The Jerusalem School of Synoptic Research grew out of a meeting between two scholars in Israel: a Jewish professor at the Hebrew University, and a Christian pastor at the Narkis Street Baptist Congregation in Jerusalem.
The late David Flusser, one of the world’s leading Jewish authorities on New Testament and Early Christianity, met the late Robert Lindsey in 1962. They both were studying the synoptic Gospels — Matthew, Mark and Luke — which present parallel accounts of the story of Jesus’ life.
Similar Conclusions
When Flusser and Lindsey compared notes, they found that their research had led them to many similar conclusions. They particularly shared the conviction that a knowledge of Hebrew and first-century Jewish culture was essential to a full understanding of the life of Jesus.
That meeting of minds and backgrounds was the impetus for the Jerusalem School, which has developed into an association of Jewish and Christian scholars who are studying Jesus’ sayings within the context of the language and culture in which Jesus lived.
In addition to Flusser, the original members of the Jerusalem School included another internationally recognized Jewish scholar from the Hebrew University: Shmuel Safrai, an authority on the history of the Mishnaic and Talmudic periods. Other members of the Jerusalem School who worked with these three pioneers were a number of scholars trained in Hebrew, Aramaic, Greek, Rabbinics, New Testament and other disciplines related to first-ce
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