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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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Promised Son
There are threads in the Bible that we are pointing out - the word root, David the icon, and the Son of Man apocalyptic figure - these...
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Biblical Roots
Some historians, famously Graetz who we mentioned earlier, could only think in terms of Messianic hope, some sort of nationalistic hope....
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Before the New Testament
If someone were to come from a land where the Monotheistic religions were totally unknown, and this person was given the Hebrew Bible to...
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Theory of Messianism (Scholem) 3
Again continuing the famous points of Scholem re messianism: Acute Paradoxical Going deeper into theory of messianism, Scholem analyzes...
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Theory of Messianism (Scholem) 2
Scholem's famous points re messianism worth knowing continued: Historical Progression In a nutshell, Scholem laid out a historical...
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Theory of Messianism (Scholem) 1
Where does the discussion among modern historians begin as they seek out the question, what is messianism? Mentioned earlier was the...
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Historical Discourse
If you were to start studying 'messianism' on your own - instead of this series, or in addition to it, you would just start reading...
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