505: The Four Pillars — Discipleship

About this episode

Marty Solomon and Brent Billings discuss the historical setting and practice of discipleship as part of BEMA's four pillars.

Marty Solomon and Brent Billings look at the third of BEMA’s four pillars, being challenged by the historical setting and practice of discipleship. The Life and Times of Jesus the Messiah by Alfred Edersheim Nahum M. Sarna — Wikipedia Shmuel Safrai — Wikipedia David Flusser — Wikipedia Quest for the Historical Jesus — Wikipedia Albert Schweitzer — Wikipedia Rudolf Bultmann — Wikipedia Dead Sea Scrolls — Wikipedia N. T. Wright — Wikipedia E. P. Sanders — Wikipedia The Jesus Quest by Ben Witherington III Second Temple Judaism — Wikipedia Scholasticism — Wikipedia Support The BEMA Podcast

People in this episode

Host: Marty Solomon

Guest: Brent Billings

Topics covered

• discipleship
• historical context
• Christian teachings
• BEMA pillars
• Jesus studies

Keywords

• discipleship
• historical Jesus
• BEMA Podcast
• Christianity
• Second Temple Judaism

Mentioned in this episode

Books & works: The Life and Times of Jesus the Messiah, Quest for the Historical Jesus, The Jesus Quest, Second Temple Judaism, Scholasticism

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