Podcasts about Yohanan

Overview:In this episode, Ryan and Brian dive into a recent Christianity Today article by Daniel Silliman that sparked controversy by discussing scholar Jeffrey Paul Garcia's research suggesting Jesus' crucifixion may not have involved nails. The hosts explore the article's implications, the role of biblical scholarship, and the historical and archaeological evidence surrounding crucifixion. They also reflect on the importance of careful scholarship and its presentation to the public.Key Topics Discussed:Introduction to the Christianity Today ArticleArticle by Daniel Silliman references Jeffrey Garcia's research, which proposes that ropes, not nails, may have been used in Jesus' crucifixion.Published around Easter, leading to a firestorm of responses due to its timing and implications.Ryan notes he heard Garcia present this paper at the Society of Biblical Literature (SBL) meeting in 2006, highlighting the slow dissemination of scholarly work.Context of Biblical ScholarshipRyan defines a scholar as someone deeply engaged in study, emphasizing that it's not an elite category but a commitment to rigorous inquiry.Describes the SBL as a diverse gathering of scholars, including conservatives, nonbelievers, and others, studying Christian, Hebrew, and intertestamental texts.Contrasts how ideas are received in scholarly settings versus congregational ones, noting the skepticism scholars face at SBL.The Article's Claims and EvidenceGarcia's argument: Nails are not explicitly mentioned in the Synoptic Gospels (Matthew, Mark, Luke), and some ancient sources suggest ropes were used in crucifixions.Ryan counters with literary evidence:John 20 explicitly mentions nail marks in Jesus' hands (verses 25, 27).Luke 24:39-40 implies wounds in Jesus' hands and feet, supporting the nail narrative.Archaeological evidence:Yohanan's skeleton (found in Jerusalem post-Six Days War) with a nail in the heel bone, suggesting nails were used.Govello skeleton in Italy, another crucified individual with ankle damage.Nails were often reused due to the value of iron, explaining scarce archaeological remains.Ancient Roman inscription lists nails as essential for crucifixion, reinforcing their use.Response to the ArticleChristianity Today's evangelical roots (founded with Billy Graham's involvement) make the article's publication surprising, as it was perceived to question scriptural inerrancy.Silliman issued an apology, admitting he didn't consider John 20 or the impact on readers' views of inerrancy.Ryan and Brian critique the article's presentation in a popular outlet, which may lack the scholarly nuance needed for such claims.Historical and Archaeological Insights on CrucifixionRyan references Martin Hengel's book, Crucifixion in the Ancient World and the Folly of the Message of the Cross, which details the widespread use of crucifixion by Romans.Crucifixion was not just execution but public humiliation, often near roads for visibility.Variations in crucifixion methods:Crosses were likely lower than depicted in media.Shapes varied (e.g., capital T vs. small t).Some were crucified post-mortem for display.Example: Peter's upside-down crucifixion per church tradition.Yohanan's leg fractures were likely post-mortem, not evidence of crurifragium (leg-breaking to hasten death), as initially thought.The Role of Scholarship in FaithRyan defends...

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En este impactante episodio de Extra Anormal Podcast, Paco Arias junto al reconocido investigador Yohanan Díaz exploran casos aterradores de contacto con entidades demoníacas, desde posesiones escalofriantes hasta rituales de sacrificio. ¿Qué sucede cuando alguien se adentra en el mundo de lo oculto?⚠️ Advertencia: Este episodio contiene relatos fuertes y perturbadores. Escucha bajo tu propio riesgo.

On the brink of the destruction of the Temple in Jerusalem, Yohanan ben Zakkai made an astonishing decision.  When faced with an opportunity to ask for anything from the new Roman emperor, Vespasian, rather than choosing to ask him to spare the Temple, Yochanan asked only for permission to start a school and preserve Jewish teachings in Yavneh, south of modern day Tel Aviv.  Rabbi Marc Katz argues that this decision underscores how the Rabbis were the ultimate pragmatists in his new book Yochanan's Gam­ble: Judais­m's Prag­mat­ic Approach to Life. Is Katz right, and how should we consider pragmatism through a modern perspective?

¡Bienvenidos a otra impactante emisión de Extra Anormal Podcast! En esta ocasión, contamos con la presencia de dos invitados de lujo:

In this message, Ps. Rafy Panlilio dives deep into the meaning of the name Yohanan, which translates to “Yahweh is gracious.” Based on John 1:14-17, we discover the fullness of grace and truth that Jesus brought into the world. Ps. Rafy explains how grace impacts our lives—granting us forgiveness, transformation, and the call to serve God. We are reminded that grace is God's richest gift at Christ's expense. Through His sacrifice, we receive grace upon grace, empowering us to live in freedom, grow in Christlikeness, and serve with passion. Join us in reflecting on how grace shapes your life today!

¡Prepárate para un episodio fuera de este mundo!

