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      • Rev Dr L Parkinson
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Background​

Worship Resources > Torah Talkback
BACKGROUND TO THIS MATERIAL
  • The Mount of the Beatitudes overlooks the Sea of Galilee. Tradition has it that this was a site on which Jesus addressed open air gatherings.
  • Jesus was a Galilean, who grew up in Nazareth. He was a Jewish teacher (hence addressed as ‘rabbi’) and steeped in the Law or ‘Torah’. In these readings we use the name by which he would have been known – Yeshua ben-Yosef. (‘Jesus’ is a Latinised version of his name)
  • His teachings were not in any way repudiations of this ‘Torah’, but looked at the implications of Torah for his day and audience.
  • Every one of his axioms – whether offered as propositions like the Beatitudes or much more teasingly like the parables – was not delivered with the idea of scuttling discussion but stimulating it.
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