Tag: Jew
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Rethinking Jesus (01) In the Beginning …
As a follow-on from my series about God, I want to explore what I currently think and feel about Jesus of Nazareth. If I regard ‘God’ as not so much a person as a process, as transcendental ‘Ground-of-Being-Itself’, what implications does this have for how I see Jesus? Let’s forget what 20 succeeding centuries have […]
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Because Jesus was a Jew …
At some point, possibly in the 27 CE, beside the river Jordan, in a part of the world known to its Roman overlords as Palestine, a charismatic preacher, John by name, was holding forth to all who would listen to him. He was also baptising those who found themselves agreeing with his message, some of […]
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An Unexpected Reversal
In a previous post, I wrote about Jesus agreeing with the teaching of John the Baptist, joining his movement, and being baptised by him in the river Jordan. John, however, was arrested and executed. Jesus formed his own movement, and continued with the same teaching, which is summed up near the beginning of Mark’s Gospel […]
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A Jewish Jesus and his God
I’m exploring the possible implications of the fact that Jesus of Nazareth wasn’t a 21st century Western Christian, but a deeply committed 1st century Palestinian Jew. As such, he’d have recited the ‘Shema’, from Deuteronomy 6. In English Bibles this is usually translated as ‘Hear, O Israel. The LORD is God. The LORD is one.” […]
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