Hoy me acompaña el experto en fenómenos extraterrestres, Yohanan Díaz, para explorar temas fascinantes que te dejarán pensando. Hablamos sobre los cambios planetarios que estamos experimentando, los avistamientos de ovnis que se han multiplicado en todo el mundo, y las impactantes experiencias de los contactados que han recibido mensajes de seres de otros mundos

Yohanan Díaz nos llevan a explorar los cambios planetarios y las profecías alienígenas que están dando mucho de qué hablar. ¿Te has preguntado qué pasará con nuestro planeta en los próximos años? Yohanan nos comparte impactantes predicciones sobre la reducción de países que desaparecerán por completo bajo el agua debido a catastróficos eventos naturales. Estos cambios podrían transformar radicalmente el mapa mundial tal como lo conocemos

Where was God on October 7?To my dear Jewish brothers and sisters:A question keeps surfacing since the October 7, 2023 Hamas massacre of innocent Israeli's in Southern Israel.  It is the same question that is asked about the Holocaust.  The question is “Where was God?”I want to try to answer that question today and it won't be easy.  Telling the truth is never easy and receiving it can be even more difficult.  But if you love people, you have to tell them the truth and I love my Jewish brothers and sisters.  So here is the truth and I hope you can receive it.  The truth is this: We all sin and we all deserve to die.Listen to what Adonai says through the prophet Ezekiel:“"Behold, all souls are Mine; The soul of the father As well as the soul of the son is Mine; The soul who sins shall die.” (Ezekiel 18:4, NKJV)But surely we don't all sin, do we?  We do, because we are all born with sin in us.  Listen to what King David, the sweet psalmist of Israel, said:“Behold, I was brought forth in iniquity, And in sin my mother conceived me.” (Psalms 51:5, NKJV)We all sin, brothers and sisters.Brothers and sisters, people died in the Hamas attack.  There were deaths, many deaths.  How many of those deaths could have been prevented?  I don't know.  That is an important question.  But I want to talk about something else right now, something much more important.  I want to explain something about death to you but then I want to focus on life.  Did you know that there are two types of death?  One type leads to nothing but death.  That is eternal death.  The person who dies in sin will experience eternal death.  There is a second type of death and this type of death leads to eternal life.  That's a good type of death.  This type of death leads to living with God forever, for eternity.  That is a good death.  If I was in Southern Israel on October 7, I would not have wanted to die.  But if I did die, I'd want my death to be a good one, a death leading to eternal life.Is there a way that you and I can know that when we die, we will go to heaven to be with God, that we will have eternal life?  Yes, there is.  And that is very important, because everyone dies.  In order to go to heaven when we die, we must be free of sin.  How does that work?In the Old Testament dispensation there was a tabernacle and later a temple.  There, God ordained animal sacrifices that provided a covering for sins.  God talked about this through Moses, in Leviticus:“For the life of the flesh is in the blood, and I have given it to you upon the altar to make atonement for your souls; for it is the blood that makes atonement for the soul.'” (Leviticus 17:11, NKJV)But animal blood provided only a temporary covering for sins.  That's why these sacrifices had to be repeated constantly; they had to be repeated after every new sin.  But there is no longer a temple in Jerusalem.  So how can people receive forgiveness of sins today?  God told us how through the prophet Jeremiah:“"Behold, the days are coming, says the LORD, when I will make a new covenant with the house of Israel and with the house of Judah— not according to the covenant that I made with their fathers in the day that I took them by the hand to lead them out of the land of Egypt, My covenant which they broke, though I was a husband to them, says the LORD. But this is the covenant that I will make with the house of Israel after those days, says the LORD: I will put My law in their minds, and write it on their hearts; and I will be their God, and they shall be My people. No more shall every man teach his neighbor, and every man his brother, saying, 'Know the LORD,' for they all shall know Me, from the least of them to the greatest of them, says the LORD. For I will forgive their iniquity, and their sin I will remember no more."” (Jeremiah 31:31-34, NKJV)Behold, the days are coming, says the LORD.  Those days have come.  They are here, now.  Jesus, the Messiah, inaugurated this new covenant 2,000 years ago.  Jesus talked about it at the last supper which was a Passover seder:“For this is My blood of the new covenant, which is shed for many for the remission of sins.” (Matthew 26:28, NKJV)Then, He went to the cross where He shed His blood and died.  He was the perfect blood sacrifice, because He was and is God.  His blood is perfectly holy, and it provides for permanent and total forgiveness of sins for all who accept it.  His blood was offered once and that was sufficient.  Listen to the apostle John:“So when Jesus had received the sour wine, He said, "It is finished!" And bowing His head, He gave up His spirit.” (John 19:30, NKJV)All who believe in this finished work of the Messiah on the cross, those who believe it through faith, become sons and daughters of God; they are born again.  The apostle John, Yohanan, said this in the New Testament:“But as many as received Him, to them He gave the right to become children of God, to those who believe in His name: who were born, not of blood, nor of the will of the flesh, nor of the will of man, but of God.” (John 1:12-13, NKJV)And God's Old Testament prophet Habakkuk said this in the Tanach:“"Behold the proud, His soul is not upright in him; But the just shall live by his faith.” (Habakkuk 2:4, NKJV)Brothers and sisters,God was there on October 7 and during the Holocaust.  He was there, welcoming His children, those destined to die then and who were born of God, into heaven to be with Him.  They are in heaven now.  Their deaths led to eternal life.One day soon, Yeshua, Jesus, the Messiah will return.  Then, the unrighteous – like Hamas – will be unable to harm anyone anymore.  They will be confined to Sheol awaiting their final judgement by God and then they will be consigned to the Lake of Fire for eternity.  Then there will be no more October Sevenths, ever.  But now, today, you should accept the work that Jesus did for you and me on the cross because you will have the guarantee of eternal life when you die.  God was there on October 7, and He is here now.  He offers you the gift of eternal life.  Please don't turn Him down.  Please don't ever say “I'm Jewish and Jews don't believe in Jesus”.  That is simply not true.  Please don't be proud, but be just, as Habakkuk said.  Listen to the testimony of Rabbi Daniel Zion who saved 50,000 Bulgarian Jews from Hitler's ovens and the testimony of Rabbi Sam Stern who lived through the Holocaust and found his Messiah.  Both those testimonies are on this very site.  Please, brothers and sisters, choose life.Thank you for listening.  This is Art Wolinsky. This is a public episode. If you would like to discuss this with other subscribers or get access to bonus episodes, visit awolinsky.substack.com

