Reading List, April Update

1. M. Balme, G. Lawall, L. Miraglia, T.F. Bórri, Athenaze: Introduzione al greco antico, Vol. 1

2. Bella Bergman, ed., Hebrew: A Language Course, Level 1

3. Eric H. Cline, After 1177 BC: The Survival of Civilizations

4. James W. Barker, Writing and Rewriting the Gospels: John and the Synoptics

5. M. Balme, G. Lawall, L. Miraglia, T.F. Bórri, Athenaze: Introduzione al greco antico, Vol. 2

Jesus’s Triumphus

Palm Sunday is obviously meant to evoke the prophecy in Zechariah about the king coming humbly, seated on an ass; but equally obviously, and implicit in its other name, the Triumphal Entry, is that Jesus is here doing what many a Roman general and emperor had done, travelling up the via Sacra through the forum and up the Capitoline to Jupiter’s Temple there in the wake of a grand military victory. Whatever this means for the historicity of the episode, it is worth pointing out …