Jesus' Entry into Jerusalem: In the Context of Lukan Theology and the Politics of His Day

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Jesus' Entry into Jerusalem: In the Context of Lukan Theology and the Politics of His Day. By Brent Kinman. New York: Brill, 1995, 223 pp., $75.00.

Kinman's slightly revised dissertation from the University of Cambridge (1993, supervised by M. Hooker) attempts to analyze both the context and content of Jesus' entry in Jerusalem in Luke's gospel (Luke 19:28-48). His contention is that Luke depoliticizes the event so that Jesus' entry has little if no specific political implications for the ruling Roman empire.

Kinman unfolds his thesis as follows: Chapter 1 introduces the reader to the purpose of this study, which is to demonstrate that "Luke has moulded both the context …