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The Dilemma of the Church and Ethnic Israel
I've spent my whole career trying to read the Bible as a first century Jewish document so I think I'm on board with this. It's partly because we Western Christians haven't spotted the temple resonances of so much of the New Testament, he says. Once you explore them there is no room for saying let's build the new temple or strike out the letter to Hebrews for start which says they were finished with Jesus. This thing rushes into fillet that's very unhealthy it's bad as a method of doing theology and the results are if anything worse according to him.