The Biblical Unitarian Podcast
Religion & Spirituality:Christianity
This episode explores how the "Word of God" (Aramaic: "memra") was used to explain the activity of the God of Israel in the Jewish Targum Onkelos. After organizing the various ways that Onkelos understands and uses the "memra" of God in the Torah, we look at John 1:1-18 to see if our reading of that passage is illuminated by the Jewish context created by Targum Onkelos. We conclude that the memra of God in Targum Onkelos is not a preexisting, conscious person alongside the God of Israel.
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191: Making Sense of Hebrews 1:10-12
190: Worshipping the Son in Hebrews 1:6
189: The Coronation of the Son in Hebrews 1:5
188: Does the Book of Hebrews Depict Jesus as God’s Wisdom?
187: God and Jesus in the Book of Hebrews
186: The Johannine Comma of 1 John 5:7-8
185: Paul’s Use of OT Yahweh Texts for Jesus - (Part 4 of 4)
184: Paul’s Use of OT Yahweh Texts for Jesus - (Part 3 of 4)
183: Paul’s Use of OT Yahweh Texts for Jesus - Part 2
182: Paul’s Use of OT Yahweh Texts for Jesus - Part 1
181: OT Yahweh Texts for Jesus - An Introduction
180: Making Sense of Titus 2:13
179: The Logos and Targum Neofiti
177: Sacrifices and the Christian God (Part 2 of 2)
176: Sacrifices and the Christian God (Part 1)
175: Was Jesus a Monotheist?
174: Maranatha and the Earliest Christology of the Church
173: Mark’s High Human Christology (Ch. 15)
172: Mark’s High Human Christology (Ch. 14)
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