Mobile Ed: NT390 Jesus as Rabbi: The Jewish Context of the Life of Jesus (8 hour course - audio)
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, 2016
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Overview
Explore the words of Jesus through the context of His conversations with other Jews. From the role of ancient rabbis and rabbinic literature to portrayals of Jesus in the Talmud, Dr. Instone-Brewer reveals how Jesus’ teachings were influenced by His Jewish life. We see Jesus attending the Jewish festivals, interacting with the Jewish leaders and laypeople and teaching them about the Father that He came from, was representing, and was going back to.
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Course Outline
Introduction
- Introducing the Speaker and the Course
Unit 1: The Rabbis
- Diversity in Judaism
- Evidence for Jewish Life
- The Nature of Oral Texts
- The Schools of Hillel and Shammai
- Preserving and Editing the Tradition
- Significance of the Rabbinic Traditions
- Who Were the Rabbis?
- Unification after 70 CE
- Fragmented Judaism in the First Century
- The Influence of the Rabbis in New Testament Times
Unit 2: Rabbinic Literature
- What Is Rabbinic Literature?
- The Collections
- Navigating Halakic Material
- The Rabbis of Rabbinic Literature
- Dating the Rabbinic Materials
- An Example: What Can Be Carried on the Sabbath
- Key Scholars of the Tradition
Unit 3: Jesus in the Talmud
- Printing and Censorship
- The Printed Talmud
- Censored Passages
- Censored Arrest Warrant
- Dating the Talmudic Tradition about Jesus
- Analyzing Textual Clues
- Digging into the Trial Traditions
- Correcting the Historical Core
- The Origin of the Tradition
Unit 4: Jesus’ Halakic Teaching
- Comparing the Teaching of Jesus and the Rabbis
- Disciples of Jesus the Rabbi
- The Disciple Copies the Master
- Traits of Nonacademic Disciples
- Jesus’ Halakic Teaching on Clean and Unclean
- Jesus’ Public and Private Teaching
- Parallels between Jesus and Yohanan ben Zakkai
- Jesus on Corban
- Jesus in Translation
- Jesus’ Halakah
- Conclusion: Jesus and Halakah
Unit 5: Jesus’ Commandments
- The Law and Layers of Tradition
- The Fence around the Law
- Jesus’ Two Commandments
- The Yoke of the Kingdom
- The Yoke of Commandments and the Early Church
- Laws That Jesus Kept
- “But I Tell You …”
- Jesus and the Sabbath
- Laws That Jesus Rejected
- Fulfilling the Law
Unit 6: Jesus’ Haggadic Teaching
- First-Century Sermons
- Jesus’ Sermon at Nazareth
- Identifying the Links in Jesus’ Sermon
- Parables
- Rabbinic Parable about Legalism
- A Parable Jesus Heard
- Moral or Spiritual Sayings
- Sayings in Mishnah Avot
Unit 7: Jesus’ Jewish Prayers
- The Value of Studying Prayers
- Prayer in Judaism
- The Oldest Amidah
- The Text of the Amidah
- The Amidah in Temple Worship
- New Testament Allusions to the Amidah
- The “Blessing” for the Heretics
- The Shorter Abstract of the Amidah
- The Lord’s Prayer
- God as Father
- Daily Bread
- Demanding Forgiveness
- Tempting and Testing
- Forever and Ever
Unit 8: Sin and Salvation
- Is Sin Important?
- The Idea of Sin in the Gospels
- John’s Baptism
- Day of Atonement
- The Unforgivable Sin
- Being Brought to Repentance
- Forgiving Others
- Jesus’ Teaching on Hell
- Three Groups at Judgment
- Hell according to the Qumran Group
- Jesus’ Distinctive Teaching on Hell
- Jesus’ Two Ways
Unit 9: Jesus’ Miracles & Exorcisms
- Healings and Miracles in the Ancient World
- Miracles and Gullibility
- Jewish Miracle Workers
- Contrasts with Jesus’ Healings
- Feeding Thousands
- First-Century Jewish Etiquette
- Tithing Bread
- Exorcisms in Jewish Literature
- Exorcisms of Jesus
- Exorcisms by Others
- Exorcisms after the New Testament
Unit 10: Jesus’ Festival Visits
- Festivals in First-Century Judaism
- Jesus’ First Festival
- Jesus at the Festival of Tabernacles
- Water and Light at Tabernacles
- Palm Sunday
- Did Jesus Keep Passover?
