Introduction

Ongrabake: Jesus seems to have understood himself, or at least those around him,. as ciros. If you remember, that's a turning point in the course of history. And jesus saw himself as such a chiros. Whether or not he saw himself as the chiros that was known as the jewish messiah is again controversial. I don't need that for the purposes of my argument. It seems, though, that he had a sense of himself as deeply participating in the way in which god was directing and involving himself in thecourse of history.