Sublime

Some Muslims—the numbers are uncertain—had been attracted to the new areas of Jewish settlement by the jobs made available by Jewish immigration and cultivation of land.

The number of Muslims who lived in the Jewish areas grew dramatically after the Jewish settlements blossomed not only because many Arabs were attracted to the newly settled areas and newly cultivated land but also because the Jewish presence improved health care, cut infant mortality, and expanded adult life expectancy.

that those who follow Schweitzer in placing Jesus within apocalyptic Jewish eschatology belong in a category distinct from those who do not;3 and that this category is where the real leading edge of contemporary Jesus-scholarship is to be found.

ethnos (usually translated as “nation”) is used in the New Testament to capture the idea of people who make up different groups based on a common history, language, or geographic region.

As Western culture increases its speed in the race away from Christendom, as hostility to orthodox and evangelical Christianity increases and becomes increasingly legislated, we will eventually see a separation of the men from the boys. Which pastors will cave to worldly wisdom in fear for their own livelihoods and comfort, and which will fear God,

faculty line up their intellectual loves with their desire to instill their particular vision of orthodoxy or their desire to form students in a theological radicalism that they believe will free us from the problems of orthodoxy.

it was a statement of resistance.