Learning Objectives

Upon successful completion you should be able to:

• Explain what Jesus was seeking to accomplish through His prayers, His miracles, and His teachings about salvation and sin

• Hold an informed perspective on Jesus’ teaching for increased understanding and devotion

Course Outline

Introduction

• Introducing the Speaker and the Course

Unit 1: The Rabbis

• Diversity in Judaism

• Evidence for Jewish Life

• The Nature of Oral Texts

• The Schools of Hillel and Shammai

• Preserving and Editing the Tradition

• Significance of the Rabbinic Traditions

• Who Were the Rabbis?

• Unification after 70 CE

• Fragmented Judaism in the First Century

• The Influence of the Rabbis in New Testament Times

Unit 2: Rabbinic Literature

• What Is Rabbinic Literature?

• The Collections

• Navigating Halakic Material

• The Rabbis of Rabbinic Literature

• Dating the Rabbinic Materials

• An Example: What Can Be Carried on the Sabbath

• Key Scholars of the Tradition

Unit 3: Jesus in the Talmud

• Printing and Censorship

• The Printed Talmud

• Censored Passages

• Censored Arrest Warrant

• Dating the Talmudic Tradition about Jesus

• Analyzing Textual Clues

• Digging into the Trial Traditions

• Correcting the Historical Core

• The Origin of the Tradition

Unit 4: Jesus’ Halakic Teaching

• Comparing the Teaching of Jesus and the Rabbis

• Disciples of Jesus the Rabbi

• The Disciple Copies the Master

• Traits of Nonacademic Disciples

• Jesus’ Halakic Teaching on Clean and Unclean

• Jesus’ Public and Private Teaching

• Parallels between Jesus and Yohanan ben Zakkai

• Jesus on Corban

• Jesus in Translation

• Jesus’ Halakah

• Conclusion: Jesus and Halakah

Unit 5: Jesus’ Commandments

• The Law and Layers of Tradition

• The Fence around the Law

• Jesus’ Two Commandments

• The Yoke of the Kingdom

• The Yoke of Commandments and the Early Church

• Laws That Jesus Kept

• “But I Tell You …”

• Jesus and the Sabbath

• Laws That Jesus Rejected

• Fulfilling the Law

Unit 6: Jesus’ Haggadic Teaching

• First-Century Sermons

• Jesus’ Sermon at Nazareth

• Identifying the Links in Jesus’ Sermon

• Parables

• Rabbinic Parable about Legalism

• A Parable Jesus Heard

• Moral or Spiritual Sayings

• Sayings in Mishnah Avot

Unit 7: Jesus’ Jewish Prayers

• The Value of Studying Prayers

• Prayer in Judaism

• The Oldest Amidah

• The Text of the Amidah

• The Amidah in Temple Worship

• New Testament Allusions to the Amidah

• The “Blessing” for the Heretics

• The Shorter Abstract of the Amidah

• The Lord’s Prayer

• God as Father

• Daily Bread

• Demanding Forgiveness

• Tempting and Testing

• Forever and Ever

Unit 8: Sin and Salvation

• Is Sin Important?

• The Idea of Sin in the Gospels

• John’s Baptism

• Day of Atonement

• The Unforgivable Sin

• Being Brought to Repentance

• Forgiving Others

• Jesus’ Teaching on Hell

• Three Groups at Judgment

• Hell according to the Qumran Group

• Jesus’ Distinctive Teaching on Hell

• Jesus’ Two Ways

Unit 9: Jesus’ Miracles & Exorcisms

• Healings and Miracles in the Ancient World

• Miracles and Gullibility

• Jewish Miracle Workers

• Contrasts with Jesus’ Healings

• Feeding Thousands

• First-Century Jewish Etiquette

• Tithing Bread

• Exorcisms in Jewish Literature

• Exorcisms of Jesus

• Exorcisms by Others

• Exorcisms after the New Testament

Unit 10: Jesus’ Festival Visits

• Festivals in First-Century Judaism

• Jesus’ First Festival

• Jesus at the Festival of Tabernacles

• Water and Light at Tabernacles

• Palm Sunday

• Did Jesus Keep Passover?

• The Timing of Passover in the Gospels

• Evidence for Two Passovers

• Jesus’ Passover Meal

Conclusion

• Summary of the Course

Details

• Title: NT390 Jesus as Rabbi: The Jewish Context of the Life of Jesus

• Instructor: Dr. David Instone-Brewer

• Publisher: Lexham Press

• Publication Date: 2016

• Product Type: Logos Mobile Education

• Resource Type: Courseware, including transcripts, audio, and video resources

• Courses: 1

• Video Hours: 8