En este fascinante episodio de "Extra Anormal", nos adentramos en los misterios no humanos y la posibilidad de contacto extraterrestre con nuestro invitado experto, Yohanan Díaz. Desde avistamientos inexplicables hasta encuentros cercanos, exploramos las conexiones entre lo paranormal y lo extraterrestre, desentrañando teorías y experiencias intrigantes que desafían nuestra comprensión de lo desconocido. Prepárate para sumergirte en un viaje que desafía los límites de lo que creemos posible. Misterios del Fenómeno No Humano | Paranormal o Extraterrestre. FT: Yohanan Díaz Redes sociales de Yohanan https://youtube.com/@yohanandiaz?si=TMCU5M4FsDxiwW0_ https://youtube.com/@HistoriasInexplicablesPodcast?si=WHTNjqO833wab3O8 Distribuido por Genuina Media

Un enriquecedor dialogo con Yohanan Dias desde Insólita Experiencia . 20 Marzo 2021 @yohanandiaz 0:03:03¿Qué es espiritualizar la materia? 0:05:52 Para qué nos sirve: ¿para ser mejores personas? ¿Para seguir evolucionando? 0:08:19 ¿Por dónde hay que empezar para conocer? 0:16:41 La palabra Amor, parece inalcanzable, ¿cómo podemos hacer para encauzarnos hacia el amor? 0:25:50 El amor es innato en nosotros. ¿El egoísmo origina el caos? 0:34:31 ¿Cómo salir airosos de la escuela de la vida? 0:47:06 Espiritualidad ¿es lograr la amalgama perfecta entre nuestras dos naturalezas? 0:50:25 ¿Debemos evitar la gente que no está en nuestra misma frecuencia para que no afecte nuestra vibración? 0:55:39 Tener fe en anillos, amuletos, cuarzos. ¿Es correcto? 0:58:51 Trabajo interno. Hacia a dónde dirigirnos. 1:11:40 ¿Qué debemos hacer para conocer sobre los grandes cambios? ▪ Suscribite a nuestro canal: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UC8XT... ▪ También estamos en Facebook:   / fundacionimp.  . ▪ Seguinos en Instagram:   / fundacion_i.  . ▪ Contactanos en nuestro sitio web: http://www.impulsodeunanuevavida.org/

Para cerrar con broche de oro esta Tercera Temporada de 4U Sin filtros Karla y Mich continúan con una segunda parte platicando con Yohanan Díaz de experiencias , ovnis y extraterrestres.

Capítulo 44 remasterizado: Segunda parte de la entrevista a Yohanan Díaz Vargas: Contactados / ¿Hay extraterrestres en la Tierra? / ¿Cómo son? / ¿Qué dicen los contactados?

En este episodio extraordinario, nos acompaña el experto en lo desconocido, Yohanan Díaz, para explorar los enigmas que rodean a nuestro propio planeta. Sumérgete en las teorías intrigantes sobre la existencia de una Tierra Hueca, un mundo subterráneo lleno de secretos asombrosos. Junto a Yohanan, desentrañaremos mitos, leyendas y evidencias que desafían nuestra comprensión convencional del planeta en el que vivimos. Además, exploraremos fenómenos no humanos que desafían toda explicación lógica. Desde avistamientos OVNI hasta encuentros con entidades inexplicables, este episodio promete llevarnos más allá de lo ordinario. ¿Qué opinas sobre la posibilidad de una Tierra Hueca y la presencia de fenómenos no humanos? ¡Déjanos tu comentario y únete a la conversación! No olvides suscribirte para no perderte futuras exploraciones de lo misterioso en Extra Anormal Podcast.PARA ENVIAR RELATOS Y COLABORACIONES AL SIGUIENTE CORREO: extraanormalpodcast@gmail.com ....................................................................................................................................................... No se te olvide seguirnos en nuestras redes, aquí te las comparto: YOUTUBE: https://www.youtube.com/@extraanormalpodcast FACEBOOK: https://www.facebook.com/podcastExtraAnormal INSTAGRAM: https://www.instagram.com/extra.anormal.podcast/ TIKTOK: https://www.tiktok.com/@extra.anormal.podcast .......................................................................................................................................................  

​ @yohanandiaz nos platica sobre contactos y abducciones extraterrestres. Así como sus traumáticos efectos en las víctimas.

​ @yohanandiaz nos platica sobre contactos y abducciones extraterrestres. Así como sus traumáticos efectos en las víctimas.

Yohanan Díaz Vargas, periodista e investigador, nos relata todos los pormenores y problemas que enfrentar aquellas personas que aseguran ser contactadas por entidades no humanas, así como las predicciones que estas inteligencias les han transmitido, para este 2023. 

