian Eschatology over the Centuries 
          6. The “Painful Thorn” of the Parousia 
          7. Elitism and Anti-Judaism 
          Concluding Thoughts on Part 2 
Part 3: Awake and at Work: Early Christian Eschatology and the Coming of Jesus 
          8. The Parousia in Paul’s Letters and Ministry 
          9. Jesus and the Future in Mark 
          10. The Return of the King in Matthew and Luke 
          11. Jesus and Eschatology in the Fourth Gospel 
          Concluding Thoughts on Part 3 
Part 4: The Future Kingdom and Its Messiah: Death, Mission, and the End of the Age 
          12. Tendencies, Trajectories, and Tradition Histories 
          13. Messianic Exegesis, Imagination, and History 
          14. Death, Interim, Resurrection, and the Sitz im Leben Jesu 
          15. The Ambiguities of the “Coming” of the Son of Man 
          16. Two Scenarios and Das Leben Jesu Revisited 
          Concluding Thoughts on Part 4 and the Study 
Bibliography 
Indexes