RELS 201 Lecture Notes - Lecture 9: Pharisees, Sadducees, Essenes
28 Oct 2016
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Christianity"s jewish roots: jesus was jewish, the disciples were jewish, jesus" bible was the tanak, early christianity as a jewish messianic sect, early christian typology based on the tanak. Everything must be fulfilled that is written about me in the. Law of moses, the prophets and the psalms. =the view that jesus is the fullness of all that was foreshadowed in the history of judaism. =the vies that jesus supersedes the past (jesus is considered as better than abraham?, jesus fulfilled them, superseding in the past) The early jewish followers of jesus appealed to their history to understand the significance of jesus. Moses- deliverance from slavery in egypt, jesus-deliverance from slavery to sin. Manna-bread from heave, jesus- the bread of life. *temple was destroyed, jesus replaced it (christians" view) This is he [jesus] who was spoken of through the prophet.
