Nov 28, 2024 · Further, he charged his disciples to “do this in remembrance of me” (Luke 22:19), meaning Jesus’ followers were to partake of bread and wine and remember him. Jesus’ Last Supper in the Bible is the foundation for the Christian tradition of taking communion—known as the Lord’s Supper, the Holy Communion and the Eucharist.

Nov 5, 2024 · The slaying of the Lamb takes place as the sun is setting and then the Lamb is eaten that evening (which is the 1st day of Unleavened Bread) during Sabbath. Since the 1st day was a Sabbath, the Jews would not have violated the Sabbath. Remember how the thieves and The Christ were taken down before the Sabbath commenced.

Mar 19, 2023 · PORTRAIT OF A ROMAN LADY. This mosaic comes from Pompeii, Italy, and depicts a woman from the late first century B.C.E. or early first century C.E. Photo: Dominik Matus/CC by SA-4.0.

Mar 31, 2024 · For readers who want to consider an academic counter-argument, the most forceful one I know is by Joel Marcus of Duke University Divinity School: “Passover and Last Supper Revisited,” New Testament Studies 59.3 (2013), pp. 303–324.

Feb 12, 2023 · Although the New Testament as we know it is essentially a “collage” of various surviving manuscripts, it relies heavily on one particular, parchment manuscript—the fourth-century Codex Vaticanus, or the Vatican Codex.

Sep 17, 2024 · The Qeiyafa Ostracon and Gezer Calendar are the best known contenders that Christopher Rollston examines. The five-line Qeiyafa Ostracon** has garnered a great deal of attention since its 2008 excavation at Khirbet Qeiyafa, the fortified tenth century B.C.E. Judahite city located on the border of Judah and Philistia.

Nov 17, 2023 · Rather, Paul saw God’s law as applicable to everyone (Romans 2:13). The key is Romans 7:14: God’s law was spiritual and derived from heaven.

Nov 17, 2023 · Why Paul preached to both Jew and Gentile. You can say Paul was a messianic Jew of sorts, but if you read 1 Corinthians 9:20–21 carefully, it becomes clear just how odd it would be for someone born a Jew in the first century to say:

Jan 14, 2025 · By: James Tabor James Tabor suggests that in the same way the basic apocalyptic texts of the Dead Sea Scrolls have as their historical reference points the parties and politics of the mid-1st century BCE, the Ur-text of revelation is most likely composed against the backdrop of local events in Judea in the 40s and 50s CE–and has little to do with Rome and its …

Dec 12, 2017 · The Didache, also known as the Teaching of the Twelve Apostles, is mentioned by several church fathers of the fourth century, but it was not available to scholars until 1873 when it was discovered in an 11th-century Greek codex.