PROFESSOR AMY-JILL LEVINE (Co-Editor The Jewish Annotated New Testament): Unless Christian preachers, teachers, Bible study leaders know about first-century Judaism, often what happens is Jesus gets yanked out of his Jewish context, and he becomes the only Jew who’s compassionate toward women, interested in adapting Torah, interested in adapting the law to the needs of the contemporary community, the only Jew interested in peace among a group of very bellicose, warlike Jews.
Posted on: Fri, 05 Jul 2013 01:35:58 +0000
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