- The Timing of Passover in the Gospels
- Evidence for Two Passovers
- Jesus’ Passover Meal
Conclusion
- Summary of the Course
Product Details
- Title: NT390 Jesus as Rabbi: The Jewish Context of the Life of Jesus (audio)
- Instructor: Dr. David Instone-Brewer
- Publisher: Lexham Press
- Publication Date: 2016
- Product Type: Logos Mobile Education
- Resource Type: Courseware, including transcripts, audio, and video resources
- Resource Type: Audio
- Length: 8 hours
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Dr. David Instone-Brewer graduated from South Wales Baptist College with the highest marks in that college’s history, and later earned his PhD from Cambridge University, where he studied early rabbinic exegesis. Dr. Instone-Brewer ministered at the Llanishen Baptist Church in Cardiff for five years, and is now research fellow and technical officer for Tyndale House, which is, arguably, among the three best libraries in the world for biblical studies.
Specializing in rabbinic studies, Dr. Instone-Brewer has been a regular contributor to Christianity magazine, and has written several books, including Traditions of the Rabbis from the Era of the New Testament.
Reviews
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Jeff O'Neal
2/12/2023
I'm at lesson segment 72, "John's Baptism". And I have reached my limit -- my BS meter is pegged. IB spouts out swill like, "it’s important to ask why John’s baptism was so popular. Because actually it was more popular than Jesus, and John was more well-known than Jesus even later in Acts." And this: "Christianity took over this baptism, though with some reticence and with some changes. In John’s Gospel, you got the hint that Jesus was not entirely behind the idea of baptism." Now when Jesus learned that the Pharisees had heard that Jesus was making and baptizing more disciples than John 2(although Jesus himself did not baptize, but only his disciples), 3 he left Judea and departed again for Galilee.1 1 The Holy Bible: English Standard Version (Jn 4:1–3). (2016). Crossway Bibles. Now a discussion arose between some of John’s disciples and a Jew over purification. 26 And they came to John and said to him, “Rabbi, he who was with you across the Jordan, to whom you bore witness—look, he is baptizing, and all are going to him.” 27 John answered, “A person cannot receive even one thing unless it is given him from heaven. 28 You yourselves bear me witness, that I said, ‘I am not the Christ, but I have been sent before him.’ 29 The one who has the bride is the bridegroom. The friend of the bridegroom, who stands and hears him, rejoices greatly at the bridegroom’s voice. Therefore this joy of mine is now complete. 30 He must increase, but I must decrease.” 1 1 The Holy Bible: English Standard Version (Jn 3:25–30). (2016). Crossway Bibles. As Christianity was in its infancy, there were, of course, areas where John was better known as he came to “make straight the paths for Jesus”. But John clearly understood and proclaimed that he was the lesser and Jesus was the Greater -- John’s work was all about Jesus and His Good News. It is a total travesty the way IB perverts this. IB mentions it but finds a way to diminish Jesus' final instructions to His disciple in what has come to be known as The Great Commission: “All authority in heaven and on earth has been given to me. 19 Go therefore and make disciples of all nations, baptizing them in the name of the Father and of the Son and of the Holy Spirit, 20 teaching them to observe all that I have commanded you. And behold, I am with you always, to the end of the age.” The Holy Bible: English Standard Version (Mt 28:18–20). (2016). Crossway Bibles. This pile of steaming rubbish is just one of many heretical forays of IB. I'm done with his garbage!
