Part Two: The Faith of Jesus
Biblical Geography on Video
Part Two: The Faith of Jesus
Biblical Geography on Video
 The
faith of Jesus was Judaism, which originated in the experience of
ancient Israel. We start on the Nazareth ridge, where Jesus would
have played as a boy, for a view over the landscape that shaped a crucial
battle between his ancestors and the Canaanites. ("The Song of Deborah",
Judges5.)
From here we move back to the roots of the covenant faith: to the role
of the desert in shaping early Israel’s experience. We then explore
the transition from nomadism, where God was the only king, to agriculture
and human monarchy. On the tel of Beth Shean, we study the landscape
of Saul’s defeat at the hands of the Philistines. We then move through
the account of David’s conquests and Solomon’s wealth to the split in the
kingdom, culminating in the death of Josiah at Megiddo - the background
for Ar-mageddon. After the disintegration of the original Israelite community,
the new focus on the individual life (as in the prophets Jeremiah and Ezekiel)
led finally to the redefinition of the covenant faith by Jesus on the Mt.
of Beatitudes. We return, therefore, to that place, that teaching.
Jesus’ stress on purity of heart leads us into Part
Three.
(46 minutes) |
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