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Historicity of the Cleansing of the Temple

Summary/Abstract: The story of the so-called Cleansing of the Temple is a narrative that has generated a lot of scholarly interest and discussion among New Testament scholars in recent years. Those that look up on this narrative not as a cleansing, but as a prophetic sign of the Temple's destruction, prefer to call it “Jesus’ Temple Act”, or “the Temple incident”. Some critics have suggested that the episode might not have taken place. They view it as a Markan fabrication, referring either to Zealotic (fanatical?) action in the Temple during the war, or being an element in Mark’s anti-Temple narrative. This paper takes a look at these diff erent suggestions, as well as other arguments that are in favour of the authenticity of the story.

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