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Question that was published in the “Readers’ Perspective” column of Jerusalem Perspective 22 (Sept.-Oct. 1989): 2. Why is your research focused on the Synoptic Gospels? Why leave out the Gospel of John? —A reader in Rochester, New York, U.S.A. The Synoptic Gospels (Matthew, Mark and Luke) are so similar in form and content that it …
In 1969, as excavators cleared centuries of debris away from the western wall of the Temple Mount, they made an unusual discovery. On the face of a monumental stone just above the level of the Byzantine street was a crude inscription in a Hebrew script typical of the Byzantine period: וראיתם ושש לבכם ועצמותם כדשא …
Final part of a four-part series on the Hebrew word Israel.
Wilson offers a number of helpful suggestions that will enable Christians to adopt “a Hebraic orientation toward life and the world.”
This Greek inscription provides evidence of the accommodations that were provided in Jerusalem for pilgrims.
The Sea of Galilee was the scene of most of Jesus’ ministry. Fishermen and sailors were his earliest followers, and it was to them that he first preached, standing on the shore of the lake.
During the Second Temple period pilgrimage was associated with the festivals of Passover, Shavuot and Sukkot.
There are many expressions in the Greek texts of Matthew, Mark and Luke that seem to derive from Hebrew idioms. These are phrases that mean something different from the literal meaning of the words they use. Every language has its own idioms, many of which seem strange when translated literally out of their native setting.
The late Dr. Robert Lindsey, pioneer translator of the Gospels into modern Hebrew, synoptic researcher and pastor of Jerusalem’s Narkis Street Congregation, resided in Israel for over forty years. His discoveries challenge many conclusions of New Testament scholarship from the past two hundred years. Lindsey created a new approach to the study of the Synoptic Gospels. Here, Lindsey provides an introduction to the field of synoptic studies and the “Synoptic Problem.”
