Jesus is Jewish: Why it Matters! July 9 Daytime
CLOSED COURSE
July 9
Jesus is Jewish: Why it Matters is an ONGROUND ONLY mini course held at the Messianic Studies Institute (4950 Morse Road, Columbus, Ohio 43230) from 9:00–11:30AM ONE TUESDAY: July 9.
Course Description:
Did you
know that Jesus is Jewish? Do you know Him for who He actually is? What is the
harm in remaking Jesus ('Yeshua' in Hebrew) in our own ethnic or cultural
images? Worse yet, what is the harm in remaking Yeshua into an abstract or
universal person with no ethnicity? Was His last name 'Christ', or is He the
promised Jewish Messiah, Son of David, Son of Abraham as Matthew once wrote?
Have we "very efficiently pared the claws of the Lion of Judah, certified
Him 'meek and mild', and recommended Him as a fitting household pet" as
Dorothy Sayers once wrote? If truth be known, when we let the Jewishness of
Jesus fade away—we let his very humanity fade away! In fact, as Philip Yancey
once wrote, slightly paraphrased here, "we can no more understand Jesus
apart from His Jewishness than we can understand Gandhi apart from his
Indianness". We need to go all the way back in history to rediscover Jesus
as a first-century Jew who wore a tallit and remained a Jew when He ascended
into heaven to sit down at the right hand of God the Father to inaugurate the
Kingdom of God!
Prerequisite:
None
Required Textbook:
None
Course Dates:
July 9
Your Instructor
Henri’s primary interests include the Biblical languages (specializing in Biblical Greek); the reciprocal relationship between the Tanakh and the New Covenant Scriptures; the study of the New Covenant Scriptures from the 'Within Judaism Perspective'; the Way of the LORD as a Biblical worldview and way of life; the origin, meaning, and instantiation of ekklēsia; the Jewish-Graeco-Roman milieu of the New Covenant Scriptures; 2nd Temple Jewish Literature, especially the 'Pseudepigrapha'; the full Good News; the kingship/kingdom of God; the letters of Paul; ancient rhetoric; hermeneutics; paradigms; and conceptual metaphor. He is a member of the SBL and the SPOSTST, and has served as an Adjunct Instructor of Biblical Greek and/or NT at the seminaries of Ashland and Capital University. Henri currently serves as the Academic Dean and Executive Director of MSI, as well as the Education Coordinator of Beth Messiah Congregation.