In honor of today's final in Second Temple Jewish Lit., I've decided to revisit our good friend Ben Sira. We covered several overarching themes to the book during our discussion of the text. His perspective of women is quite memorable ( Read more... )

I have really enjoyed my Second Temple Jewish Literature class. I wish churches would talk more about the intertestamental (I know it's not a "scholarly" word...but that's what it is...the time between the Old and New Testaments) period. The history interesting, and studying the literature that came out of that time helps you understand the ( Read more... )