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Sages in Context
In these posts regarding Talmudic discussions of messianic proportions, I wanted to provide an impression, a taste for this type of...
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Sequential Dilemmas
Through the next passages there are three big questions or dilemmas that are rightfully brought to the fore: One question is, why do we...
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When in Rome
What is interesting for us as readers of messianism developing, is to observe how the ideas and themes unfold and grow from the Bible...
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Character Aspects
We previously got a taste of Talmud writing style and its dealings with messianic ideas. It is associative inconsistent writing. Items...
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Theological Opening
The Talmud and parallel rabbinical literature, include all sorts of passages engaging directly with messianic ideas and messianic texts....
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Deferred Engagement
We are tracing messianic footseps in early rabbinic literature. We are curious how the messianic ideas developed and evolved. We found...
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Elephant in the Room
If you have lasted this long, and are familiar with Bar Kochva, you are surely biting your tongue saying, what about Bar Kochva? He was...
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Scarce Beginnings
Any word on messianism in the early rabbinic literature? Here is where it gets interesting. Let’s start with the translations. As...
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Rabbinic Literature
This next chapter in the evolution of messianism is an exciting one. We will enter the world of rabbinic literature, in lieu of what we...
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Trial and Crucifixion
We will look finally at the trial before the high priests and the crucifixion itself. In these famous parts of the Jesus narrative, we...
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Creeping Death
Chapter 14: The drama of the narrative of Jesus in the Gospel peaks at his death. All the previous content has led to this point, from...
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Political-Theological Clashing
As Jesus approached Jerusalem, he is associated by others as Son of David, and then he associates himself in effect by riding on the colt...
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Jerusalem SyndromeÂ
We have a somewhat complicated and sensitive aspect to now introduce. This is a matter of self-consciousness, in the context of...
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Ascending Jerusalem
So far Jesus has been in the Galilee. His disciples and a following make their way through the Jordan valley en route to Jerusalem, and...
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Unfolding Career
So the special man who comes from Nazareth is of age and he has been baptized and somehow associated with or recognized by the famous...
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Gospel of Sonship
I want you to think of the Gospels differently. Instead of an early candidate of an existing clear concept of ‘Messiah’, whether false or...
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Spiritual Interests
My background is in Evangelical Christianity and traditional Judaism. I spent a good few years at the Hebrew University of Jerusalem...
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The Threshold
Speaking of this era and literature means after the biblical era, post-biblical literature , through the 1st century AD. Writings from...
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Son of Man
Before we cross the threshold of the Hebrew Bible into the New Testament and 2nd Temple Literature category, we complete the triple...
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Return from Exile
As the biblical narrator tells what follows the story of David, the kings and wars of Israel, through the Assyrian assault, the...
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