Wrapping up Jesus
A sample platter of Gospel x Rabbinics mashups
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We've been spending a while in Jesus Country, but to all things there must come an end. And yet, I do in so many ways feel like we're just getting warmed up. So please indulge me with one last post, with some miscellaneous Jesus and Rabbinics Bits and Bobs.
If you haven't read Part One and Part Two of this series, please do those first, because things will make a lot more sense if you do.
Today we'll be bouncing around. Topic to topic, Gospel to Gospel, all over the place.
You know where we are in the story:
We're reading Jesus as playing in the Pharisaic League, (mostly) on Team Hillel, arguing according to the mutually agreed-upon rules of the game.
Why? Because understanding how the Jews and Judaism may be situated in the Gospels should matter to Jews, and it should matter to Christians, and doing this kind of textual detective work is a great case study for anybody of any kind of background, I gander– in how assumptions can change with new information and context, to say nothing about better understanding one of the major religions trying to pull a theocracy these days.