“The Seven Woes Part 6–The Inside of the Cup and the Circumcision of the Heart” Character in Context 7.8.19

Full disclosure. I hated teaching a lot of this. This information is maddening and confusing and nitpicky, but it represents a real debate and struggle in the first century and even to modern times–the idea that human hands were automatically so unclean that they would make food and drink defiled if not ritually washed. It […]