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NT202 A Survey of Jewish History and Literature from the Second Temple Period is unavailable, but you can change that!

In this course, Dr. Joel Willitts guides you through key historical moments and literary works of the Second Temple period. Discover the history between Israel’s return from exile and the destruction of the temple in AD 70. Develop an understanding of the beliefs of Jewish groups such as the Pharisees, Sadducees, and Essenes. Survey a vast array of Second Temple literature, from the Old Testament...

captures exactly the purpose for this course. He says this: “The ideal interpreter would be one who has entered into the strange first-century world, has felt its whole strangeness, has sojourned” into it so that they have lived themselves “into it, thinking and feeling as one of those to whom the Gospel first came,” and then who will return to their own world. Get that point that Dodd’s making. He’s not saying that they stay in that sort of ancient world but, rather, that they go there, they discover