I thought Jesus didn't predict his return. This scholar proved me wrong.

Did Jesus actually predict his own second coming — or did the early church invent it? I sat down with Dr. Tucker Ferda (Pittsburgh Theological Seminary) to talk about his book "Jesus and His Promised Second Coming: Jewish Eschatology and Christian Origins" — and what I found was one of the most honest and challenging historical arguments I've encountered. Turns out, scholars haven't actually been debating this question as seriously as they should. And the reason why goes all the way back to 17th century anti-Jewish prejudice. 📖 Tucker's Book: https://amzn.to/4l7qEoY (affiliate link) 🎓 Tucker's Faculty Page: https://www.religiousstudies.pitt.edu... 📄 Academia.edu: https://pts.academia.edu/TuckerFerda ━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━ Substack - https://substack.com/@cjcornthwaite Patreon -   / footnotefamous   📱 FOLLOW FOR MORE YouTube: @cjcornthwaite Instagram: @cjcornthwaite Website: cjcornthwaite.com Email: [email protected] 🎙️ FOOTNOTE FAMOUS (MY PODCAST) Conversations with the world’s top scholars of the Bible and Christian origins. 🔗https://www.footnotefamous.com/ OR Listen on your favorite streaming platform ᯤ Spotify - https://open.spotify.com/show/4lSzQzT... Apple Music - https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast... Audible - https://www.audible.ca/podcast/Footno... SUPPORT THE CHANNEL YouTube Memberships - C. J. Cornthwaite - YouTube Book a 1:1 Conversation With Me: https://www.cjcornthwaite.com/book-on... ━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━ 00:00 — Introduction: Tucker Ferda & the Book 01:45 — The Classroom Moment That Started It All 04:30 — Why There's a "Consensus of Silence" on Jesus' Return 07:00 — How Modern Scholars Explain Away the Second Coming 09:30 — PART 2: The Real Origin of the Problem 10:30 — How 17th Century Reformers Invented Jewish Stereotypes 14:00 — Luther, Calvin, and the Jewish/Christian Messianism Split 17:30 — Reimarus: The Scholar Who Made Jesus "Too Jewish" 20:00 — Three Streams of Modern Scholarship on Eschatology 23:00 — Tucker's Methodological Approach: Working Backwards 29:00 — PAUL: Our Earliest Evidence (1 Thessalonians) 35:00 — What 1 Corinthians 15 Tells Us About the Return 40:00 — THE GOSPELS: Mark's Eschatology 44:30 — Matthew, Luke, and John: Three Different Directions 50:00 — John the Baptist, Daniel 7, and the Jewish Background 57:00 — Did Jesus Anticipate His Own Death? The Historical Case 1:01:00 — The "Interim Period" Problem in Scholarship 1:03:00 — Final Thoughts & Where to Find Tucker's Work