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1 _Jesus the Jew_ (1977)
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2 A shift in viewpoint motivated in part by the need to acknowledge the
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3 Holocaust
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5 Importance to early Friends of hearing the living Word of God.
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6 The bible is a _witness_ to the Word, not the Word itself.
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7
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8 [Samuel Fisher]
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10 Ordinary people struglling to make sense of and recount something
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11 inspiring, but complicated.
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13 [start with detox, e.g. wrt "God", "Jesus", "sin"]
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15 *Mark*
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17 Passionate, angry, active, _urgent_
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19 Jesus recognised as a prophet
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21 His mother and his brothers come to take him in charge
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23 Not always clear that it's not a _bad_ spirit moving the prophets...
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24
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25 Surrounded by conflict and misunderstanding
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26
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27 Recording the memories of Peter?
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28 (Matthew and Luke tidying up Mark...)
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30 Strong reactions, strong emotions, sometimes even fear and worry
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32 *Matthew*
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34 Sometimes making editorial decisions (redacting the family coming to
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35 take him in charge), but trying to be faithful to [Mark]
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36
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37 Friction emerging between the the Jewish Christians and the wider
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38 Jewish community, which is beleaguered.
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40 After the year 65 rebellion and the destruction of the Temple
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42 How do we live the Law w/o the Temple? When we're scattered?
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43
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44 A King like David, a teacher like Moses.
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46 TA: 5:48 Not 'perfect', but all-embracing [but c.f. Fox]
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48 Not so much _Kingdom_ of God as a place, but the _reign_ of God as a
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49 way of being.
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51 "there in the midst" -- c.f. two or three are gathered _studying the
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52 Torah_ God is there...
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