Summary of Lois Tverberg's Reading the Bible with Rabbi Jesus

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#1 The author’s goal is to help you mentally transport yourself back in time to read the Bible as one of Jesus’ first-century disciples. He wants to help you appreciate the Bible’s original Middle Eastern setting.

#2 Embracing Jesus’ Jewishness is a recent development in Christian scholarship. It has been realized that Jesus was overly cast within Greco-Roman society, to the neglect of his Jewish context. Seeing him in his context sheds new light on his ministry and deepens our understanding of his words.

#3 I grew up believing that the Bible was the inspired Word of God, but I found it more confusing than inspiring. The last quarter of the Bible, starting with the book of Matthew, was dog-eared, rippled with coffee mug circles, and filled with highlighting and thoughts penciled into the margins.

#4 The site of Emmaus is unknown, but it is believed to be located near Motza, a village just northwest of Jerusalem. Its ancient name was Ha-motza, meaning the spring, which was translated into Greek as Em-ma-oos, or Emmaus.

• Language: English
• Publisher: IRB Media
• Release date: Jul 18, 2022
• ISBN: 9798822548145

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#1

The author’s goal is to help you mentally transport yourself back in time to read the Bible as one of Jesus’ first-century disciples. He wants to help you appreciate the Bible’s original Middle Eastern setting.

#2

Embracing Jesus’ Jewishness is a recent development in Christian scholarship. It has been realized that Jesus was overly cast within Greco-Roman society, to the neglect of his Jewish context. Seeing him in his context sheds new light on his ministry and deepens our understanding of his words.

#3

I grew up believing that the Bible was the inspired Word of God, but I found it more confusing than inspiring. The last quarter of the Bible, starting with the book of Matthew, was dog-eared, rippled with coffee mug circles, and filled with highlighting and thoughts penciled into the margins.

#4

The site of Emmaus is unknown, but it is believed to be located near Motza, a village just northwest of Jerusalem. Its ancient name was Ha-motza, meaning the spring, which was translated into Greek as Em-ma-oos, or Emmaus.

#5

The author was astounded to discover that the most difficult parts of the Bible to understand were the ones that Jesus would quote from the most. His favorite books to quote from were Deuteronomy and Isaiah, and he quoted from them a lot.

#6

The Bible is a foreign land to us, but it’s not so surprising considering what happened only a few weeks after the Emmaus conversation. God’s Spirit poured out on the disciples and turned them into translators. They were able to communicate their message to different societies and languages.

#7

We will listen again with first-century ears to the way Jesus spoke to his contemporaries, making it clear that God’s promises are fulfilled in him. We will examine how Jesus fulfilled the expectations