Jesus The Radical Pastor: JESUS' ISRAEL: MORE BLOODY THAN BLESSED
Every time you think you have a clear handle on the cultural context of Palestine in Jesus' day, someone comes along and shatters your illusions.
John Frye, in looking at a book by Robert Horsley, paints a word picture very different from that most followers of Jesus understand.
Yet it is that context not only in the area treated by Horsley, but of the setting, cultures, idioms and well... life of the everyday person of OT and NT times that opens the text up in a way far more illuminating than even the NIV Study BIble or Life Application notes ever did. (tongue firmly in cheek)
I'll add this to the list of "stuff I wasn't taght in seminary" and to the list of stuff I'll make sure the people I teach know.
Shalom,
David
That was some good stuff. It won't make you feel any better, but I wasn't taught that in seminary either.
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