A Comparative Study of the Sermon on the Mount in Matthew, Mark, Luke and John

A 10-week look into the sayings that Matthew's Sermon on the Mount shares with the other Gospels

with Bible teacher Galen Goldsmith, MAR, Mphil

10-week AUDIO/VIDEO live course via Zoom.
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THURSDAYS beginning, July 6, 2023 at 8pm ET (7pm CT, 6pm MT, 5pm PT, 0100hrs Friday GMT) each session 1 hour
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Description: This is a class that will require students to do some homework in order to make thoughtful comparisons between sayings that Matthew’s Sermon on the Mount shares with other Gospels. We will not comment on Matthew’s sayings ourselves, but we will see how other gospels have interpreted them in a variety of ways. When we do this, we begin to understand that the issues Matthew’s Sermon takes up can be interpreted in more than one way. When we find complexity instead of a single view of any issue, that provokes us to think about it more carefully and more fully. When we do this, we should get a wider view of that problem in the world of Jesus, and of what it may mean to us. Also, we will get to know the different voice of each evangelist because we have looked quite closely at what he has to say.  In that way we learn a little bit about each gospel in its own integrity, and begin to distinguish its viewpoint from the others. We will not attempt to comment on Matthew’s sermon directly,  but will learn about the perspectives other gospels have in passages they share with it, so that our comprehension will be enriched.

Objectives:
(1) To learn to compare the different versions of the Gospels to one another,.
(2) To recognize the characteristic interests of each separate Gospel.
(3) To gain a full idea of Jesus and the world he lived in by synthesizing information from different gospels.

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Galen Goldsmith has a BA in Philosophy from Colorado College, MAR in Biblical Studies from Iliff School of Theology, and MPhil in Classical Hebrew Exegesis from Cambridge University in England. She is proficient in Hebrew and has studied Greek, Aramaic, Akkadian, and is learning to read Egyptian hieroglypics! She once read the entire Bible in its original languages. Between 2008 and 2017 she wrote explanations of why English translations differ on every verse of interest in the Old Testament and New Testament for the "Meaning and Manuscript" window of the free online bible study site, "Scriptural Tools for Every Person" (STEP) at https://stepbible.org/html/en-28.html STEP is produced and published by Tyndale House Library, Cambridge. After many years of preliminary work, Galen has been researching and writing a book about a biblical Hebrew topic full time since August of 2017 and is preparing the manuscript for peer review in 2021. For this project she was a Visiting Research Fellow at the Rothberg International School, Hebrew University of Jerusalem and lived in Jerusalem for a total of 16 months in 2014, 2018-19 and 2019-2020.

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