Yohanan Díaz Vargas, periodista e investigador, nos relata todos los pormenores y problemas que enfrentar aquellas personas que aseguran ser contactadas por entidades no humanas, así como las predicciones que estas inteligencias les han transmitido, para este 2023. 

In the “Year of Four Emperors,” a great sage receives an audience with Vespasian and serves as the link between destruction and redemption.

Hoy platicamos con Yohanan Diaz Una de las personas más interesantes del fenómeno Ovni, nos viene a platicar historias increíbles de contactados al rededor del mundo, y algunos secretos que te sorprenderán.  Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

A father fights the Quebec government after realizing the secular education both he and his children had gotten in their Hasidic Yeshivas, were intentionally not up to the legal state requirements. Struggling with ostracization, dishonor and a battle to keep their own children after leaving the sect, Yohanan Lowen continues to fight for the children who don't know any better.Click here to watch the episode on YouTube(clickable chapter markers available on YouTube)No functional education for its members, do you agree?Disclaimer:  Orthodox community split into main 3 sectionsWhy different Jewish Sects wash each others handsLast disclaimerGrowing up in a Hasidic ghettoThe differences in the community from London to New York (CONTROL)What does Hasidic control look like?Responding to the Chavie video commenters claiming her story was biasedAre Rabbi's allowed to get married or have sex?How old was Yohanan when he got married?Masturbation was considered WORSE than murderNo birth control- families with 18 children!Is anyone happy in the group?Required duties of a Hasidic man in Yohanan's sectHis elite line of familyWhat started the domino effect for Yohanan's family to leaveWhy put his son in a non-hasidic school to begin with?Differences in Hasidic yeshivas and secular schoolsWhy are governments siding with these high control groups over the parents of children who have left?Advice for anyone who is trying to leave their Hasidic communityFind and support YohananDocumentary he was featured in: "I Want to Know" ClubhouseInstagram: @einiklHis Wife's YouTube Channel:  @shifralowen His Wife's PatreonSupport ShelisePatreon: Patreon.com/cultstoconsciousnessVenmo @sheliseannAny donations are welcome and appreciated to support the making of this podcastFind Shelise on Social media!Instagram @cultstoconsciousnessHost Instagram @sheliseannTikTok @cults.to.consciousnessTwitter @cultstoconTheme Song Produced and Composed by Christian Guevara**Disclaimer: Thanks for joining us at Cults to Consciousness. This storytelling podcast is meant to be for entertainment purposes only and does not substitute for medical advice. We may discuss triggering topics and we ask that you make your personal mental health a priority. Lastly, the opinions of our guests do not necessarily reflect the opinions of the host.**

Una de las conversaciones más interesantes con un experto del intrigante y misterioso tema del contactismo: Yohanan Díaz.INVITADO: YOHANAN DÍAZ ► https://www.instagram.com/yohanandiaz/ ► https://twitter.com/yohanandiaz ► https://www.facebook.com/yohanandiazOficial/ ► https://www.youtube.com/yohanandiazHOST DEL PODCAST: FEPO ► https://twitter.com/fepomx/ ► https://instagram.com/fepomx/ ► https://www.tiktok.com/@fepomx

R. Abhu in the name of R. Yohanan היתר מצטרף לאיסור only for Nazir. Source is משרת (R. Akiva) Abaye challenged – also other prohibitions Rav Dimi – those cases are כזית בכדי אכילת פרס Abaye challenged – משרת teaches טעם כעיקר. Applies to all prohibitions acc to majority From where does R. Akiva learn טעם כעיקר? Meat and Milk Nonkosher Pots Why does R. Akiva not apply היתר מצטרך לאיסור to all prohibitions?

Episode 35 of What Gives? the Jewish philanthropy podcast from Jewish Funders Network. Yohanan Plesner, President of the Israel Democracy Institute, talks to JFN President and CEO Andres Spokoiny about the consequences of the new Israeli government's judicial reform initiatives, how today's issues compare to existential threats of Israel's past, and Yohanan's hopes and aspirations for the future of Israeli democracy.

Les prénoms Yohanan, Avishai, Ella by Rav David Touitou

Encore podcast: Short study on Yohanan the Immerser (John the Baptiser). This message was given by Messianic Rabbi Frank Davis  on September 3, 2016.  

We continue in the second week of Highway's Advent celebration and the second message in our series titled "The Herald" considering the coming of the Messiah and the person of John the Baptist. John's naming ceremony was filled with a sense of expectation, as the people asked, “What then is this child going to be?” The answer to their question is contained in John's name. Yohanan means “Yahweh brings grace,” which points to John's prophetic role as the forerunner and herald to the one who would usher in the age of grace. As we celebrate Jesus' coming, and anticipate his return this Advent season, we are invited to share in the joy of the grace and love that God has shown us through the sending of his Son, our Savior.

