Two Kinds of Love in the Story of the Paralyzed Man

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Two kinds of love operate in the story of the paralyzed man. One kind of love is inclusive and redemptive, the other is exclusive and destructive. Which kind of love will prove victorious?

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What’s Wrong with Contagious Purity? Debunking the Myth that Jesus Never Became Ritually Impure

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The view that Jesus could not be affected by impurity and that Jesus was able to spread his purity to others is based on faulty assumptions and invalid inferences.

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Two Neglected Aspects of the Centurion’s Slave Pericope

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Ritual impurity and the tensions resulting from Roman imperialism are two aspects of the Centurion’s Slave pericope that often go overlooked.

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The Social Jesus: Beyond an Individualist Reading of the Capernaum Synagogue Incident

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In the social reading of the Capernaum Synagogue incident Jesus restores the tattered fabric of the community, exchanging the way things were for a newer and better way.

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Tangled up in Techēlet: Tzitzit (Ritual Tassels) in the Time of Jesus

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Although the wearing of tzitzit is enjoined in Scripture, we do not find records of its actual observance until the Second Temple period.

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