{"id":333,"date":"2008-03-14T15:31:00","date_gmt":"2008-03-14T15:31:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blog.beliefnet.com\/bibleandculture\/2008\/03\/new-time-article-on-rob-bells-take-on-early-judaism-and-mine.html"},"modified":"2008-03-14T15:31:00","modified_gmt":"2008-03-14T15:31:00","slug":"new-time-article-on-rob-bells-take-on-early-judaism-and-mine","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.beliefnet.com\/columnists\/bibleandculture\/2008\/03\/new-time-article-on-rob-bells-take-on-early-judaism-and-mine.html","title":{"rendered":"New Time Article on Rob Bell’s Take on early Judaism (and Mine)"},"content":{"rendered":"

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You might not realize it from the most recent article in Time about Rob Bell and myself, but I am a Rob Bell fan, and am very grateful for numerous things he is doing for Christ. I do have an issue with his use of early Jewish sources that date from after the time of Jesus, and the attempt to read Jesus as if he were a post-70 A.D. rabbinic figure, when in fact he seldom sounds anything like a rabbi in the way he teaches, but rather more like a Jewish sage such as Honi the Circle Drawer, or Hanina ben Dosa. Here is the link to the article itself, and a good article it is by a fine writer (David van Bema). See what you think, and compare it to my earlier posts on Rob, which you can easily find by doing a search on my blog typing in Rob Bell.<\/p>\n

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