Malcolm Clemens Young                                                                        Grace Cathedral, San Francisco, CA 2C51                                            2 Advent (Year A) 8:30 a.m. and 11:00 a.m. Eucharist                    Sunday 4 December 2022                                                                       Isaiah 11:1-10 Psalm 72:1-7, 18-19 Romans 15:4-13 Matthew 3:1-12 Are There Reasons to Have Hope? An Introduction to the Gospel of Matthew “Whatever was written in former days was written for our instruction, so that… by the encouragement of the scriptures we might have hope” (Rom. 15). Let me speak frankly. I see you might be the, “sort of person who, on principle, no longer expects anything of anything. There are plenty, younger than you or less young, who live in the expectation of extraordinary experiences: from sermons, from people, from journeys, from events, from what tomorrow has in store.” “But not you. You know that the best you can expect is to avoid the worst. This is the conclusion you have reached, in your personal life and also in general matters, even international affairs. What about [sermons]? Well, precisely because you have denied it in every other field, you believe you may still grant yourself legitimately this youthful pleasure of expectation in a carefully circumscribed area like the field of [sermons], where you can be lucky or unlucky, but the risk of disappointment isn't serious.”[1] The twentieth century novelist Italo Calvino (1923-1985) wrote these words about books and I begin here because it is human nature to be wary about hoping too much. We have been disappointed enough in the past to wonder, are there reasons to have hope? I have been reading several recently published books by authors who do not believe in God. I'm grateful to have this chance to walk with them and to try to see the world from their perspectives. Last week I finished reading Kieran Setiya's book Life Is Hard: How Philosophy Can Help Us Find Our Way. His last chapter describes hope as, “wishful thinking.” He goes on to say, “In the end, it seems, there is no hope: the lights go out.” And later in a slightly more positive vein he says, “We can hope that life has meaning: a slow, unsteady march towards a more just future.”[2] The other book is William MacAskill's What We Owe the Future about how we might try to prevent the collapse of human culture from threats like nuclear war, engineered pathogens, and runaway Artificial General Intelligence. He points out the massive amount of suffering among human beings and animals. He uses a scale from -100 to +100 to measure the lifetime suffering or happiness of an abstract person and wonders if, because of the total amount of suffering, life is even worth living. By the way the question “does life have meaning,” is not something that we see in ancient writings or even in the medieval or early modern period. The phrase, “the meaning of life” originates only 1834.[3] Before that time it did not occur to ask this question perhaps because most people assumed that we live in a world guided by its creator. Although these books might seem so different they share a common spirit. First, you may not know what to expect but it will be a human thing. There is no help for us beyond ourselves. Second, they exaggerate the extent to which human beings can comprehend and control the world. Third, they fail to recognize that there are different stories for understanding our place in the universe and that these have a huge influence on our fulfillment. Well-being is in part subjective: we have to decide whether to accept our life as an accident, or to accept it as a gift. Finally, these authors lack a sense that human beings have special dignity or that we might experience God as present with us. In my Forum conversation with Cornel West the other week he mentioned how much he loved Hans-Georg Gadamer's book Truth and Method. It's about the importance of interpretation in human consciousness and begins with a poem from the twentieth century Austrian writer Rainer Maria Rilke (1875-1926). “Catch only what you've thrown yourself, all is mere skill and little gain; / but when you're suddenly the catcher of a ball / thrown by an eternal partner / with accurate and measured swing / towards you, to your center, in an arch / from the great bridgebuilding of God: / why catching then becomes a power - / not yours, a world's.”[4] How do we catch the world God is offering to us? This morning I am going to discuss an interpretation of the Book of Matthew by my friend the biblical scholar Herman Waetjen. I am not trying to communicate facts to you or to explain something. I long to open a door so that you might experience the truth of hope, the recognition that at the heart of all reality lies the love of God. Today is the second Sunday in the church calendar. Over the next twelve months during worship we will be reading through the Gospel of Matthew. Scholars say that 600 of the 1071 verses in it, along with half of its vocabulary come from the Gospel of Mark. An additional 225 verses come from a saying source and other oral traditions.[5] And yet this Gospel is utterly original. Although the first hearers are highly urban people living in the regional capital of Antioch, really Matthew speaks directly to us. In the year 70 CE a catastrophic event threatened to obliterate the entire religion of the Jews. Roman forces crushed an uprising in Jerusalem destroying God's earthly residence, the temple, and many of the rituals and traditions that defined the Jewish religion. Without the temple a new way of being religious had to be constructed. Let me tell you about three alternative visions for the faith from that time. First there was the way of the Pharisees led by Yohanan ben Zakkai (50-80 CE). Legend held that he had been secreted out of Jerusalem during the destruction in a coffin. HE then made an arrangement with Roman authorities to remain subject to them but with limited powers of self-government. Zakkai asserted that the study of Torah was as sacred as the Temple sacrifices. “He substituted chesed (kindness or love) in place of the demolished temple.”[6] God can be at the center of people's lives through “a reconciliation that is realizable through deeds of mercy that are fulfilled by observing the law.”[7] Waetjen asserts that the Gospel of Matthew criticizes this vision because it leads to a distinction between righteous (moral) people who are clean and sinful outsiders. A second solution to this religious crisis comes from apocalyptic literature about the end of the world, especially the Second Book of Baruch. This author writes about the Babylonian destruction of the Jewish Temple in 487 BCE. In his vision an angel descends to the Temple, removes all the holy things and says, “He who guarded the house has left it” (2 Baruch 8:2). The keys are thrown away almost as if it was de-sanctified. According to this view,“in the present the temple has no significance.” But in the future it will be renewed in glory through the power of God. So the people wait for God's return. Although Matthew is aware of both these answers to the religious crisis he chooses a third way beyond a division between clean and unclean people, or simply waiting for a new Temple. Matthew writes that Jesus as Son of David comes out of a particular people, with its history, etc., but Jesus is also a new creation which Waetjen translates as the Son of the Human Being.[8] We see this dual anthropology in the Hebrew bible with its division of soul/self (or nephesh) and flesh (basar). In Greek this is soul/self (psyche) and body (soma). Jesus says, “Do not continue to fear those who kill the body (soma) but cannot kill the soul; but rather continue to fear the one who is able to destroy both soul and body in Gehenna” (Mt. 10:28). In a physical body Jesus is born in Bethlehem as part of the Jewish community where he teaches and heals those who come to him. Jesus also exists also as soul, as the divine breath that gives all creatures life, as the first human being of the new creation, as one who shows God's love for every person. He teaches that at the heart of all things lies forgiveness and grace. There are no people defined by their righteousness or sinfulness. At the deepest level of our existence we are connected to each other and to God. The novelist Marilynne Robinson writes about how in modern times some people claim that science shows that there are no non-material things, that we do not have a soul. In contrast she writes about our shared intuition that the soul's “non-physicality is no proof of its non-existence… [It is] the sacred and sanctifying aspect of human being. It is the self that stands apart from the self. It suffers injuries of a moral kind, when the self it is and is not lies or steals or murders but it is untouched by the accidents that maim the self or kill it.” She concludes writing, “I find the soul a valuable concept, a statement of the dignity of a human life and of the unutterable gravity of human action and experience.”[9] Can we have hope? Does life have meaning? Let me speak frankly. I see you might be the “sort of person who, on principle, no longer expects anything of anything.” But you have a soul. God is closer to us than we are to ourselves. At the heart of all reality exists the love of God. The more thankful we are, the more we receive the gift of hope. My last words come from a poem by Mary Oliver called “The Gift.” “Be still, my soul, and steadfast. / Earth and heaven both are still watching / though time is draining from the clock / and your walk, that was confident and quick, / has become slow.// So, be slow if you must, but let / the heart still play its true part. / Love still as you once loved, deeply / and without patience. Let God and the world / know you are grateful. That the gift has been given.”[10] [1] Italo Calvino, If on a Winter's Night a Traveller tr. William Weaver (London: Vintage Classics, 1981) 4. [2] Kieran Setiya, Life Is Hard: How Philosophy Can Help Us Find Our Way (NY: Riverhead Books, 2022) 173, 179, 180. [3] “The meaning of life” first appears in Thomas Carlyle's novel Sartor Resartus. Ibid., 153. [4] Rainer Maria Rilke, “Catch only what you've thrown yourself” in Hans-Georg Gadamer, Truth and Method, 2nd Revised Edition tr. Joel Weinsheimer and Donald G. Marshall (NY: Crossroad, 1992). [5] Herman Waetjen, Matthew's Theology of Fulfillment, Its Universality and Its Ethnicity: God's New Israel as the Pioneer of God's New Humanity (NY: Bloomsbury T&T Clark, 2017) 1-17. See also, https://www.biblememorygoal.com/how-many-chapters-verses-in-the-bible/ [6] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chesed [7] Ibid., 2. [8] Ibid., 7. [9] Marilynne Robinson, The Givenness of Things: Essays (NY: Picador, 2015) 8-9. [10] https://wildandpreciouslife0.wordpress.com/2016/09/27/the-gift-by-mary-oliver/

