For the last post in this series, see here. After all-too-brief forays into the Gospels and Galatians, I turn now to Paul’s two extant, canonical letters to the Corinthians to see what perspective they betray on the theological relationship between Israel and the Church.  My approach in this series is, I freely admit, quite open to the charge

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For the previous post in this series, click here. *Before I move into Galatians, a quick additional point to my previous post on the Gospels that I forgot to include: many contemporary NT scholars, such as E. P. Sanders and Scot McKnight, see Jesus’ singling out of 12 Jewish disciples as an intentionally symbolic act

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For the first two parts in this series, see here and here. Today I aim to briskly scan the four canonical Gospels of the New Testament for what light they shed on the relationship between ethnic Israel and the Church (constituted by believing, confessing followers of Jesus regardless of nationality), particularly with respect to what Jesus

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” ‘If you abandon Israel, God will never forgive you…it is God’s will that Israel, the biblical home of the people of Israel, continue for ever and ever.’  So spoke the President [Bill Clinton] of the United States in a speech delivered before the Israeli Knesset assembled in Jerusalem.  He was recalling with apparent approval

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In a new series of posts here at the Fish Tank, I want to explore a biblical theme that has long fascinated me: the theological relationship between ethnic Israel and the Church of Jesus Christ.  What is the precise nature of the connection between these two groups of people in Scripture?  Depending on how we

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