Category Archives: Video

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Jesus and Jewish figures of speech (3 minutes)

For a three-minute summary of some of Jesus’s Judean or Galilean figures of speech, see

The entire series on Matthew (about 20 hours in roughly 1-hour segments) may be found at: http://faculty.gordon.edu/hu/bi/ted_hildebrandt/DigitalCourses/00_DigitalBiblicalStudiesCourses.html#Matthew_Keener. Not as nice as sitting in class but designed especially for those who don’t have access to the classroom.

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Messianic expectation–paper for Yale Center for Faith and Culture

Yale Center for Faith and Culture invited several of us to address the concept of expectation, in connection with Jürgen Moltmann. I was invited to write a paper on the messianic expectation of Jesus. The presentation in the video here is the highly condensed version I presented orally, reading a shorter version of my paper at the colloquium.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=55igrtewmfw

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Jesus and the Temple

Jesus challenged ethnic segregation in the Temple, and also promised coming judgment. I discuss this in a 4-minute video:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Gmk10JZANyU

Earlier short videos include:

The meaning of the tabernacle in the Old Testament: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rkqIQclvwTI

The new temple in Paul: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rpfVbCo955g

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What did Acts 1:8 mean by “the ends of the earth”?

What did Acts 1:8 mean by “the ends of the earth”? 3-minute lecture clip by Acts scholar Craig Keener.

For 23 free lectures on Acts, see http://faculty.gordon.edu/hu/bi/ted_hildebrandt/DigitalCourses/00_DigitalBiblicalStudiesCourses.html#Acts_Keener; this may be especially valuable to viewers in locations where they cannot attend seminary.

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The tabernacle

Ancient architecture helps us understanding the real message of the Tabernacle in the Bible (Exodus 25). I address the details somewhat in this 5-6 minute video: