Jesus was not a Christian. He was a Jew at odds with the official representatives of Jewish religious tradition. In his experience, the temple rituals of purification were defiling. Sacrificing birds and lambs, which had to be purchased with a…
What’s Cyrus have to do with Advent?
As the semester comes to a close for me, I am able to do a bit of reflecting on the work I’ve done and what I’ve read. One line from Xenophon’s Cyropaedia in particular stood out to me: For I…