Tuesday, June 17, 2014
does Jesus' whip reach back to Mishnah and Day of Atonement?
Buck Eschaton comments:
He is is correct about the Mishnah reference (link).
See also Babylonian Tractate on Day of Atonement here .
How far, though, can we apply this to Jesus' use of a whip in the temple cleansing?
Just a note regarding Jesus cleansing the Temple with a whip. In the Mishnah, I believe, it instructs the High Priest, that during the Day Atonement he should spread the blood around the temple in a whip-like motion. The cleansing of the Temple thus] represented the cleansing of the earth, healing the damage that had been done. link
He is is correct about the Mishnah reference (link).
See also Babylonian Tractate on Day of Atonement here .
How far, though, can we apply this to Jesus' use of a whip in the temple cleansing?
Bruner on "the temple chastening and the temple curing"
From Matthew, The Churchbook:
We can only guess at the reasons for Jesus' disgust: perhaps it was commercial abuse (but see Abrahams et al..), perhaps it was the sellers' location..court of Gentiles; impeding Gentile worship, and so suggesting that Gentile 'foreigners' were not all that important — a subtle racism or ethnocentrism..perhaps it was because Jesus sought to fulfill the final and climactic verse of Zechariah..
...Jerome thought that cleansing of the temple was the most miraculous of all Jesus' signs..link
We can only guess at the reasons for Jesus' disgust: perhaps it was commercial abuse (but see Abrahams et al..), perhaps it was the sellers' location..court of Gentiles; impeding Gentile worship, and so suggesting that Gentile 'foreigners' were not all that important — a subtle racism or ethnocentrism..perhaps it was because Jesus sought to fulfill the final and climactic verse of Zechariah..
...Jerome thought that cleansing of the temple was the most miraculous of all Jesus' signs..link
Dave Matthews: "when i get home/i wanna believe in Jesus"
"Time Bomb" (Dave Matthews Band) ..lyrics at bottom.
studio version:
live version; wow:
acoustic with Tim Reynolds:
studio version:
live version; wow:
acoustic with Tim Reynolds:
If I'm a ticking time bomb
Waiting to blow my top
No one would ever know
Not until I blew up
Waiting to blow my top
No one would ever know
Not until I blew up
No one would believe it
He was such a normal man
Shake their heads and wonder why
He was such a normal man
Shake their heads and wonder why
If Martians fell from the sky
What would that do to God?
Would we put the weapon down
Or aim it up at the sky
What would that do to God?
Would we put the weapon down
Or aim it up at the sky
No one would believe it
Except the f#@king nut jobs
They'd laugh and cry
"We told you so!"
Except the f#@king nut jobs
They'd laugh and cry
"We told you so!"
Baby when I get home
I want to believe in Jesus
Hammer in the final nail
Help me pick up the pieces
I want to believe in Jesus
Hammer in the final nail
Help me pick up the pieces
When everything starts to fall
So fast that it terrifies you
When will you hit the wall?
Are you gonna learn to fly?
So fast that it terrifies you
When will you hit the wall?
Are you gonna learn to fly?
No one would believe it
Except for all the people
Watching as you fly away
Except for all the people
Watching as you fly away
Baby when I get home
I want to pick up those pieces
Hammer in the final nail
And lean me up against Jesus
I want to pick up those pieces
Hammer in the final nail
And lean me up against Jesus
Baby when I get home
I want to believe in Jesus
Hammer in the final nail
Help me pick up the pieces
I want to believe in Jesus
Hammer in the final nail
Help me pick up the pieces
Baby when I get home
Help me pick up the pieces
Hammer in the final nail
I wanna believe in Jesus!!
Help me pick up the pieces
Hammer in the final nail
I wanna believe in Jesus!!
NT Wright on same-sex marriage
on same-sex marriage:
full program here
older clip here :N.T. Wright on Debate about Homosexuality 4
full program here
older clip here :N.T. Wright on Debate about Homosexuality 4
is it a curse for Jews to live by the Law?
From Strangers and Neighbors: What I Have Learned About Christianity by Living Among Orthodox Jews, by Maria Poggi Johnson:
...Paul says that "the letter kills, but the Spirit gives life." (2 Cor 3:6) He says that to live by the Law is slavery and to live by the Spirit is to live freely as loving children. He even says that those that rely on the works of the law are under a curse, and that Christ redeemed us from the curse of the Law. These phrases are deep in the Christian consciousness ansd have probably been the principal sources for the Church's ideas about Judaism.But what Christians, even those who ought to know better, have too often forgotten is that when Paul said these things, he wasn't writing to Jews or about Jews. He was writing to and about Gentile Christians who had been argued or bullied into thinking that they had to keep the law; that before they could be Christians, they had to be Jews.
For these Gentile followers of Jesus to submit themselves to the stringent demands of a covenant not their own would have indeed been slavery. But for the Jews, living a Torah life is, well, something else--something that I don't really understand...p. 88, see context
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