In his fascinating and painstakingly research new book Messianic Ideas and Movements in Sunni Islam (Oneworld Academic, 2022), the noted scholar of Islam Yohanan Friedmann details the religious thought and political movements of multiple actors who made messianic claims in premodern and modern Islam, spanning sites including South Asia, North Africa, and the Sudan. Over the course of this book, we learn extensively about a range of less known intellectual traditions-in Arabic, Persian, and Urdu-on questions of messianism and apocalypse in Muslim thought and history. Centered on the lives, messianic claims and aspirations, as well as the tensions and contradictions hovering over some of the most prominent Muslim actors across time and space, Friedmann highlights with glistening brilliance the importance of messianism to Sunni Islam. Throughout the book, Friedmann unleashes his signature prowess of presenting unexpected, finely grained, and yet eminently accessible readings of an encyclopedic reservoir of difficult texts and sources. SherAli Tareen is Associate Professor of Religious Studies at Franklin and Marshall College. His research focuses on Muslim intellectual traditions and debates in early modern and modern South Asia. His book Defending Muhammad in Modernity (University of Notre Dame Press, 2020) received the American Institute of Pakistan Studies 2020 Book Prize and was selected as a finalist for the 2021 American Academy of Religion Book Award. His other academic publications are available here. He can be reached at sherali.tareen@fandm.edu. Listener feedback is most welcome. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices Support our show by becoming a premium member! https://newbooksnetwork.supportingcast.fm/new-books-network

