Episodes

Sunday Feb 16, 2020
Sunday Seminary: The Gospel of Mark
Sunday Feb 16, 2020
Sunday Feb 16, 2020
Join this weekly lecture by scholar-in-residence Dr. Brennan Breed.
Suggested readings:
1. Mark 1-16
2. Jesus (Bible Odyssey)
3. The Jewish Context of Jesus (Bible Odyssey)
4. Greco-Roman Jesus (Bible Odyssey)
5. Did the Authors of the Gospels Know Each Other? (Bible Odyssey)
6. Good News (Bible Odyssey)
7. Healing of a Blind Man (Bible Odyssey)
8. Divine Power in Mark 8 (Bible Odyssey)
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Sunday Feb 02, 2020
Sunday Seminary: Introduction to the Gospels
Sunday Feb 02, 2020
Sunday Feb 02, 2020
Join this weekly lecture by scholar-in-residence Dr. Brennan Breed.
Suggested readings:
1. Did the Authors of the Canonical Gospels Know Each Other? (Sarah Rollens, Bible Odyssey)
2. Q Source (Mark Goodacre, Bible Odyssey)
3. Noncanonical Gospels (Nicola Dezeny Lewis, Bible Odyssey)
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Sunday Jan 26, 2020
Sunday Seminary: Messiahs and More Messiahs
Sunday Jan 26, 2020
Sunday Jan 26, 2020
Join this weekly lecture by guest teacher Associate Pastor of Discipleship, Rev. Cassie Waits.
Suggested readings:
1. Acts 5:17-41, Ezra 4:1-6, Isaiah 45:1-3
2. Josephus, Jewish Antiquities: Cyrus the Great (553-530 B.C.), About Jewish Sects, The Egyptian
3. Josephus, The Jewish War: Judas of Galilee & Simon of Perea (1st cent.), Menahem Ben Judah (60 C.E.)
4. Christ (Max Botner, Bible Odyssey)
Suggested videos:
1. Messiahs (Reza Aslan, Bible Odyssey)
2. Messiah (The Bible Project)
3. Pharisees, Sadducees and Essenes (Robert Cargill, Bible Odyssey)
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Sunday Jan 12, 2020
Sunday Seminary: The Social and Historical Context of the New Testament
Sunday Jan 12, 2020
Sunday Jan 12, 2020
Join this weekly lecture by scholar-in-residence Dr. Brennan Breed.
Suggested readings:
1. Languages of First-Century Palestine (Samuel Thomas)
2. The Second Temple (Lawrence Shiffman)
3. Deconstruction and Reconstruction of the Temple (Tamara Cohn Eskenazi)
4. The Jewish Context of Jesus (Amy Jill-Levine)
5. Herod the Great (Morten Jensen)
6. Jerusalem in the New Testament Period (Mark Chancey)
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Sunday Jan 05, 2020
Sunday Seminary: What is the New Testament?
Sunday Jan 05, 2020
Sunday Jan 05, 2020
Join this weekly lecture by scholar-in-residence Dr. Brennan Breed.
Suggested readings:
1. How Was the Bible Written and Transmitted? (Brennan Breed)
2. The New Testament Canon (Lee Martin McDonald)
3. In What Ways is the New Testament a Religious Text? (Deitmar Neufeld)
4. How Does the Hebrew Bible Relate to the Ancient Near Eastern World? (Alan Lenzi)
5. How Did Scribes and the Scribal Tradition Shape the Hebrew Bible? (Ian Werrett)
6. How Was the Bible Formed? (Justin Walker)
7. The Bible and History (Carol Meyers)
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Sunday Dec 15, 2019
Sunday Seminary: Greco-Roman Wisdom
Sunday Dec 15, 2019
Sunday Dec 15, 2019
Join this weekly lecture by scholar-in-residence Dr. Brennan Breed.
Suggested readings:
1. Wisdom of Solomon
2. On the Creation (Philo of Alexandria)
3. What is Wisdom Literature?
4. Alexandria and Allegory (Dennis MacDonald)
5. Philo, Clement, and Origen (Marco Rizzi)
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Sunday Dec 08, 2019
Sunday Seminary: Testementary Literature: Job and Moses
Sunday Dec 08, 2019
Sunday Dec 08, 2019
Join this weekly lecture by scholar-in-residence Dr. Brennan Breed.
Suggested readings:
1. Testament of Job
2. Testament of Moses
3. Testament of Job (article about)
4. Testament of Moses (article about)
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Sunday Dec 01, 2019
Sunday Seminary: Jewish Identity in the Greco-Roman World: Tobit and Judith
Sunday Dec 01, 2019
Sunday Dec 01, 2019
Join this weekly lecture by scholar-in-residence Dr. Brennan Breed.
Suggested readings:
1. Tobit
2. Judith
3. Judith (Denise Dombrowski Hopkins)
4. Jewish Customs in Judith (Tal Ilan)
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Sunday Nov 24, 2019
Sunday Seminary: Diasporic Judaism
Sunday Nov 24, 2019
Sunday Nov 24, 2019
Join this weekly lecture by scholar-in-residence Dr. Brennan Breed.
Suggested readings:
1. The Letter of Aristeas
2. Diaspora Literature (Martien Halvorson-Taylor)
3. Alexandria (David Eastman)
4. What is the Septuagint (and why does it matter?) (James Smith)
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Sunday Nov 10, 2019
Sunday Nov 10, 2019
Join this weekly lecture by scholar-in-residence Dr. Brennan Breed.
Suggested readings:
1. Pesher Habakkuk
2. War Scroll
3. The Other Bible from Qumran
4. Pesher Habbakuk (article about)
5. Aramaic Literature in the Dead Sea Scrolls (Andrew Perrin)
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