In this class, Ross further explores the idea of the son of God. In this class, Ross begins to look at the use of certain texts from the Hebrew Bible by the evangelists. This week, he looks at the historical context of Isaiah 7 and 8.

Formal creeds and one of Orthodox Christianity’s fundamental beliefs is that Isaiah 7:14 predicts that a young Jewish virgin would conceive and bring forth a son. Is this what Isaiah meant when this text was originally written?

Ross covers some of the historical setting for this text. When was it written? What does the Hebrew term Almah mean?

Was Miriam, a young Jewish girl to become the Mother of God?

Learn this and more in this week’s class.

 

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