Course Objectives
Upon successful completion of this course, student should be able to:

• Da'at (Theoria): demonstrate knowledge of the various schools of thought (hashqafot) present in First-Century Pharisaic Judaism.
• Binah (Praxis): understand the significance of these coexisting hashqafot to understanding Yeshua's teachings within First-Century Judaism.
• Chokhma (Poiesis): apply such understanding to the student's own halakha, learning from both the teachings of Yeshua and the other Sages of the First-Century CE.

Required Textbook

• Tice, Brian. Reflecting on the Rabbis: Sage Insight into First-Century Jewish Thought. Grand Rapids, Mich.: MJR Press, 2017.
  
  
  

Disclaimer

The tools used in MJR's courses were selected because they hold particular value in communicating the concepts being studied in a given course. Some may not be specifically targeted to a Messianic audience, but may still contain information that would be advantageous to the Messianic talmid/ah. Others may reflect in places terminology that has fallen into disuse, but does not diminish the value of the information conveyed. As with everything that is not the Bible itself, read them with discernment.

We do not expect students to agree with everything presented in any course, whether via lecture, assigned reading, or video presentation. As participants in higher education, students enrolled in MJR's courses and/or programs should be practicing critical thinking and discernment every step of the journey. To that end, your faculty recites this blessing along with each of you:

NOTA BENE: While it is the general practice and preference of MJR to use circumlocutions in place of the Covenant Name of our G-d (Hashem, Adonai, Elohim, Elokim, Adoshem, etc.), some course materials (e.g. textbooks, linked websites, journal articles, etc.) may not always do this.