Messianic Judaism is a movement of people who identify as Jews and self-consciously embrace – although to degrees that can differ quite widely – Jewish culture and religious tradition, while at the same time maintaining a belief in the divinity of Jesus, the Trinity, and the authority of the New Testament. Despite a wide range […]
What does “Offering” mean in Hebrew? Offering to God has been a major part of Israel’s faith tradition. The laws governing these activities are carefully spelled out and elaborated. But what Hebrew word is used to delineate our concept of offering? The word for offering is קָרְבָּן (pronounced: korban). It is a fascinating word. Its […]
1:4 John to the seven churches that are in the province of Asia: While the book of Revelation is an apocalypse when it comes to its genre, it is not a pure apocalypse (1) in that it is set in the context of a letter. We can see this clearly in the following verses. The […]
The recent tet-à-tet between Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu and Pope Francis has set the blogosphere atwitter. While their exchange was amicable, the prime minister’s correction of the holy father ushered into public discourse a subject more at home in the arcane halls of scholarly deliberation.What language did Jesus speak?Their differences of opinion reflect changes taking […]
Judaizing the Nations: The Ritual Demands of Paul’s Gospel by Paula Fredriksen Much current NT scholarship holds that Paul conducted a ‘Law-free’ mission to Gentiles. In this view, Paul fundamentally repudiated the ethnic boundaries created and maintained by Jewish practices. The present essay argues the contrary: Paul’s principled resistance to circumcising Gentiles precisely preserves these distinctions ‘according to the […]
This brief video tells about the work of the Galilee Center for Studies in Jewish-Christian Relations led by Dr Faydra Shapiro. [youtube height=”400″ width=”600″]https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8-68f9Djf24[/youtube]
by James T. Mace All OT scholars know of the prophetic theme of reunification of the divided kingdoms of north Israel and south Judah. Despite its prominence in passages cited by the NT , only a paucity of scholars take account of the theme but, even then, not in much depth. One exception is Brant Pitre, who identifies […]
Rev. 1:3 Blessed is the one who reads aloud the words of this prophecy, and blessed are those who hear, and who keep what is written in it, for the time is near. As we continue to slowly walk through the book of Revelation, we will repeatedly see that the book is not a sporadically […]
The revelation of Jesus Christ, which God gave Him to show to His bond-servants, the things which must soon take place; and He sent and communicated it by His angel to His bond-servant John, 2 who testified to the word of God and to the testimony of Jesus Christ, even to all that he saw. Rev. […]
“There were four classes of men among those of Cyrene; that of citizens, that of husbandmen, the third of strangers, and the fourth of Jews. Now these Jews are already gotten into all cities; and it is hard to find a place in the habitable earth that hath not admitted this tribe of men, and […]
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