What Was Jesus' Bible?

What Was Jesus' Bible? What the Gospels Reveal

What did “Scripture” mean in the world of Jesus? And which ancient texts do the Gospels actually place on his lips?

Long before the Bible existed in the familiar form we know today, sacred writings circulated as scrolls and occupied different places within Jewish religious life. Literature from the late Second Temple period, synagogue traditions, and the Gospels themselves preserve important clues to that world.

In this Sunday School session, Ross K. Nichols explores the Scriptures of the late Second Temple period and then conducts a different kind of Gospel survey. Setting aside the other New Testament voices, we listen only to Jesus as portrayed in the canonical Gospels and ask a simple question: Which Scriptures does he quote, cite, or allude to, and which ones never appear?

The results provide a fascinating glimpse into Jesus’ Scriptures and lead to an even bigger question: What did Jesus actually teach from the texts he used?

That question is where we will go next.

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