re: #41 William Lewis

Learn a bit about how Rabbis teach, and especially their use of hyperbole, and look at those passages again.

Fair enough; there’s also a school of thought that Jesus was an itinerant apocalyptic preacher, in the tradition of Isiah, Ezekiel, Jeremiah, etc.

Certainly, it’s no secret that apocalypticism was rampant* in First Century CE Judea.

* hmm……sounds eerily familiar