Please, allow me to introduce to you a new open-access (free) academic journal – “Journal of the Jesus Movement in its Jewish Setting” (JJMJS). Several years ago I and my friend Knut H. Høyland (he now serves as a managing director) initiated establishment of this new academic journal. It was later developed in co-operation with […]
The Robe of Jesus the High Priest (by Eli Lizorkin-Eyzenberg and Peter Shirokov) 13 … I saw one like a son of man, clothed in a robe reaching to the feet, and girded across His chest with a golden sash. The description of the Son of Man’s clothing is consistent with his priestly duties (though different […]
Jesus as the High Priest of the Heavenly Tabernacle in Rev. 1:10-13 (by Dr. Eli Lizorkin-Eyzenberg and Peter Shirokov) 10 I was in the Spirit on the Lord’s Day when I heard behind me a loud voice like a trumpet, 11 saying: “Write in a book what you see and send it to the seven churches—to Ephesus, […]
This article is republished with permission from Jerusalem Perspective. For 20 years, www.JerusalemPerspective.com has been devoted to producing in-depth articles on the Synoptic Gospels and the land, language, culture and teachings of Jesus. [Title image: Greek & Hebrew mosaic inscription from the fourth-century synagogue in Hammat Tiberias, with the words ΑΜΗΝ (amen) and שלום (shalom).] Greek […]
Twelve new leaders for twelve old tribes (John 13:1-20) 1 Now before the Feast of the Passover, when Jesus knew that his hour had come to depart out of this world to the Father, having loved his own who were in the world, he loved them to the end. For better viewing click HERE. After the […]
“Pilate also had an inscription written and put on the cross. It read, Jesus the Nazarene, the King of the Jews. Many of the Jews read this inscription, because the place where Jesus was crucified was near the city; and it was written in Hebrew, in Latin, and in Greek.” (John 19:19-20) An intriguing passage in the Gospel […]
In both Jewish and Christian religious imagination, the person of Satan played a significant role. But what does the word Satan actually means in Hebrew? The word (שָּׂטָן) simply means adversary or and is connected with the verb (לְשָׂטָ֖ן) which simply means to oppose. We see this clearly when Balaam the sorcerer was contracted for […]
Paul’s Letter to the Romans, the Ten Commandments, and Pagan “Justification by Faith” E. P. Sanders’s Paul and Palestinian Judaism (1977) challenged the utility of the phrase “justification by faith” as a key to anything other than Lutheran scholarship. This note argues that the phrase does offer us insight into the historical Paul, provided we interpret it within […]
My dear friends, Today it is my honor to introduce you to my friend and colleague Dr. Faydra Shapiro. She is Jewish like myself, but unlike myself she is an Orthodox Jew. Faydra directs the Galilee Center for Studies in Jewish-Christian Relations at the Max Stern Yezreel Valley College, in northern Israel. She grew up […]
Jews, Judaeans, Judaizing, Judaism: Problems of Categorization in Ancient History (prof Steve Mason, Groningen University) Dr Steve Mason (University of Groningen) is a scholar with special expertise in Josephus, New Testament Studies, Roman antiquity and Religions of ancient Mediterranean. Some of his papers and publications are available on his web site: www.stevemason.eu Read the entire article […]
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