[This is from: Pentateuch & Haftarahs, reformatting and highlights added. Those who are clueless about certain ‘research’ conclusions that have been passed off as ‘reliable’ and ‘true’, debunking the historicity and authenticity of the books composing the Torah will find these “additional notes” surprising. Those who are familiar with a hypothesis claiming that these first […]
Read more.[Commentary from our MUST READ/MUST BUY Pentateuch and Haftorah, ed. Dr. J.H. Hertz. Translation is EF/Everett Fox, The Five Books of Moses.—Admin1.] REDEMPTION OF VOWS AND TITHES The Book of Leviticus concludes, as it opened, with a chapter of Sanctuary-regulations—voluntary contributions to the upkeep of the Sanctuary, such offerings being a true expression of devotion to […]
Read more[Commentary from Pentateuch & Haftorahs, ed. Dr. J.H. Hertz; all other comments with no brackets is ours, indicated by S6K. Translation is EF/Everett Fox, The Five Books of Moses.—Admin1.] CONCLUDING ADMONITION The Book of Leviticus has its sacerdotal chapters, its ceremonial parts, its ethical section; and, in its concluding portion, it strikes the note of Prophetic […]
Read more[The principle of ‘shabat” or “ceasing from doing what one normally does” has given its ‘name’ to the 7th day of the week, the Sabbath. Now in this chapter, we learn that even inanimate objects such as land or the earth or the soil are to be given rest, or to cease from what […]
Read more[Who is the “native-born” and who is the “sojourner”? Since the Torah was given in the context of a Covenant between the people of Israel and YHWH, there should be no question that the “native-born” is the Israelite while the “sojourner” is the non-Israelite. It was a mixed multitude of slaves who left Egypt […]
Read more[This is from a book we highly recommend not only as MUST READ but MUST HAVE, for any serious student of the Hebrew Scriptures.–Admin1]. ——————— Ezekiel Joel Rosenberg Ezekiel is simultaneously more homogeneous a composition than Jeremiah and more opaque about the origins of its components. As in the case with practically every other […]
Read more[As if it’s not difficult enough to read through the book of one major prophet, this commentary tackles two at the same time! But please understand that this study of two books simultaneously focuses only on the literary merits of the works attributed to these two prophets. Most all other religious studies expectedly, examine their […]
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