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Although Western culture has been shaped for centuries by Christian teaching, a closer study of the Bible reveals that we routinely ignore the uncomfortable heart of New Testament ethics. It's too extreme, too confrontational. Even Christians pander to the world's way of thinking, making the astonishing bland.
- Sales Rank: #944658 in Books
- Published on: 2012-05-08
- Original language: English
- Number of items: 1
- Dimensions: 7.75" h x 5.00" w x .50" l, .45 pounds
- Binding: Paperback
- 192 pages
About the Author
The Revd Dr David Instone-Brewer is Senior Research Fellow and Technical Officer at Tyndale House, Cambridge. A Baptist minister, his hobby is computer programming. A rabbinic scholar, he is author of many academic and popular articles, and of Divorce and Remarriage in the Church: Biblical Solutions for Pastoral Realities (Paternoster, 2003).
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3 of 3 people found the following review helpful.
The Life and Times...
By Tom D
This book fits best in the context of trying to understand the secular and religious world into which Jesus was born and lived. I was tempted to give it three stars because it's chatty to the point of irrelevance and occasionally off the mark. But I gave it 4 because when it's on, it's worth the read. The Jesus Scandals is not on academic par with Instone-Brewer's Divorce and Remarriage in the Church, summarized in a chapter in Scandals. It's a short, easy read.
An "off the mark" as well as chatty chapter for example, Is "Unfair Loans." The problems related to loans are described including Deuteronomy 23:20's prohibition against Jews charging fellow Jews interest and the various requirements for forgiveness of outstanding debts. Described is how this was circumvented by loaning money to the Temple and the priests would re-loan it to the poor to get around the forgiveness statutes they decided did not apply to the Temple. None of that is connected to Jesus in the text. The author offers that in the 1500's one family finally concluded that 5% interest was normative, interesting but irrelevant in context. Within the chapter the author speculates about the meaning of Luke 16:1-9, the parable of the unrighteous or dishonest steward, but speculates is the sense, there's nothing revealing in the tentative conclusion and certainly nothing "scandalous".
The chapter "Contemplating Suicide" is perplexing, suggesting but never supporting a thought no orthodox theologian would entertain.
Similarly the chapter on Mary Magdalene is far more about the misguided ramblings of the modern era and the chapter can be summed up in one of the final paragraphs:"It's this rewriting of her history that is the real scandal surrounding Mary Magdalen..."
Other chapters are more on track. Fraudulent Miracles sets the context for when Jesus' miracles were public and when he preferred to keep them private. Instone-Brewer's reference to the Greek word splagchnizomai, which he translates as "gut-wrenching" is a small revelation, the kind of thing that makes the book worth the time. Similarly "Shameful Execution" offers an though provoking context for crucifixion.
So it's a cheap short read with a half dozen nuggets that make it worth the effort.
4 of 5 people found the following review helpful.
The Shock of Jesus
By Nick Peters
Back around Easter, I was listening to the radio program "Unbelievable?" when I heard that there was a give away of David Instone-Brewer's book "The Jesus Scandals." I was quite anxious to get it and thus entered the contest to win one of a number of copies given away. Fortunately, I happened to be one of the names drawn. It was only recently found out that the American winners had not yet received their copies so just a week or so ago, I got my copy.
The idea of the Jesus Scandals is that the gospels are more authentic due to the scandalous facts about the life of Jesus. Some of these we might not really think about in our Western society. For instance, I have a number of male friends who are not married. At this age, that can be common. In the time of the Jews, this was something to be avoided. After all, everyone was expected to be married and if you weren't, there had to be some strongly negative reason for that. The main one that would be pointed to would be Jesus's parentage. (Yeah right. Born of a virgin?) If your atheist friends are skeptical of this, it would not have been any different in a Jewish society. I have often been asked "Would you believe your spouse if she was pregnant and said it was of the Holy Spirit?" I would be hard-pressed in that situation and would probably be like Joseph and need a dream from God to believe otherwise.
We must keep in mind after all that the Bible only gives us snapshots of what happened. When Mary told Joseph about what happened, we can be sure that Joseph did not believe it immediately since it took a dream from God to stop his plans from divorcing her. Imagine then how it would be for Jesus in His ministry, especially when it was asked whose son He was and have the questioner be told "The son of Joseph, you know, THAT Joseph." Jesus had a huge black mark against Him.
