Welcome everyone to the Augustine Institute Bible Conference. I am Dr. Brant Petrie, and I am very excited to be with you this afternoon to President on the topic of Jesus and the Jewish Roots of Mary. My lecture this afternoon is actually taken from my most recent book with the same title, Jesus and the Jewish Roots of Mary.

And I was pondering and preparing for this afternoon which chapter, which topic from the book

that I would share with you. And in light of all of the turmoil and upheaval and difficulty going on in the world today, I really felt

drawn to one of the chapters that might be in some ways the most unique in the whole book.

And that's a chapter on Mary as the new Rachel.

So lots of Catholics are familiar with looking at Mary from the perspective of typology, right?

So that if Jesus is a new Adam, Mary's the new Eve, if Jesus is the new King David,

marries the new queen mother, or if Jesus is the new temple, marries the new Ark of the Covenant,

those kind of things are pretty popular and fairly well known. But in this

chapter and in this presentation, drawing from that chapter, what I'm going to do is look at

a somewhat unique or a little more unfamiliar typology, and that's the idea or the image of Jesus

as the new Joseph. And Mary as the new Rachel, the new mother of the new Israel.

So before we dive into the topic this afternoon, let's begin as always with a word of prayer.

In the name of the Father and of the Son and of the Holy Spirit, amen.

Heavenly Father, thank you so much for the opportunity to gather together here virtually and to study the Bible together at this conference.

I pray that as we turn our hearts and minds to the mystery of Mary's identity and the connections in the Old New Testament's between Mary and the figure of Rachel,

that you would pour out the grace of the Holy Spirit upon us to open our minds and hearts to anything and everything you want

us to learn together. And so we pray, as always, the words your son gave us, our Father, who art in

heaven, hallow be thy name. Thy kingdom come, thy will be done, on earth as it is in heaven.

Give us the stay our daily bread and forgive us our trespasses, as we forgive those who trespass

against us, and lead us not in the temptation, but deliver us from evil. Amen. St. Augustine, pray for us.

In the name of the Father and of the Son and of the Holy Spirit.

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