Showing posts with label Christianity. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Christianity. Show all posts
Thursday, June 23, 2022

Common Errors Made about Early Judaism

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If you are either Christian or Jewish (or have been influenced by people who are), then you should read The Jewish Annotated New Testament ....
Monday, May 30, 2022

What Christians Ask Me about Leviticus

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In the yearly cycle of reading the Torah, Jews all over the world have just finished reading Vayikra , the middle book of the Five Books, kn...
Sunday, October 24, 2021

From Text to Tradition: A History of Second Temple & Rabbinic Judaism (Lawrence Schiffman)

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According to Jewish legend, the First Temple in Jerusalem was destroyed in 586 BCE and the Second Temple in 70 CE, on the same day of the Je...
Saturday, December 5, 2015

Inheriting Abraham, by Jon D. Levenson

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Someone once said that the U.S. and the U.K. are two nations divided by a common language. We both speak English, but oh, the different wa...
Thursday, February 19, 2015

The Jewish Gospels, by Daniel Boyarin: a review

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Boyarin argues that when Jesus claimed to be a divine being as well as the anointed king, he was saying something other Jews would understa...
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Sunday, February 8, 2015

Davening the Lord's Prayer

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My parents used to sing us to sleep every night.  One of the songs that took a regular turn in the repertory was The Lord's Prayer, th...
Tuesday, September 2, 2014

Three Rules for Interfaith Dialogue

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I was blown away to find that the Christian theologian had so clearly put into words the basic ground rules for really trying to understand ...