Hebrews, Israelites, and Jews
Stone Choir
Stone Choir
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🗓️ 21 June 2023
⏱️ 121 minutes
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Summary
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The terms “Hebrew”, “Israelite”, and “Jew” are often conflated and they do, indeed, have overlapping meanings, but they are also distinct terms that sometimes reference diametrically opposed things. A “Jew” can be one who is religiously a Jew, ethnically a Jew, or even one who truly believes (for Scripture speaks in this way). “Israel” can mean the man, the nation, or the Church. It is incumbent on Christians to make careful and correct use of these terms, not to be incautious or sloppy.
Many heresies have arisen in the history of the Church due to deliberate or careless misuse of terms — and many of these heresies persist into the present. For instance, without a false understanding of what the terms “Israel” and “Church” mean, there would be no such thing as ‘Christian’ Zionism. In this episode, we go over the Scriptural (and a bit of the historical) case with regard to the Jews — who they are, what they’ve done, and what that means for Christians.
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Show Notes
- Proto-Hebrew Alphabet [Wikipedia]
- cf. the Phoenician alphabet [Wikipedia]
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Further Reading
- Targum [Wikipedia]
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| 0:00.0 | The |
| 0:07.0 | The Welcome to the Stone Choir podcast. I am Corey J. Mahler. And I'm still, whoa. On today's |
| 0:45.1 | Stone Choir, we're going to begin the first of what will be at least a three-part series on the Jews. |
| 0:52.2 | As I said last week towards the end of the episode, in the next few weeks we're going to be getting into some stuff that will probably cross some red lines for some people, probably make some of you uncomfortable. |
| 1:02.9 | The reason that we're tackling it is that that's a problem. |
| 1:06.8 | The fact that someone simply saying, the Jews may have made you squirm, maybe you turn down the volume a little bit, |
| 1:13.5 | that's a big deal because that came from somewhere. And as Christians, we can't talk about our own religion without talking about the Jews. |
| 1:23.4 | There's no way to talk about the history of the faith without talking about these people. |
| 1:29.0 | The ethnicity, the religious beliefs, the history are all relevant to us today, both in time and in the current year. |
| 1:38.1 | And so the fact that there's this sort of inherent recoiling that I think has been put in in many of our hearts |
| 1:46.2 | to even hear the word. |
| 1:47.7 | You sort of flinch and think something bad's going to happen. |
| 1:50.2 | I don't want to be here anymore. |
| 1:51.8 | That's not an adult response. |
| 1:54.0 | That's not something that should be the case. |
| 1:56.6 | And so today and over the next couple of weeks, we're going to be going through the history |
| 2:00.7 | of the Jews in terms of scripture, in terms of post-scriptural history, and then modern history. |
| 2:07.6 | Things that some of things have happened in living memory. |
| 2:10.7 | This first episode is going to be entirely focused around scripture. |
| 2:13.7 | So we're going to begin in the garden, and we're going to take it all the way through |
| 2:17.6 | the end. And then, you know, obviously the Bible basically ends with some prophecies and |
| 2:22.5 | the destruction of the temple. We're going to be talking about some, a few post-temple |
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