The Messiah Confrontation2023 Top Ten Book from the Academy of Parish Clergy The Messiah Confrontation casts new and fascinating light on why Jesus was killed. Grounded in meticulous research on the messianism debates in the Bible and during the Second Temple period, biblical scholar Israel Knohl argues that Jesuss trial was in reality a dramatic clash between two Jewish groups holding opposing ideologies of messianism and anti messianism, with both ideologies running through