Over the last few posts, I have been dealing with topics addressed in Oskar Skarsaune’s book, In The Shadow of the Temple. In this post I would like to address another such topic. In order to do so we must first look at the teachings of Jesus which are relevant to this discussion. They are …
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In my previous post, I began examining where the Gentile dominated church began to ignore Paul’s warning in Romans 11 of becoming arrogant in their engrafting into the covenant people of God. But if some of the branches were broken off, and you, although a wild olive shoot, were grafted in among the others and …
The other day I reviewed the excellent work, In the Shadow of the Temple, by Oskar Skarsaune. Today, I would like to elaborate on a few of his thoughts in regard to the place of Jews and Gentiles in the people of God. In looking at the development of Christianity in the years after the …
In the Shadow of the Temple : Jewish influences on early Christianity by Oskar Skaursaune 455 Pages InterVarsity Press, 2002 Until reading this book, I was totally unaware of Skarsaune and his literary offerings. Now, I realize how deprived I have been. In In the Shadow of the Temple, Skarsaune begins his account of the …
