In production
The Jewishness of Jesus.
Placing Jesus’ life on the canopy of His own Jewish culture and first-century background — which changes how you read His early life, His miracles, His parables, His death, His resurrection, and the spread of the Gospel into the world.
The premise
God placed His only Son in the heart of Judaism.
Dr. Ross blames Jesus’ Jewishness on His Heavenly Father — for it was God who sent His Son “born under the Law” (Galatians 4:4). At the spiritual height of Judaism. And Jesus became a Rabbi among Rabbis.
Read that way, a great many familiar interpretations shift. The parables stop being general moral stories and become arguments inside a specific culture. The miracles land on people with names and occupations and villages you can visit.
What the teaching covers
Six threads, one canopy.
- 01
First-century Judaism
The world Jesus was born into — synagogue, Temple, festival calendar, the schools of the rabbis, and the political weather of Roman Judea.
- 02
Rabbi among rabbis
How Jesus taught, and why the form of His teaching is recognisable to anyone who knows the rabbinic method.
- 03
The parables in context
Agriculture, inheritance law, wedding custom, debt and patronage — the assumptions the first hearers brought and we do not.
- 04
The festivals
Passover, Tabernacles, Hanukkah and the rest — and how much of the Gospel of John is keyed to them.
- 05
Israel: whose Land?
A subject Dr. Ross teaches in seminaries and churches, alongside Israel and prophecy.
- 06
The Lordship of Christ
Where the study lands: a daily walk with a living Lord, not a set of new facts.
Be told first
The online course is being produced now.
Web subscriptions will open when it is finished. Leave your email and Dr. Ross will let you know.
Next step
Meet the Jewish Jesus in His own context.
Until the course opens, the armchair tour teaches the same thing on the ground it happened on.
Or call Dr. Ross directly — 214-801-3681