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“Through the Fire

all-or-nothing attitudes

but delights to redeem and receive those who believe in him

powerful prayers

What’s this—a leader who doesn’t plan

Jesus and Identity BIBLES > ESV English Standard Version > Study “Through the FireNew Testament scholarship lacks an overall interpretive framework in which to understand Judean identity. This lack of interpretive framework is quite acute in scholarship on the historical Jesus, where the issue of Judeanness ("Jewishness") is most strongly debated. A socio cultural model of Judean ethnicity is developed, being a synthesis of (1) Sanders' notion of covenantal nomism, (2) Berger and Luckmann's theories on the sociology of knowledge,