Yet in the gospels, none of this is denied. The virgin birth is there to explain what happened and it would hardly have drawn sympathy. It would have made more sense to say something like "It was a tragedy that this young Jewish woman named Mary was raped, but the child grew up anyway and Joseph was a noble father who raised him like his own." No. Instead, it goes for the route that skepticism would go against, and that was that Jesus was of divine origin.
Why would the gospels contain such scandalous events? Because they could not be denied. These were events that were known by the common populace. The gospel authors had to explain them. They chose an odd way by affirming each of them, including the crucifixion and resurrection. I think a work like this could be read in tandem with J.P. Holding's "The Impossible Faith" to great benefit.
I do appreciate that Instone-Brewer has a chapter on disabilities in there. As many know, my wife and I both have Asperger's, and it made me consider that both of us would be shunned in the time of Jesus, but as we know today, we are not shunned. We were both on the Theopologetics podcast to talk about how the church can be more receiving of those with disabilities. Such a talk would not take place in the time of Jesus. That we do have this talk today shows how far we've come.
Instone-Brewer also shows his scholarly knowledge of the Rabbinic writings, but does so in a way that's not overbearing. The reader will not need a strong knowledge of the literature to know what Instone-Brewer is talking about. Fortunately, for those who do want more knowledge, he includes a list of recommended books in the back.
The chapters are also short enough that one could use them as a springboard at a church discussion group or could use the idea at a discussion around the water cooler. Each chapter can be read in only a few minutes and can provide plenty of food for thought for interesting discussion. Also, at the end of each chapter, Instone-Brewer includes an application piece that is relevant to what we are doing today.
I do think this book would be an interesting one for the person wanting to know more about the historical Jesus. The book uses the criterion of embarrassment to indicate that something is more likely to be true if it's embarrassing to the cause. Aside from that, there won't be much on historicity, but that was not the goal of this particular book.
This book thus comes with my recommendation. Do yourself a favor and buy it, or with Christmas coming, buy it for that non-Christian friend you have.
In Christ,
Nick Peters
1 of 1 people found the following review helpful.
Scandalous, Shocking But True! This Book Presents A Whole Different Look At The Life of Christ!
By Harold Cameron
"Why He Shocked His Contemporaries (And Still Shocks Today)
"The author's aim is to help thinking lay persons and people preparing sermons to apply NT ethics within a modern culture, while still remaining faithful to the text - by taking into account the ancient culture. This is high quality scholarship at a very accessible level. Over the centuries Jesus's teaching on ethical matters has often become muted and distorted. This book sets the matter straight. Here are 30 areas of ethical debate: in each context Jesus offered insights which would have left his contemporaries agape." (From the publisher's website)
It seems that the masses today love a good scandal. That's why there are hundreds of scandal-filled tabloids published and sold worldwide - each offering pages and pages of slanderous and scandalous stories about famous people or people of some renown.
And so we have the story of Jesus Christ to consider along with the author. Dr. Brewer breaks his book down into 3 parts - each part in some way looking at the life of Christ and who he associated with and the scandals that were associated with them. In Part 1 author Brewer wrote about the alleged scandals in Jesus own life, in Part 2 he wrote about the alleged scandals among the friends of Jesus and finally in Part 3 he wrote about the alleged scandals in Jesus teaching. And it's worthy of note that the author had plenty of good potential evidence to use in building his case concerning "the Jesus Scandal."
For starters in Part 1 we have the author looking at the narrative of Christ's conception and birth to Mary...that he was conceived supernaturally by the Holy Spirit and that Joseph, Mary's husband, did not have relations with her prior to Jesus birth. Even Joseph had some doubts as he considered "putting her away privately" because of what appeared to be infidelity on her part - that is until the Angel of the Lord revealed to him that the child inside Mary was conceived by the Holy Spirit and that when Jesus was born, Joseph would call his name Jesus. Which the author notes was a unique factor because it was customary at that time for Jews to take their father's surname as theirs, but Joseph obeyed the Angel of the Lord and named him Jesus.
