The Salt of The Earth: Matthew 5:13

In Matthew 5:13, Jesus said to his disciples, "You are the salt of the earth..." but what exactly did he mean by that? Look beyond the English idioms. Look deeper into history. Consider how ancient Greeks and Jews perceived salt in antiquity. What did salt mean to the Romans? Study the context and investigate how the term was used in the Hebrew Bible, and you may uncover a meaning you never considered before. Drop in on this teaching recorded live.

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The Jews and Anti-Judaism in John’s Gospel (~2.5h)

Does the Gospel of John genuinely express anti-Judaic ideas? In his first-century CE narrative, “the Jews” (hoi Iudaioi; οἱ Ἰουδαῖοι) do frequently oppose Jesus. Reading the story as an outsider, one may even feel that Jesus himself is not a Jew, and neither are his disciples. Yet we know that

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Jewish and Greek Thinking

This conversation is a segment from the IBC course titled “Jews and Greeks on Life and the Afterlife.” Yeshaya Gruber, Nicholas Schaser, Eli Lizorkin-Eyzenberg, and Pinchas Shir discuss the ways Greeks thought in a completely different manner than the Jews. Learn more about Jewish and Greek concepts of origin, afterlife,

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Jesus: Nazarene or Nazarite?

After reading the gospels some people walk away thinking that Jesus was a Nazarite. “And came and lived in a city called Nazareth. This was to fulfill what was spoken through the prophets: “He shall be called a Nazarene.” (Mat 2:23 NASB) The writings of the Apostles, the New

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