J.C. – More Jew Than You

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a little bit Jewish, James Crossley, Jeffrey Hunter, Jesus, supercessionism, totally Jewish, ueber Jewish, very Jesus

James Crossley provides an excellent rundown of recent critiques of scholarship’s ambiguous portrayal of Jesus Christ as a Jew.

the contemporary manifestations of ‘pro-Jewish’ rhetoric in NT scholarship is superficial in that it perpetuates the old notions of superiority seemingly more typical of the now so regularly denounced pre-Sanders scholarship. Or, put another way, if we cut through the scholarly rhetoric … have things really changed so much since prior to the 1970s?

– J.C. (James Crossley)

Jeffrey Hunter plays a not-very-Jewish-at-all Jesus in "King of Kings"

How to distinguish Biblical Metaphor from Literal Meaning

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incarnation, Jesus, literal, Metaphor

God: I’ve already put in the scriptures that the Earth hangs upon nothing, over empty space [Job 26:7] – and let’s face it, how is that not obviously and irrefutably divinely revealed scientific knowledge about the nature of the universe?

Divine Council: Well, you also told them that the Earth sits upon pillars [1 Sam 2:8].

God: No, no. That one’s just metaphorical.

Divine Council: Oh. And the other one’s not?

God: No. The other one’s scientific fact. It’s – you know – hanging in … in space.

Divine Council: Well, how are people meant to tell the difference?

God: Well – the ones that are correct are facts and the ones that aren’t correct are just metaphors, of course!

– NonStampCollector, “What Would Jesus NOT Do?” (4:46–5:15)