Jewish Insights into Scripture Part 1 is filled with amazing nuggets that help you read familiar stories in a new light. When you sign up, you need to be ready to have the traditional interpretations of familiar passages discussed and often challenged to the core. In this episode we discuss two of the many insights from the course.

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What does it mean to listen as the land speaks? Dr. Parker gives specific examples of how understanding the land will help us all listen to the secrets it has to tell. We also hear about how knowing the land changes the way we understand who God is and what he wants from his people. Dr. Parker explains how the land of inheritance is a vulnerable place to live and how the land becomes an example to the people of how to trust God.
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An outtake from our pre-recording is available at the end of the episode.

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Do we adequately know the background of the Jewishness of the Gospel of Matthew? Dr. Schaser helps us understand the extra biblical literary sources that illuminate how Jesus is portrayed in the gospel; from festivals to the Sermon on the Mount.

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It is December and Christians are entering the Advent season as a time to remember the birth of Jesus. This is the perfect time to think about the Jewishness of the gospels. We focus this week on Matthew 1–4 which are filled with fascinating details.

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Pinchas Shir talks about the Essenes in this episode, but if you want more details, enroll in our course  The Shadow of the Essenes in the New Testament. We spend this episode talking about why the Essenes refused to worship at the Temple in Jerusalem and why they seem to disassociate themselves from the rest of society. In contrast, the Zealots were ready to pick up their swords to fight Rome.

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We start with the Hasidim and discuss how the Pharisees emerged from this group. While the Sadducees were Temple-focused, the Pharisees were purity-in-life focused. They were an of-the-people-for-the-people kind of group scattered throughout the diaspora. Pinchas Shir helps us understand how the Pharisees used Scripture and why they seem to be arguing with Jesus all the time.

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What was Judaism like in the Second Temple period? It was diverse. Very diverse. This week Pinchas Shir tells us about where that diversity came from and why we only talk about four of the more than ten divisions of Judaism from that time. We end up focusing on the Temple-oriented Sadducees who had positions of power and of political connection. But do we have their own writings?

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To engage the Intertestamental History and how it impacts the way we read the gospel, enroll in the soon to be released course Listening to the Land of the Bible Part 2 at: https://israelbiblecenter.com/courses/listening-to-the-land-of-the-bible-ii/
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