Come study at the feet of Jesus with Jerusalem Perspective (JP). Together we’ll explore the historical, cultural, religious and linguistic contexts of the life and teachings of Jesus to better understand Jesus’ message and his place in first-century Jewish society.
Featured Article:
Why did the crowds in Jerusalem prefer to release Barabbas, a notorious criminal, over Jesus? Professor Ze’ev Safrai of the Bar Ilan University in Tel Aviv discusses this question in the latest addition to JP’s Character Profile series, “Who Was ‘Bar-Abba’?” a new JP article.
JP’s Most Recent Articles:
- Character Profile: Who Was ‘Bar-Abba’?
- High Priests of the Roman Period in Rabbinic Sources
- The So-called ‘Privilegium Paschale’ in Light of Jewish Sources
- Review and Reflections Upon: The Aryan Jesus by Susannah Heschel
- Love That Costs: Jesus, the Good Samaritan, and the Enemy Next Door
- The Good Tidings of John the Baptist: An Eschatological Priestly Messiah Coming on the Clouds of the Spirit
- Candy Bars and Jesus: Taking a Risk on Jon Guerra
- A Satisfied Mind: Jesus’ Attitude Toward Wealth
- Locating Jesus’ Place on the Political-Ideological Spectrum of Second Temple Jewish Society
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JP’s Most Recent Blog Posts:
- The Arc Bends: The Purpose of Eschatology—An Easter MeditationThe Gospel of the Kingdom does not give us license to sit out the struggle knowing that it’s all going to turn out for the best.
- Sidebar: The Temple Warning InscriptionsA description of the inscriptions warning Gentiles not to enter the Temple in Jerusalem.
- Book Review: Brad Young’s Jesus and His Jewish ParablesYoung argues that the best way to understand what Jesus was teaching in his parables is to try to hear him as he spoke to his people.
- Test Your JP KnowledgeThe topic of each of each question has been addressed in a Jerusalem Perspective article.
In addition to exploring Jesus’ ancient contexts, JP promotes a new approach to the Synoptic Gospels. This approach, pioneered by Jewish and Christian scholars in Jerusalem, uses Hebrew reconstruction as a tool for recovering the earliest forms of Jesus’ sayings.
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The Life of Yeshua (LOY) project utilizes Robert Lindsey’s solution to the Synoptic Problem to reconstruct the conjectured Greek and Hebrew sources behind the Gospels of Matthew, Mark and Luke in order to better understand the stories of Jesus’ life and the meaning of his teachings.
Most Recent Life of Yeshua Posts:
- Places of HonorA lesson in humility.
- Yeshua Attends to the CrowdsA reconstruction of the narrative setting of Jesus’ sermon on Torah and the Kingdom of Heaven.
- Man’s Contractured ArmHow did Jesus balance the need to honor the Sabbath with the need to help people who were suffering?
- Refusing John the BaptistAn early Christian critique of those who rejected John the Baptist and his message.
