John P. Meier: Jesus the Jew - But What Sort of Jew?

One of the challenges facing academic biblical scholarship and theology is translating research into material that the lay person can understand. Clergy, like other professionals, can sometimes assume that lay people should be left in ignorance of more demanding or challenging ideas. One suggestion to lay people is to stop relying on the clergy to act as conduits and get on and do it ourselves. iTunesU and YouTube are rich treasure houses of material.

John Meier here is in fine formhttp://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WxeKunPwmp4