I've been reading and watching quite a bit of James Tabor. He referred me to Dale Alison, a scholar with whom I'm familiar but was hitherto unaware of his book Jesus of Nazareth: Millenarian Prophet.
"Finally, a book that trumpets the return of the apocalyptic Jesus! Allison mounts a powerful counterattack against those who have spurned the view . . . that Jesus expected an imminent transformation in history as we know it. . . . Allison has produced a persuasive argument that will not be easily overturned and must not be ignored." ---Bart D. Ehrman University of North Carolina
Jesus expected an imminent transformation in history as we know it. Sound familiar? Films like 'Leave the World Behind'. Survivalists, doomsday soothsayers...I mean, c'mon, the news is prepped to warn us of a coming apocalypse. Tabor, himself, speaks candidly about preferring the Hebrew mode of living in this world, adopting Tikkun Olam and fixing the world so that the wolf (Mandela Effect?) lies down with the lamb.
And yet, the doomsday scribes announcing the problem of 'climate change' are predicting imminent change coming very very soon.
I'm starting to see that Climate Change is to Hebraism, what Jesus's Second Coming is to Hellenism. Or rather, that the threat of imminent change is a Hellenistic fear, demanding the need for salvation from this earth, that has bled over into Hebraic Tikkun Olanism and become a mixture of 'living in harmony' and 'the end is nigh' apocalyptic thinking.
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