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

the confrontation between Jesus and Judaism in terms of Jesus’ reclamation of a key part of the Jewish heritage itself. One of the clearest exponents of this point of view is Marcus Borg.36 For him, Jesus claims the high ground of fulfilment of the Jewish scriptures, in particular the prophets, while challenging head-on several aspects of the actua

One of the worst things Protestants say about Catholics is that they worship the Virgin. Catholics are very sure to make clear they don’t worship the Virgin—they venerate the Virgin. There’s a difference. When you recite the litany, you ask the Virgin, “Have mercy on us,” you say, “Pray for us.” So she is an intermediary; we’re keeping women in the

The second important fact for our consideration is that Jesus was a poor Jew. There is recorded in Luke the account of the dedication of Jesus at the temple: “And when the days of her purification according to the law of Moses were accomplished, they brought him … to the Lord; (as it is written in the law of the Lord, Every male that openeth the wo

A Conversation with Mary, Jesus’ Mother