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Jesus' Crucifixion Beatings and the Book of Proverbs

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This chapter provides foundational points for the theological argument of the whole study. It begins by identifying the central thesis that Jesus was beaten as a fool in order to demonstrate the wisdom of God. This argument focuses on the relationship between the theme of “beating the fool” in the book of Proverbs and the Passion of Christ. This introductory chapter establishes important terminology and concepts that are used to support this conclusion. One of the most important focal points of this chapter is the description of the canonical reading of Christian scripture that reads the Old and New Testaments as one unified book.

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Wenkel, D.H. (2017). Introduction. In: Jesus' Crucifixion Beatings and the Book of Proverbs. Palgrave Macmillan, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-48270-5_1

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