[First posted in 2012; a timely repost in the season of the celebration of the birth of the supposed Jewish Messiah. Here’s the original Introduction: Jesus we know, but who is “Horus”? This article is from near death.com/experiences/origen046.html; it will probably be dismissed as a ‘questionable’ source. We post it along with all the other articles […]
Read more[First posted in 2012; time for a repost. This recommended read is: A HISTORY OF THE JEWS by Paul Johnson. One reviewer, Merle Rubin of Christian Science Monitor says it best: “An absorbing, provocative, well-written, often moving book, an insightful and impassioned blend of history and myth, story and interpretation” (highlights added). I most […]
Read more[This was first posted on April 19, 2012, a timely reminder from the Giver of Life. Just think: we have to be alive to be able to ‘choose life’ . . . so what does the LORD of LIFE mean by that? In searching for a suitable image for this article, one showed […]
Read more[Originally posted in 2012; facts still relevant in 2019. Write us or leave a comment at the bottom of the page of any post; we will endeavor to answer your query or address your comment or engage you in discourse.—Admin1] Q: What does it mean to be a Sinai 6000 “Affiliate?” A: Our […]
Read more[Originally posted in 2014. “Hallowing” has nothing to do with “Halloween” except for the word “hallow” which means to “honor as holy or make holy; consecrate”. A bit of trivia since this is being posted on . . . er . . .coincidentally Halloween 2013: “ORIGIN late 18th cent.: contraction of All Hallow Even (Even —the end […]
Read more[Originally posted in 2013. This concludes Chapter 5, “THE WAY” of the book we have been featuring in this series: James Tabor, Restoring Abrahamic Faith. We consider this book a “wake-up call” not only for ourselves but our Christian colleagues with whom we attempted to share its contents. Our former messianic teacher […]
Read more[First posted in 2013. This is from our valuable resource: Pentateuch and Haftorahs, ed. Dr. J.H. Hertz. The Chronological Table is provided in connection with the ‘Sedras’ and their ‘Haftorahs’. For those who are not familiar with those two terms, the term ‘Sedrah’ is a common term for the Weekly Torah portion (sidra or sedra) in Judaism. Every Shabbat, the reading […]
Read more[First posted in 2013. This is another excellent commentary from A Literary Approach to the Bible, one of our MUST READ, if not MUST OWN books. Please read all the other articles from this great resource which have already bene posted. Reformatting, highlighting and underscoring added.] Jonah – by James S. Ackerman Although the Book of […]
Read more[Originally posted in 2013. This is from THE LITERARY GUIDE TO THE BIBLE which we have featured in similar articles that focus on the different literary genres found in the “Old Testament” or as we acknowledge it in its original, the Hebrew Bible or the Tanach/Tanakh. Other posts from this same MUST READ resource are: Wisdom Books […]
Read more[First posted in 2012. This is from: The Literary Guide to the Bible, eds. Robert Alter and Frank Kermode. Reformatting and highlights added.] —————— The Canon Frank Kermode This chapter offers some explanation of the processes by which the Bible came to include the books it does—insofar as that can be done […]
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