From the 1st chapter of the book to the last Dr. Brewer refers to plenty of Scripture to support his ultimate claim...but I'll get to that in a bit. Also in Part 1 Dr. Brewer points out the issues of Jesus' miracles and whether they were from God or not claiming that the matter of miracles was distasteful and "embarrassing" to the Jews. Some of the other "scandals" the author writes about in the life of Jesus include what he refers to as "Alcohol Abuse, (that Jesus was a winebibber); "Disruptive Worship and the Exposing of Temple Scams," his "Shameful Execution" and finally His "Embarrassing Resurrection." Imagine trying to convince the masses of that fact - that some guy conceived supernaturally by the Holy Spirit and lived a very good, moral and exemplary life, and who made claims that he was God, was ultimately publicly crucified, (so there's no denying that fact), only then to be raised from the dead. Were it not for the testimonies of the Apostles and countless others it would seem a pretty scandalous and unbelievable story. Could it really be? The answer which Dr. Brewer gives us in his book is a resounding YES.
Then there was the matter of Jesus friends. Dr. Brewer shares with us what the Bible does and that is that Jesus hung out with some pretty unsavory and sinful people in his day. His crowd was not the kind of crowd that the Jews would have taken much of a liking to. Author Brewer lists some of Jesus friends and the scandals associated with them - First, there was Mary Magdalene who had seven demons in her and most likely acted pretty strange; Judas Iscariot, who sold Jesus out for cash, some of his disciples such as Matthew who was a tax-collector, (which did not make him at all popular with the Jews), "The Unchosen" and unwanted of the society in which Jesus lived, "The Cursed" and "The Prostitutes." Such were the kind of people that Jesus hung out with on a regular basis and was quite comfortable being around. Surely, if he were the Son of God and God in the flesh he would not have hung out with the riff raff crowd he did...or if he really were the Son of God and very God would he have associated himself with such people? The answer might just surprise you. Dr. Brewer in his book comparing Scripture with Scripture as well as historical writings from that time period writes YES He would and He did.
Then finally there was the problem with Jesus' Teaching and that was a major bone of contention for the Jewish spiritual leaders of his day. Some of the topics of Christ's teaching that Dr. Brewer examines include "Child Abuse," (Jesus stated that if anyone caused one of his little ones, a child, to stumble- which the author states has a sexual connotation, it would have been better that a millstone were hung around his neck and he were cast into the sea); "Hypocrisy," (he blasted the religious leaders for their hypocrisy and calloused indifference to the spiritual and physical needs of the people of that day), "Oaths and Curses," Good and Bad Luck," God-Sent Disasters," "Unforgivable Blasphemy," and finally "Eternal Torment." Without knowing the context of the Scriptures that relates these teachings of Christ as well as the Old Testament Scriptures behind what Jesus taught, one would want to sign him up for a Dale Carnegie Course on "How to Win Friends and Influence People." Because as the author writes, when Jesus taught what he did quite often he stirred up quite a hornet's nest. It was so bad that the religious leaders absolutely hated Christ and plotted his death waiting for the opportune time. And when it came they took advantage of it and had him crucified. So, this Jesus, who started out in life with more than a few points against him, who then hung out with some very undesirable and unsavory people, who throughout his adult life and ministry taught that he was the Son of Man, Son of God, and even God himself - which by the way was the ultimate blasphemy to the ruling Jewish spiritual leaders, could this man who seemed to be surrounded by so much scandal really be who he stated he was? Well, Dr. Brewer believes so and states as much in his very insightful book about Jesus. And you know what? I have to agree with him. I hope you will read his book and agree with him as well about who Jesus really is...that he truly was and is the Son of God and God.
ABOUT THE AUTHOR
Dr David Instone-Brewer is Senior Research Fellow and Technical Officer at Tyndale House, Cambridge. A Baptist minister, his hobby is computer programming. A rabbinic scholar, he is author of many academic and popular articles, and of `Divorce and Remarriage in the Church: Biblical Solutions for Pastoral Realities', published by Paternoster.
Disclosure of Material Connection: I received this book free from the publisher, Monarch Books for review purposes. I was not required to write a positive review. The opinions I have expressed are my own. I am disclosing this in accordance with the Federal Trade Commission's 16 CFR, Part 255: "Guides Concerning the Use of Endorsements and Testimonials in Advertising."
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