Summary or New Testament From Jewish Point of View Class - 8/1/2022

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It’s August already!  Time has flown by.  This group has been studying together since October of 2021. We began with Romans since the Tanach study group had already read the gospels and Acts, skipped to James, and then we did both 1st and 2nd Corinthians, and Galatians.  So…now it’s on to Ephesians.  

(We did spent last week reading the essay on Messianic Judaism from the Jewish Annotated New Testament.)

Again we had a lively and very fun time together!  Jo Ann, Dan, Steve, Karen, Merrill, Dave, David P., David S., (THREE DAVIDS!), Odette, Norky, and Robin attended.  It was David S.’s first time joining us and it was great to have him with us!

As usual, after visiting a bit before 9:45, Dan led us in our traditional opening song “Give Me That Old Time Religion.”

Below is a summary, written by Dan, of what went on:

We had a discussion of the introduction of the letter to the Ephesians from the Annotated New Testament.

There was a discussion about whether the apostle Paul wrote this letter, which has been accepted by Christians for thousands of year, but is thought by scholars to be a later writing by someone other that Paul.  There was some comment was regarding the idea that the Torah was abolished, which was described as the breaking down of the wall of separation between Jew and Gentile. But the most discussion was regarding the notion that wives needed to be "subject to" or obedient to their husbands. This idea was not well received for some reason. We look forward to getting further into the content of the letter next week.

We ended our meeting with our usual singing of Debbie Friedman’s Misheberach Jewish healing prayer.  

Again, if there is anything to add to this summary, please comment.

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