Worldly Wisdom and Foolish Grace. Barbara Carnegie Campbell
vein as Rabbi Jesus.
As the Younger Testament states, Rabbi Jesus probably did not intend to abolish one “stroke of a letter” of the law. (Matt 5:18) He did, however, set his teachings from Torah into new contexts to make them come alive for his contemporary audiences. He created unique, interpretive stories, “midrash,” in other words, which had such a powerful impact on his followers that they were included, over a thousand years later, in the Bible as the Younger Testament alongside the Elder Testament of Torah, Prophets, and Wisdom Literature.
I use the terms “Elder” and “Younger” Testaments to remind us that the more common terms “Old” and “New” Testament are offensive to our Jewish brothers and sisters. The term “old” can carry the connotation of something that is no longer preferable or relevant as opposed to the word “new” that connotes something that is “better” and has replaced that which was “old.” “Old Testament” and “New Testament” perpetuate the understanding that Christianity somehow replaces or is better than Judaism.
1. Merriam, Ninth, 1354.
2. Merriam, Ninth, 530.
3. Pelican, Judaism, xi-xv.
4. Merriam, Ninth, 429.
5. Tickle, Emergence, 137.
6. BBC, “Human Genome”.
7. Encyclopedia Brittanica, “Biblical Criticism”.
8. Zaslow, Roots, 12.
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