The Jewish Gospel

BySkip Moen, Ph.D.

The beginning of the gospel of Jesus Christ, the Son of God.  Mark 1:1  NASB Son of God – Jewish orthodox rabbi Daniel Boyarin (yes, the Daniel Boyarin) wrote The Jewish Gospels, just published this year.  In it he makes the claim that the gospels are thoroughly Jewish, including the idea of a divine Messiah…

Pattern Paradigms

BySkip Moen, Ph.D.

The beginning of the gospel of Jesus Christ, the Son of God.  Mark 1:1  NASB Son of God – “What the sages have done with Scripture then becomes clear.  They have taken its narrative and discerned a pattern within it, and this pattern then has guided them in thinking about the present.  Whatever happens finds…