[Phinneous]

As one of my rabbis taught us in seminary, the Sadducees were very sad, you see...

[patlin]

I just got done reading a “Jesus the Pharisee” by Rabbi Harvey Falk. While I do not support this notion that YHVH only requires gentiles to follow the Noahide laws as there is absolutely no Scriptural basis for it, the book was a great help in understanding 1st century culture & idioms. This notion that Christendom teaches that the Scriptures were read in Greek in the synagogues and the Hebrew schools of Shammai & Hillel is about as far out in outer space as one could get.

2 other enlightening books are ‘Understanding the difficult words of Jesus’ & “New light on the difficult words of Jesus’ by David Bivin are also great sources for understanding the parables Yah’shua spoke. I found it quite interesting that all the parables I have cross referenced thus far were taken from Jewish rabbinic parable literature that Yah'shua had obviously studied and had memorized.