{"id":17666,"date":"2019-01-09T09:33:14","date_gmt":"2019-01-09T14:33:14","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/co2mannatoday.com\/?p=17666"},"modified":"2019-01-09T09:45:46","modified_gmt":"2019-01-09T14:45:46","slug":"jesus-hermeneutic","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/co2mannatoday.com\/?p=17666","title":{"rendered":"Jesus\u2019 Hermeneutic"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" width=\"560\" height=\"315\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/haQ1earucJ0\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p><strong>Jesus\u2019 Hermeneutic<\/strong><br \/>\nWednesday, January 9, 2019<\/p>\n<p>Jesus\u2019 approach to interpreting sacred text was radical for his time, yet honored his own Hebrew Bible (or what Christians call the Old Testament). Even though Jesus\u2019 use of Scripture is plain enough for us to see in the Gospels, many Christians are accustomed to reading the Bible in a very different way. We simply haven\u2019t paid attention and connected the dots! Over the next couple days, I\u2019ll share some examples that reveal Jesus\u2019 hermeneutic so that we might follow his methodology:<\/p>\n<p>Jesus actually does not quote Scripture that much! In fact, he is criticized for not doing this: \u201cyou teach with [inner] authority and not like our own scribes\u201d (Mark 1:22).<br \/>\nJesus talks much more out of his own experience of God and humanity instead of teaching like the scribes and Pharisees, who operated out of their own form of case law by quoting previous sources.<br \/>\nJesus often uses what appear to be non-Jewish or non-canonical sources, or at least sources scholars cannot verify. For example, \u201cIt is not the healthy who need the doctor, but the sick do\u201d (see Mark 2:17, Matthew 9:12, and Luke 5:31), or the parable of the rich man and Lazarus (see Luke 16:19-31). His bandwidth of authority and attention is much wider than sola Scriptura. He even quotes some sources seemingly incorrectly (for example, John 10:34)!<br \/>\nJesus never once quotes from nineteen of the books in his own Scriptures. In fact, he appears to use a very few favorites: Exodus, Deuteronomy, Isaiah, Hosea, and Psalms\u2014and those are overwhelmingly in Matthew\u2019s Gospel, which was directed to a Jewish audience.<br \/>\nJesus appears to ignore most of his own Bible, yet it clearly formed his whole consciousness. That is the paradox. If we look at what he ignores, it includes any passages\u2014of which there are many\u2014that appear to legitimate violence, imperialism, exclusion, purity, and dietary laws. Jesus is a biblically formed non-Bible quoter who gets the deeper stream, the spirit, the trajectory of his Jewish history and never settles for mere surface readings.<br \/>\nWhen Jesus does once quote Leviticus, he quotes the one positive mandate among long lists of negative ones: \u201cYou must love your neighbor as yourself\u201d (Leviticus 19:18).<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Jesus\u2019 Hermeneutic Wednesday, January 9, 2019 Jesus\u2019 approach to interpreting sacred text was radical for his time, yet honored his own Hebrew Bible (or what Christians call the Old Testament). Even though Jesus\u2019 use of Scripture is plain enough for us to see in the Gospels, many Christians are accustomed to reading the Bible in [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[1],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/co2mannatoday.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17666"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/co2mannatoday.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/co2mannatoday.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/co2mannatoday.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/co2mannatoday.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=17666"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/co2mannatoday.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17666\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":17669,"href":"https:\/\/co2mannatoday.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17666\/revisions\/17669"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/co2mannatoday.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=17666"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/co2mannatoday.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=17666"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/co2mannatoday.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=17666"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}