Also, they are known to be the predecessors of the rabbinic community after the Fall of the Temple in Jerusalem in 70 AD. The Pharisees were very important in the community and in history. They played a key role in the development of Judaism. Recognizing their collective goodness does not ...
The first temple we hear about this morning is the physical temple, the one that was standing in Jerusalem, the centerpiece of religion, culture, as what theologian NT Wright has described as the “heartbeat of Jerusalem.” The temple was the place where God and people met. There the veil...
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After Redeemer’s new organist completed his first Sunday service of the new church year, I bounced up to the organ dais and declared, “I like your snappy style. Those hymns bounced right along—no slouching to Jerusalem here!” I wasn’t alone. Several others of the choir had rushed th...
“Pliada” for the showers, as perhaps did Statius in his Pliadamovere; while Josephus states, among his very few stellar allusions, that during the investment of Jerusalem by Antiochus Epiphanes, 170 B.C., the besieged suffered from want of water, but were finally relieved “by a large ...
tracing the legends and weighing evidence to see where Mary went after the Jerusalem church scattered. McNutt never devolves into unfounded speculation or deviates from her goal of helping us see Mary, the real Mary, more clearly. By helping us locate Mary’s place in the story of Jesus, ...
The theme of the Variations movement is described in the Bennington program notes as a “solemn, lyrical hymn”. But there is much more to it than that. The theme is from the fifth of Tchaikovsky’s “Sixteen Songs for Children”, Opus 54, composed in 1883. The text that Tchaikovsky set...
Christ wasn’t born in Rome or even the holy city of Jerusalem, but twenty-five miles away in theinsignificanttown of Bethlehem, mentioned in Micah as small among the Jewish clans, an unimportant village. His birth wasn’t heralded through the streets by the town crier, but first announced...
and give us the sign plain before our eyes, that even when in the city we may behold the place. And the Prophet again makes answer, saying:And His feet shall stand in that day upon the Mount of Olives which is before Jerusalem on the east. Does any one standing within the city fail...