My first visit to the Western Wall, which happened only days ago, was an exceptionally moving experience.
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High Priests of the Roman Period in Rabbinic Sources
How and why are High Priests from the end of the Second Temple Period remembered in rabbinic sources?
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Sidebar: The Temple Warning Inscriptions
A description of the inscriptions warning Gentiles not to enter the Temple in Jerusalem.
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The Good Tidings of John the Baptist: An Eschatological Priestly Messiah Coming on the Clouds of the Spirit
I wish to highlight how John the Baptist’s priestly orientation also led to tension between Jesus and John the Baptist.
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Book Review: That I May Dwell Among Them: Incarnation and Atonement in the Tabernacle Narrative
Anderson’s book is a re-evaluation of Israel’s Temple and sacrifice, which JP readers are sure to enjoy.
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What’s Wrong with Contagious Purity? Debunking the Myth that Jesus Never Became Ritually Impure
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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Halakha in the Gospels
The Gospels describe Jesus and his followers as keeping halakha to a relatively high extent; they were a group to whom the law was important.
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Temple’s Destruction Foretold
Overhearing an innocent expression of appreciation for the beauty of the stones from which the Temple was constructed, Jesus uttered the prediction that the time was shortly to come when not one of those stones would remain in its place.
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Innocent Blood
How well-read was Jesus? The LOY segment entitled Innocent Blood probes the possibility that Jesus read and quoted a no-longer-extant Second Temple-period Jewish literary work that warned against violent religious extremism.
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Yeshua’s Testing
The LOY reconstruction and commentary on the story of Jesus’ temptation.
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