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Jesper Svartvik
Jesper Svartvik is a biblical scholar who taught in Jerusalem for a decade. He is currently a visiting professor in Jewish-Christian relations at Boston College.
Job’s search for a just court (Job 23:1-9, 16-17)
He yearns to be able to lay his case before God.
Job scrapes for answers (Job 1:1, 2:1-10)
It is as if every person who asks why bad things happen to good people takes a potsherd and starts scraping.
The New Testament’s most dangerous book for Jews
Reading and preaching Hebrews without supersessionism
October 3, Ordinary 27B (Hebrews 1:1-4, 2:5-12)
Israel’s claim that all people are created in God’s image is strikingly egalitarian.
October 10, Ordinary 28B (Hebrews 4:12-16)
The purpose of the word of God is not to make us feel condemnable, but to help us see what is commendable.
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