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The Dictionary of Jesus and the Gospels bridges the gap between scholars and those pastors, teachers, students and lay people desiring in-depth treatment of select topics in an accessible and summary format. The topics range from cross-sectional themes (such as faith, law, and Sabbath), to methods of interpretation (such as form criticism, redaction criticism, and sociological approaches), from...

The Christian church* is largely Gentile, in spite of the facts that its origins are in a Jew (Jesus Christ), its first leaders were all Jews (the apostles*), and it grew out of Jewish soil (Palestine). Furthermore, the Gentile nature of the church is even more remarkable in light of the fact that Jesus, so far as we know, never intentionally entered Gentile lands for the sake of recruitment and evangelism though his practice is consistent with Paul’s Gentile mission (see Scobie). Jesus’