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John Bergsma


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January 17, 1971

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Dr. John Bergsma is Associate Professor of Theology at the Franciscan University of Steubenville, in Steubenville, Ohio. He holds the M.Div. and Th.M. degrees from Calvin Seminary, Grand Rapids, Michigan, and served as a Protestant pastor for four years before entering the Catholic Church in 2001 while pursuing a Ph.D. in Theology from the University of Notre Dame. He specialized in the Old Testament and the Dead Sea Scrolls, graduating with high honors in 2004. His major study of the interpretation of the Year of Jubilee in ancient times is published as The Jubilee from Leviticus to Qumran (Brill Academic, 2007). Dr. Bergsma’s articles, some co-authored with Dr. Scott Hahn, have appeared in several academic journals as well as Lay Witness, ...more

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“Day by day the throng of refugees is recruited to an equal number by numerous accessions of persons tired of life and driven there by the waves of fortune to adopt their manners. Thus”
John Bergsma, Jesus and the Dead Sea Scrolls: Revealing the Jewish Roots of Christianity

“In the wake of the golden calf debacle, God gave Moses a liturgy and a lifestyle to implement that would institutionalize freedom for his people. The sacrifices, laws, and especially the liturgical patterns—the cycle of Sabbaths and Sabbath years—culminated in the Sabbath of Sabbaths, the year of rest, where the sins of Israel were atoned for and forgiven, the family was fully restored, debt was erased, slaves were released, and ancestral land was”
John Bergsma, Jesus and the Jubilee: The Biblical Roots of the Year of God’s Favor

“Creation, temple, liturgy, sacraments—they all converge on jubilee. Through these gifts the Lord is trying to redeem and release us so we have freedom to commune with him, to return to the family of God, and to rest in the fullness of his creation.”
John Bergsma, Jesus and the Jubilee: The Biblical Roots of the Year of God’s Favor

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