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Endnote 2 - Beasts or Bugs?
For more on the plagues, see Ziony Zevit, “Three Ways to Look at the Ten Plagues,” BR 06:03.
Endnote 1 - Beasts or Bugs?
More and more Christians also have become familiar with the Passover celebration in recent years, due partly to an increased awareness that the Last Supper may have been a Passover meal. On this question, see Baruch M. Bokser, “Was the Last Supper a Passover Seder?” BR 03:02, and Jonathan Klawans, “Was Jesus’ Last Supper a Seder?” BR 17:05.
Endnote 5 - What Jesus Really Meant by “Render Unto Caesar”
Endnote 4 - What Jesus Really Meant by “Render Unto Caesar”
Endnote 3 - What Jesus Really Meant by “Render Unto Caesar”
Endnote 2 - What Jesus Really Meant by “Render Unto Caesar”
Endnote 1 - What Jesus Really Meant by “Render Unto Caesar”
For a list of dozens of authors’ diverse interpretations of this passage, see J. Duncan M. Derrett, Law in the New Testament (London: Darton, Longman & Todd, 1970), p. 318 n. 2. For an example of the tendency to interpret this passage as discouraging civil disobedience, see Barth, “The Christian Community and the Civil Community,” in Karl Barth, Theologian of Freedom, ed. Clifford J. Green (San Francisco: HarperCollins, 1989), pp. 273–274.
Endnote 3 - Gods and the One God
Endnote 2 - Gods and the One God
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