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In addition to exploring Jesus’ ancient contexts, JP promotes a new approach to the Synoptic Gospels. This approach, pioneered by Jewish and Christian scholars in Jerusalem, uses Hebrew reconstruction as a tool for recovering the earliest forms of Jesus’ sayings.

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The Life of Yeshua (LOY) project utilizes Robert Lindsey’s solution to the Synoptic Problem to reconstruct the conjectured Greek and Hebrew sources behind the Gospels of Matthew, Mark and Luke in order to better understand the stories of Jesus’ life and the meaning of his teachings.

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    How Jesus’ cryptic warning has given rise to an array of conflicting interpretations. What did Jesus actually intend?
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    In Making a Show Jesus prioritizes social justice over personal piety.
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    For Jesus, working for social justice was an act of redemption with cosmic implications.
  • Places of Honor

    A lesson in humility.

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