Thoughts on Scripture, Greek & Hebrew, ministry, theology, and following Jesus.
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I'm JC Schroeder and I'm an instructor at The Ezekiel Project School of Evangelism as well as an adjunct professor at Cornerstone University. I am also working on a Th.M. at Grand Rapids Theological Seminary.
I am married to the love of my life, Kelly, and we have two wonderful children. I enjoy photography, baseball, board games, ping pong, and reading. I teach courses on the New Testament, Greek, and hermeneutics. I also preach regularly at my home church as well as other churches.
A book that I find very helpful in understanding more of the background of the gospels is SITTING AT THE FEET OF RABBI JESUS: How the Jewishness of Jesus Can Transform Your Faith. This is by Ann Spangler and Lois Tverberg. Jesus and his disciples were all Jewish, and devout ones at that. I’m reading through it a secon time and it’s enlightening as to how Jesus’ hearers would have understood Him from the mindset of their Jewish biblical beliefs. It’s amazing how much of Jesus teaching is built around the Old Testament as it was understood in the first century. Well researched and documented.
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Thanks! Great reading list! Here's a good one, highly regarded, beautifully organized and thorough. It's emphasis is on the Greco-Roman world + Judaism. Covers a LOT of ground. "Backgrounds of Early Christianity" by Everett Ferguson. Copyrights 1987, 1993, 2003. 672 pp. Synopsis: Having long served as a standard introduction to the world of the early church, Everett Ferguson's Backgrounds of Early Christianity has been expanded and updated in this third edition. The book explores and unpacks the Roman, Greek, and Jewish political, social, religious, and philosophical backgrounds necessary for a good historical understanding of the New Testament and the early church. New to this edition are revisions of Ferguson's original material, updated bibliographies, and fresh discussions of first-century social life, of Gnosticism, and of the Dead Sea Scrolls and other Jewish literature.
When a God wants praise in the midst of a persons Pain, Sorrow and troubles. This is exactly what a Narcissist would do. I stopped praying not because I didn't have faith, because it takes faith to pray to an unseen God. I stopped praying when I realized that God had to be hearing my prayers in order to intentionally ignore them with complete indifference, Prejudice and Hostility. Faith means nothing to a Malevolent Narcissist.
I bought the Learning Biblical Hebrew text and workbook. So exciting! Also bought the BDB Lexicon…. I’m taking my first online class (or first class ever, since high school-some 40+ years ago). Thank you so very much for your instruction,
I’m currently reading and am enjoying N.T. Wright’s “The New Testament in Its World.” Wright writes with style and the book has lots of pictures, too. I also have most of the books you’ve mentioned but haven’t read yet. Great list and definitely very helpful! Thanks!
Great video! You did a perfect job giving short and concise intros and descriptions of the different books and mentioning their strengths and weaknesses. This is how a video like this should be structured! ⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️
One of my favorite novels is The Sparrow by Mary Doria Russell. It's a compelling novel about a Franciscan priest accompanying an expedition to a new world. It also has much to say about the place of suffering in the world, and how we handle it when we suffer greatly.
I, too, had never thought of the cost of a letter, how dear it must have been to Paul. It also makes me think of all the trials he suffered and, in the midst of those, how important he thought it was to communicate the gospel and guide the church. We are truly blessed to be able to pick up a bible (or more) and have it in a language accessible to us!
Sometimes my thoughts are if we focus too much on culture we use the excuse God's Word applied to them but not to us. I like application bibles. How God speaks to us today through His Word. I have a Cultural Background Study Bible and find it distracting. I don't care about the different gods etc. I just know what God says not to worship other gods or idols. Max Lucado Study Bibles are good and David Jeremiah Study Bible.
This episode was a blessing to me, I’m a reformed pastor in Brazil trying to learn more how to teach Hebrew, and man, this episode give me so much insights. Thanks 🙏🏻
Great video! I do have a question….with all of that being said, do you think that the cost would’ve caused the authors to reduce characters that they other wise wouldn’t have if the cost wasn’t suspected to be as high as it was?
Don't waste time on "Biblical Hebrew" which is only a one facet (out of few) of the Hebrew language. Just learn Hebrew. When you have Hebrew you can very easily master the biblical text. On the other hand, if you even master the "Biblical Hebrew", you will not be able to understand modern Hebrew.
It is your opinion,so don't discourage him or others, because you don't think so,besides biblical hebrew is not useless if you trying to understand Bible better or another sources written in the ancient hebrew, because modern hebrew has lost a few grammatical devices,that are not used in modern hebrew and in transcribing Bible into modern hebrew your comprehension of it will be a little bit disproportional in terms of meaning of particular grammatical syntax in certain words and phrases in text itself and so on.
@@Ғарыштық You're right' if you want to understand the bible you need to learn the biblical Hebrew. All I said is that if you master modern Hebrew, the biblical way pf expression ("biblical Hebrew") will be very easy for you to understand. Every Israeli child understands the bible language after a very short time of learning, all because he is a native Hebrew speaker
@@ashershaham Yes of course, but for me personally I am not interested in modern hebrew and reasons are simply subjective for instance:I don't like phonetics of modern hebrew,because they are not very variable in sense of sound abilities,which biblical hebrew has and other is that I want strictly to understand the Bible and not to speak with jews in Israel or to know the language simply to read a book or to go to Israel and be able to read signes there.I am more interested in Biblical comprehansion and maybe writing for myself in biblical hebrew just for fun purposes.
@@Ғарыштық Modern and biblical Hebrew sound exactly the same. It depends on your personal preference and the accent you choose. Like American or British English, very similar but a bit different. However, if you study modern Hebrew, the Bible becomes very easy
@@ashershaham I don't agree,that they sound the same,because modern hebrew doesn't have sounds like[θˌβˌħˌqˌɬˌɣˌʔˌð and so on]I know that the Biblical hebrew had and has many variants,but this is known to be the standard usually and most commonly met variant of biblical hebrew.The currant version of hebrew is based upon Yidish pronouciation used by jews living in Europe and other countries beside the Mizrahi jews.
They're all good recommendations and there are plenty more so he did a good job in keeping the list down. Which one are you looking for? I have all of these and got most of them from Amazon. If you are new to Hebrew I would start with Chisholm and go to DailyDoseOfHebrew to learn and follow along
It's good you have cost in today's dollars - but it would have been even better to include the original price and how that price related to ancient people daily/monthly salary. $2275 dollars - is that a 2 months salary or a two week salary?
Considering also that it is never going to be good to live your family, your children, the people that you have responsibility alone in the house because one believe that God dwells in church or seminnary. I do everything online know and I come more for education. Blessed be the people that publish content.
I find the use of קטל (slaughter) as a paradigm source, totally incongruent with the mind of Elohim or the teachings of Yehoshua haMashiach. Though I realise that this use started a long time ago - it is not a good choice of verb to inculcate with the study of Hebrew and haDavar Elohim.
What is the Program that you are using to view both Hebrew and Septuagint verses next to each other? Did you create this yourself or is there an app to do this?
its really important to help people understand that God has called us in diffeeent offices, if we all pile up on the pulpit will miss very helpful and critical services like yours, keep it up pliz, am Emmanuel from Zambia
Unfortunately, I can't trust anything published by Zondervan, Thomas Nelson, or Harper Collins after finding out that they're all quietly owned by Rupert Murdoch via multi-layered corportations. He's been described as an evil man by secular sources. He aired the show LUCIFER in 2016 and even sells the SATANIC BIBLE on the HarperCollins website. "Now the serpent was more subtle than any of the beasts of the earth which the Lord God made."
