Matthew

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Watch as Dr. Amy-Jill Levine (Hartford International University for Religion and Peace) talks to us about Matthew 20:29-23:39. We discuss:
Jesus' entry into Jerusalem
the trilogy of parables
the Pharisees
suggestions for teaching Matthew 23 with sensitivity
Relevant Work by Amy-Jill Levine
The Pharisees, ed. with Joseph Sievers. Eerdmans, 2021.
The Misunderstood Jew: The Church and the Scandal of the Jewish Jesus. HarperCollins, 2006.
Jewish Annotated New Testament, ed. with Marc Zvi Brettler. 2nd ed. Oxford University Press, 2017.
The Bible With and Without Jesus: How Jews and Christians Read the Same Stories Differently, with Marc Zvi Brettler. HarperCollins, 2020.
This Week’s Blurb
In this episode, Amy-Jill Levine Recommends:
spending time with family, knitting, and ballroom dancing.
Next Week
Next week, we talk to Dr. Melissa Ramos (Portland Seminary) about Deuteronomy 27-30 (Covenant Renewal)
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[@joshuastone990]

Love AJ…wow!!! Another great one!!!

[@TheTwoTestaments]

Thanks for listening!

[@WhatYourPastorDidntTellYou]

As a fellow TH-camr, could I recommend you put the subject of the interview on the thumbnail or title of the video? I see you have done that in a few videos but I realize that most people aren’t familiar enough with the Bible to know what Romans 11 talks about and most probably don’t care enough to watch it just to find out. Either way, thanks for conducting these interviews!

[@TheTwoTestaments]

Thanks for the suggestion.

[@Thomasw540]

Like Amy-Jill Levine, Matthew is arguing from the impermeable boundaries of the School of Shammas while Jesus is proceeding on the basis that the Law of Moses is a rough draft and editing the law within the expansive and inclusive horizons of the School of Philo of Alexandria. Christian doctrine proceeds on the basis of the KISS principle and begins by simplifying the Jewish theory of sin with Mark 3:28 Truly I tell you, people can be forgiven all their sins and every slander they utter, 29 but whoever blasphemes against the Holy Spirit will never be forgiven; they are guilty of an eternal sin. Then he abrogates all the dietary laws with Mark 7:19 and reduces the 613 laws of the Mishna to the decomposition of the Shema to be four square with the Earth with the inclusion of Plato with the other dimensions of the Prayer.
Unlike the Gospel of Mark, which was written by Cornelius as a work of straight forward military journalism t for consumption up his chain of command with Theophilus, The Gospel of Matthew is a polemic that connects all the dots of Jewish theology exposed in Mark as a rebuttal to Galatians, and in support of the Judaizing of Peter and James. Matthew like likewise introduces Plato into the Shema but retains the 3 legged stool construction of Deuteronomy 6:6 by losing "strength" in the construction, As far as I know, Jews stil use the 3 legged stool of Deuteronomy when they cover their eyes in the morning, That's the Shammai School of Jewish exclusivity. '
It would probably serve the discussion to consider the fact that the current Hamas-Likud axis can be reliably taced back to a time with David was cutting off 100 uncircumcised dicks from gentile neighbors for a wedding dowry of 100 foreskins, Within the Shammai school of Jewish righteousness, that's a fun story of anointed hijinks and what was expected of a hard charging, kick ass and take naves Messiah, Even John the Baptists expected Jesus to be like Mohammad,
Jesus was like Josephus: He had no argument with Pax Romana. Like Jonah, Jesus had come to prevent the coming Apocalypses being fomented by the Zealots by diverting Israel from the dead-end vertical trajectory of Eschatology and back onto the horizontal trajectory of the infinite horizons of Genesis 15:5, It turns out the Italian Regiment of the Roman Republic was already headed in that direct, which is why the Jewish god conducted a unilateral covenant cutting ceremony with the Romans once Jesus was split and ratified with the Talking Cross.
The Gospels are a play ground of the Holy Spirit, When you start with Pilate's lost euangelion as the bow string, the 3 + 1 gestalt of the Gospels is a common figure of all the scriptures and are the feathers on the arrow Pilate's lost euangelion launched and Acts is the shaft of the arrow and the 13 Epistles of Paul, with beings with the 624 verses of Romans and ends with the 25 verses of Philemon that is shot directly at Hebrews, which is the manifesto of the secret Roman Christian fellowship of the Italian Regiment which ultimately produces the Apostles Creed, the perfect soldiers confession of the Roman God Fearers, who were God Fearers before they knew anything about Moses or Abraham or the parting of the Red Sea. Everything the Roman soldiers needed to embrace Christianity was conveyed by the bread and wind of Melchizedek and Jesus and the justification by faith of Cornelius in Matthew 8:5 - 13 that was ratified by the Talking Cross of the lost euangelion of Pilate. ,
In the final analysis, the four Gospels, Acts and the Epistles are a partial bibliography of the research in Judea for the composition of Hebrews by Theophilus in Rome. For all intents and purposes, Cornelius is Quelle and the common denominator for the Gospels and Acts and Pilate's lost euangelion is cited 19 times in Paul's Epistles as the basis of his theology,
If Amy-Jill Levine was far less diligent about being comic relief for James Tabor and the Jesus Seminar as the Phyllis Diller of Comparative Theology, she might come to realize that N/T. Wright's characterization of Paul's theology is superior to the dialectical Marxism of the Jesus Seminar. She is more right than wrong about the entire Bible being about becoming a person, but her self=inflicted confinement to the Shammai ethic posits Israel as another day in Paradise and the universe of the Gentiles as bad karma, Even Hillel was willing to share the stunted Jewish ontology with the unclean