Short Circles: Who Do You Say that I Am?: Jesus and Jewish Messianic Expectations with Rev. Tim Dalton
Short Circles are two to three week classes, held on Zoom and led by Riverside clergy and ministerial staff. These classes will allow our Riverside community to connect around various topics and themes, deepening their faith and spirituality, and getting to know one another and the Riverside clergy team.
First we will look at the Hebrew scriptures that present the seeds of the Messianic ideas, then examine a sample of intertestamental writings (such as the Dead Sea Scrolls) where messianism flowers into unique expressions, and finally explore the Gospel/New Testament accounts and ask an open question as to whether Jesus, in his life and ministry, actually reaps and applies these rich and differing images of the messiah to himself.
