Jesus and the Jewish Roots of Mary: Unveiling the Mother of the Messiah

You simply cannot understand Mary without looking at her in her first-century Jewish context.

Contrary to what some people believe, the Catholic Church did not get its teachings about Mary from paganism. It got them from Judaism.

scholars arrive at seven days is by interpreting John’s references sequentially and adding the first four days to the “third day” (4 Days + 3 Days = 7 Days).

For Epiphanius, therefore, the Collyridians were committing idolatry by offering the sacrificial bread of the Eucharist to Mary.

For this reason, despite her sinlessness—or rather, precisely because she was preserved from all sin—Mary can truly declare that “God” is her “Savior”

If Jesus really is the new Adam and Mary really is the second Eve, then it is fitting that both of them would be free from sin,

She is also the queen mother of the Messiah’s kingdom.22

We have no other examples of a Jewish man addressing his own mother this way.

there was a Jewish tradition that the location of the lost Ark would one day be revealed.

New Testament scholar John Dominic Crossan: “Implicit in the title ‘woman’ is that her full destiny is to be the ‘woman’ of Genesis 3:15.”27