Jesus' Jewish identity, Paul's commands to women and Bonhoeffer's dilemma: Tom Wright answers

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🗓️ 4 May 2025

⏱️ 27 minutes

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Tom Wright and Mike Bird delve into the Jewish identity of Jesus in this week's episode of the Ask NT Wright Anything podcast. They respond to a listener's question about Paul's instructions in 1 Corinthians 11 and reflect on the moral dilemmas faced by Dietrich Bonhoeffer during the Nazi regime. With depth and clarity, they explore how seeing Jesus within his Jewish context enriches our understanding of the gospel, why Paul's words on worship remain controversial, and how Bonhoeffer's bold choices continue to challenge the church on questions of Biblical ethics, justice, and what role Christians should take on opposing tyranny. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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0:00.0	Ask NT write anything is sponsored by Logos. Start going deeper in the Bible with a free trial
0:05.9	at logos.com slash NT. Well, hello everyone. You've joined us on the Ask NTRite Anything
0:16.6	podcast, the program where we try to answer all your questions about the Bible, faith, Christianity,
0:24.0	and what it means to follow Jesus.
0:26.7	I'm like Bird from Ridley College in Melbourne, Australia, and I'm joined, as always, by the
0:31.6	star of our show.
0:32.7	Hello, I'm Tom Wright from Oxford in England.
0:35.8	And Tom, we've got another great lineup of questions.
0:40.0	Our first one is from Kyle Cunningham in Temple, of the United States, of the United States.
0:48.8	And he asked this.
0:49.8	He says, hi, Tom.
0:51.4	From a critical view, the more that I study Jesus in his cultural context and in Torah,
0:57.9	the more he seems to be the fulfillment of a specific cultural expectation rather than the savior of the cosmos.
1:07.1	Why did the God of the universe deem it necessary that he operate through a Jewish Messiah?
1:14.9	Thank you for all your work that you have done and continue to do.
1:19.5	So, Tom, I could sum this up as, do we need Jesus of Nazareth?
1:23.5	What about Jesus of Nashville?
1:26.1	You know, or Jesus of Nantucket?
1:29.7	Or, you know, could Jesus have gone anywhere in the world?
1:33.5	As long as he was born of a virgin and died of violent death, I mean, could he have gone anywhere?
1:39.2	South America, China, maybe even somewhere exotic as Australia.
1:43.5	What do you think, Tom?
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