In his fascinating and painstakingly research new book Messianic Ideas and Movements in Sunni Islam (Oneworld Academic, 2022), the noted scholar of Islam Yohanan Friedmann details the religious thought and political movements of multiple actors who made messianic claims in premodern and modern Islam, spanning sites including South Asia, North Africa, and the Sudan. Over the course of this book, we learn extensively about a range of less known intellectual traditions-in Arabic, Persian, and Urdu-on questions of messianism and apocalypse in Muslim thought and history. Centered on the lives, messianic claims and aspirations, as well as the tensions and contradictions hovering over some of the most prominent Muslim actors across time and space, Friedmann highlights with glistening brilliance the importance of messianism to Sunni Islam. Throughout the book, Friedmann unleashes his signature prowess of presenting unexpected, finely grained, and yet eminently accessible readings of an encyclopedic reservoir of difficult texts and sources. SherAli Tareen is Associate Professor of Religious Studies at Franklin and Marshall College. His research focuses on Muslim intellectual traditions and debates in early modern and modern South Asia. His book Defending Muhammad in Modernity (University of Notre Dame Press, 2020) received the American Institute of Pakistan Studies 2020 Book Prize and was selected as a finalist for the 2021 American Academy of Religion Book Award. His other academic publications are available here. He can be reached at sherali.tareen@fandm.edu. Listener feedback is most welcome. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices Support our show by becoming a premium member! https://newbooksnetwork.supportingcast.fm/history

In his fascinating and painstakingly research new book Messianic Ideas and Movements in Sunni Islam (Oneworld Academic, 2022), the noted scholar of Islam Yohanan Friedmann details the religious thought and political movements of multiple actors who made messianic claims in premodern and modern Islam, spanning sites including South Asia, North Africa, and the Sudan. Over the course of this book, we learn extensively about a range of less known intellectual traditions-in Arabic, Persian, and Urdu-on questions of messianism and apocalypse in Muslim thought and history. Centered on the lives, messianic claims and aspirations, as well as the tensions and contradictions hovering over some of the most prominent Muslim actors across time and space, Friedmann highlights with glistening brilliance the importance of messianism to Sunni Islam. Throughout the book, Friedmann unleashes his signature prowess of presenting unexpected, finely grained, and yet eminently accessible readings of an encyclopedic reservoir of difficult texts and sources. SherAli Tareen is Associate Professor of Religious Studies at Franklin and Marshall College. His research focuses on Muslim intellectual traditions and debates in early modern and modern South Asia. His book Defending Muhammad in Modernity (University of Notre Dame Press, 2020) received the American Institute of Pakistan Studies 2020 Book Prize and was selected as a finalist for the 2021 American Academy of Religion Book Award. His other academic publications are available here. He can be reached at sherali.tareen@fandm.edu. Listener feedback is most welcome. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices Support our show by becoming a premium member! https://newbooksnetwork.supportingcast.fm/islamic-studies

In his fascinating and painstakingly research new book Messianic Ideas and Movements in Sunni Islam (Oneworld Academic, 2022), the noted scholar of Islam Yohanan Friedmann details the religious thought and political movements of multiple actors who made messianic claims in premodern and modern Islam, spanning sites including South Asia, North Africa, and the Sudan. Over the course of this book, we learn extensively about a range of less known intellectual traditions-in Arabic, Persian, and Urdu-on questions of messianism and apocalypse in Muslim thought and history. Centered on the lives, messianic claims and aspirations, as well as the tensions and contradictions hovering over some of the most prominent Muslim actors across time and space, Friedmann highlights with glistening brilliance the importance of messianism to Sunni Islam. Throughout the book, Friedmann unleashes his signature prowess of presenting unexpected, finely grained, and yet eminently accessible readings of an encyclopedic reservoir of difficult texts and sources. SherAli Tareen is Associate Professor of Religious Studies at Franklin and Marshall College. His research focuses on Muslim intellectual traditions and debates in early modern and modern South Asia. His book Defending Muhammad in Modernity (University of Notre Dame Press, 2020) received the American Institute of Pakistan Studies 2020 Book Prize and was selected as a finalist for the 2021 American Academy of Religion Book Award. His other academic publications are available here. He can be reached at sherali.tareen@fandm.edu. Listener feedback is most welcome. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices Support our show by becoming a premium member! https://newbooksnetwork.supportingcast.fm/middle-eastern-studies

In his fascinating and painstakingly research new book Messianic Ideas and Movements in Sunni Islam (Oneworld Academic, 2022), the noted scholar of Islam Yohanan Friedmann details the religious thought and political movements of multiple actors who made messianic claims in premodern and modern Islam, spanning sites including South Asia, North Africa, and the Sudan. Over the course of this book, we learn extensively about a range of less known intellectual traditions-in Arabic, Persian, and Urdu-on questions of messianism and apocalypse in Muslim thought and history. Centered on the lives, messianic claims and aspirations, as well as the tensions and contradictions hovering over some of the most prominent Muslim actors across time and space, Friedmann highlights with glistening brilliance the importance of messianism to Sunni Islam. Throughout the book, Friedmann unleashes his signature prowess of presenting unexpected, finely grained, and yet eminently accessible readings of an encyclopedic reservoir of difficult texts and sources. SherAli Tareen is Associate Professor of Religious Studies at Franklin and Marshall College. His research focuses on Muslim intellectual traditions and debates in early modern and modern South Asia. His book Defending Muhammad in Modernity (University of Notre Dame Press, 2020) received the American Institute of Pakistan Studies 2020 Book Prize and was selected as a finalist for the 2021 American Academy of Religion Book Award. His other academic publications are available here. He can be reached at sherali.tareen@fandm.edu. Listener feedback is most welcome. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices Support our show by becoming a premium member! https://newbooksnetwork.supportingcast.fm/intellectual-history

