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The Temple Mount
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Jesus and the Enigmatic Green Tree by Bivin, David Value of Rabbinic Literature as an Historical Source, The by Safrai, Shmuel Keys of the Kingdom: Allusion to Divinity? by Payne, Clifton H. Jr. Surprise of Finding Anti-Semitism in the Heart of the Early Church Fathers, The by Sharon, Grace Theological Significance of the Parable in Rabbinic Literature and the New Testament, The by Petuchowski, Jakob J. Short Response to Steven Notley’s “Let the One Who Has Ears to Hear”, A by Frankovic, Joseph Interview with Dwight A. Pryor, An by Pryor, Dwight
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The Sea of Galilee
by Todd Bolen
According to the gospels, Jesus’ earthly ministry centered around the Sea of Galilee. While important events occurred in Jerusalem, the Lord spent most of the three years of his ministry along the shore of this freshwater lake. Here he gave more than half of his parables and here he performed most of his miracles.
Capernaum on the northwestern shore became
Jesus’ “hometown” throughout his ministry. Three of his disciples hailed from Bethsaida, located only a few miles from Capernaum. These two cities, together with
Chorazin 2 miles inland from Capernaum, were
condemned by Jesus for receiving much but believing little. A famous follower of Christ was Mary of Magdala, a town on the lake’s western shore. Early Christians hallowed the lakeside, building churches commemorating the feeding of the five thousand, the Sermon on the Mount, the primacy of Peter, and the house of Peter.[more] |
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Mt. of Precipitation in Nazareth
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 Jesus, Rabbi And Lord (electronic format)
In 1945, Robert L. Lindsey from Norman, Oklahoma, found himself pastor of a small Baptist congregation in Jerusalem, Israel. With his Hebrew-speaking congregants in mind, he began a translation of the Greek texts of Matthew, Mark and Luke and soon concluded there must lie behind these Gospel - even if distantly - an early Hebrew story of Jesus. To his surprise, he also found that Luke almost always showed Greek texts that could easily be translated literally to Hebrew. The same was true of Matthew, wherever he was not copying Mark's Gospel.
In 1962, Lindsey met Professor David Flusser of the Hebrew University in Jerusalem, and the two pursued the question of whether we can get back to the earliest Semitic story and words of Jesus.
"It is clear," say Lindsey and Flusser, "that our synoptic texts originated in a Hebrew biography of Jesus, probably written by the Matthew of tradition, which was translated to Greek. The texts of Matthew, Mark and Luke are too Hebraic to have descended from a Greek original, as many scholars mistakenly think today. Happily, if we use the right tools, we can still hear Jesus speak as his fellow Jews of the first century heard him."
Lindsey tells in this book the warm, personal account of how he and Flusser struggled over many years to discover the earliest form of Jesus' words and narrative of his life. They believe that the records, when properly analyzed and studied, show us an authentic picture of Jesus interacting with the people of Jerusalem and Galilee. Jesus clearly heads a movement, the "Kingdom of Heaven," and is a Divine figure whose actions and words are fully Messianic.
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