"Essences of Jesus"--Jennifer Bird, PhD

[@ncarmstron]

Really clear ten-minute synopsis of how Jesus evolved from Paul’s letters to the Fourth Gospel.

[@jhake67]

is it plausible that ... LUKE / ACTS is being dated nowadays by some scholars to had been written past 90"s in light of marcion and josephus...

[@paulallenscards]

Completely. And not just Luke/Acts, but also Matthew. I would recommend taking a look at Jack Bull’s work in this area. He is incredibly thorough and follows closely with Markus Vinzent’s line of scholarship.

[@ghostriders_1]

Mark looks way too early on yr timeline....it seems to me that it is a full & considered response to the fall of the Temple. He also appears to have used a basic passion template about another Jesus found in Josephus c.75CE. Mark, IMHO is c.78-80CE.

[@wesbaumguardner8829]

She has some mad skills writing backwards like that. She writes better backwards than I write forwards.

[@derekschmidt5705]

She was writing left to right with her right hand. As it reached the camera, everything was backwards. In postprocessing, the image was mirrored so that we could read it.

[@rattel1424]

Interested

[@donmimm2662]

I love this study. I disagree that John was depicting Jesus as God. John was depicting where and how Jesus came into being.

[@greglogan7706]

I have not gotten to that part in her discussion but, yes, John did not talk about Jesus as God but actually specifically portrayed him as distinct from God cf Jn8.40, 17.3, 20.17, etc ad nauseum. Rather Jesus is portrayed as the expression of God - which is exactly what John says in John 1.1 through 14 and again in so many other instances.

[@ncarmstron]

My Baptist Sunday school teacher would be disappointed to hear that! He stressed that John is saying Jesus was “the Word” and “the Word was God” in 1:1. Metaphors were never an option-everything literal, except you had to know “the Word” meant J.C.

[@debbieolson5348]

Back then Caesar was called the son of God. To call Jesus the son of God would make you a traitor.

[@Magnulus76]

"Son of God" in Jesus' original Semitic context would have meant a holy person. Similar usages are still used today in Arabic and other Semitic languages, "son of the road"- traveller, etc.

[@RicardoValdes-r6w]

Saying that ‘ you are not important ‘ in a direct way is indicating that God Himself did not provide you with a spirit and a heart and if you agree or maybe disagree then can deny the sacrifice of what ‘ this guy ‘ as you indicated in words not a savior to you .. Words matter and words convey in to the conversation.. philosophical explanation and a modern scientific board looks great but it looks more like a modern day presentation to present laboratory DNA analysis. The Jewish messiah but certainly not received by the majority of Jews and many others. Jesus of Nazareth important however much more important Jesus Christ the ‘ resurrected ‘ Christ ❤️🙏

[@oceanwaves64]

Jesus ethnically was a Palestinian, and religiously was a Muslim, he believed in what Ibrahim believed in, one God with no son or daughter.