In his fascinating and painstakingly research new book Messianic Ideas and Movements in Sunni Islam (Oneworld Academic, 2022), the noted scholar of Islam Yohanan Friedmann details the religious thought and political movements of multiple actors who made messianic claims in premodern and modern Islam, spanning sites including South Asia, North Africa, and the Sudan. Over the course of this book, we learn extensively about a range of less known intellectual traditions-in Arabic, Persian, and Urdu-on questions of messianism and apocalypse in Muslim thought and history. Centered on the lives, messianic claims and aspirations, as well as the tensions and contradictions hovering over some of the most prominent Muslim actors across time and space, Friedmann highlights with glistening brilliance the importance of messianism to Sunni Islam. Throughout the book, Friedmann unleashes his signature prowess of presenting unexpected, finely grained, and yet eminently accessible readings of an encyclopedic reservoir of difficult texts and sources. SherAli Tareen is Associate Professor of Religious Studies at Franklin and Marshall College. His research focuses on Muslim intellectual traditions and debates in early modern and modern South Asia. His book Defending Muhammad in Modernity (University of Notre Dame Press, 2020) received the American Institute of Pakistan Studies 2020 Book Prize and was selected as a finalist for the 2021 American Academy of Religion Book Award. His other academic publications are available here. He can be reached at sherali.tareen@fandm.edu. Listener feedback is most welcome. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

In his fascinating and painstakingly research new book Messianic Ideas and Movements in Sunni Islam (Oneworld Academic, 2022), the noted scholar of Islam Yohanan Friedmann details the religious thought and political movements of multiple actors who made messianic claims in premodern and modern Islam, spanning sites including South Asia, North Africa, and the Sudan. Over the course of this book, we learn extensively about a range of less known intellectual traditions-in Arabic, Persian, and Urdu-on questions of messianism and apocalypse in Muslim thought and history. Centered on the lives, messianic claims and aspirations, as well as the tensions and contradictions hovering over some of the most prominent Muslim actors across time and space, Friedmann highlights with glistening brilliance the importance of messianism to Sunni Islam. Throughout the book, Friedmann unleashes his signature prowess of presenting unexpected, finely grained, and yet eminently accessible readings of an encyclopedic reservoir of difficult texts and sources. SherAli Tareen is Associate Professor of Religious Studies at Franklin and Marshall College. His research focuses on Muslim intellectual traditions and debates in early modern and modern South Asia. His book Defending Muhammad in Modernity (University of Notre Dame Press, 2020) received the American Institute of Pakistan Studies 2020 Book Prize and was selected as a finalist for the 2021 American Academy of Religion Book Award. His other academic publications are available here. He can be reached at sherali.tareen@fandm.edu. Listener feedback is most welcome. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices Support our show by becoming a premium member! https://newbooksnetwork.supportingcast.fm/south-asian-studies

In his fascinating and painstakingly research new book Messianic Ideas and Movements in Sunni Islam (Oneworld Academic, 2022), the noted scholar of Islam Yohanan Friedmann details the religious thought and political movements of multiple actors who made messianic claims in premodern and modern Islam, spanning sites including South Asia, North Africa, and the Sudan. Over the course of this book, we learn extensively about a range of less known intellectual traditions-in Arabic, Persian, and Urdu-on questions of messianism and apocalypse in Muslim thought and history. Centered on the lives, messianic claims and aspirations, as well as the tensions and contradictions hovering over some of the most prominent Muslim actors across time and space, Friedmann highlights with glistening brilliance the importance of messianism to Sunni Islam. Throughout the book, Friedmann unleashes his signature prowess of presenting unexpected, finely grained, and yet eminently accessible readings of an encyclopedic reservoir of difficult texts and sources. SherAli Tareen is Associate Professor of Religious Studies at Franklin and Marshall College. His research focuses on Muslim intellectual traditions and debates in early modern and modern South Asia. His book Defending Muhammad in Modernity (University of Notre Dame Press, 2020) received the American Institute of Pakistan Studies 2020 Book Prize and was selected as a finalist for the 2021 American Academy of Religion Book Award. His other academic publications are available here. He can be reached at sherali.tareen@fandm.edu. Listener feedback is most welcome. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices Support our show by becoming a premium member! https://newbooksnetwork.supportingcast.fm/religion

In his fascinating and painstakingly research new book Messianic Ideas and Movements in Sunni Islam (Oneworld Academic, 2022), the noted scholar of Islam Yohanan Friedmann details the religious thought and political movements of multiple actors who made messianic claims in premodern and modern Islam, spanning sites including South Asia, North Africa, and the Sudan. Over the course of this book, we learn extensively about a range of less known intellectual traditions-in Arabic, Persian, and Urdu-on questions of messianism and apocalypse in Muslim thought and history. Centered on the lives, messianic claims and aspirations, as well as the tensions and contradictions hovering over some of the most prominent Muslim actors across time and space, Friedmann highlights with glistening brilliance the importance of messianism to Sunni Islam. Throughout the book, Friedmann unleashes his signature prowess of presenting unexpected, finely grained, and yet eminently accessible readings of an encyclopedic reservoir of difficult texts and sources. SherAli Tareen is Associate Professor of Religious Studies at Franklin and Marshall College. His research focuses on Muslim intellectual traditions and debates in early modern and modern South Asia. His book Defending Muhammad in Modernity (University of Notre Dame Press, 2020) received the American Institute of Pakistan Studies 2020 Book Prize and was selected as a finalist for the 2021 American Academy of Religion Book Award. His other academic publications are available here. He can be reached at sherali.tareen@fandm.edu. Listener feedback is most welcome. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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