Conclusion
Conclusion
Scholars who argue for a non-eschatological Jesus usually (though not always) resort to primarily Gentile contexts for Jesus rather than the most obvious context we know to be true of him: Jesus was a Jewish Galilean. In their most extreme form, the non-Jewish portrayals of Jesus place him in the context of Cynic philosophers, and seek to explain away the Jewish character of even specifically Jewish language such as “kingdom of God.”
A much nearer context for Jesus, one more often preferred in the current so-called “Third Quest” for him, is his known setting as a Galilean Jew. Scholars adopting this approach have come to a higher degree of consensus about Jesus, although, as we shall note in the following chapter, some disparity (even about his eschatological message) persists.