No Religion is an Island – Conclusion – “Revelation to Israel continues as a revelation through Israel.”

[This is a revisit; first posted  2012; part of a series  from No Religion is an Island by Abraham Joshua Heschel (AJH).  Related posts are: Revisit: No Religion is an Island – Abraham Joshua Heschel Revisit: No Religion is an Island – 2 – “To equate religion and God is idolatry” – AJHeschel Our most recent acquisition […]

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The Ever-Renewed Covenant

[First posted 2015.  The “new”covenant claimed by Christianity as God’s covenant with the Church is found nowhere in the Hebrew Scriptures, even as Jeremiah 31:30-33 is cited as the ‘Old Testament’ prooftext.  When you read those verses carefully and closely, you will discover that the same parties that cut a covenant at Sinai are named as […]

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Exodus/Shemoth 20: “I am YHWH”

[First posted in 2012, part of the Exodus series.  Translation:  The Five Books of Moses by Everett Fox “EF”; where text is unclear, it will be supplemented by AST/Artscroll Tanakh and Robert Alter’s The Five Books of Moses.  The commentary are from S6K and AST and EF.–Admin1] ——————————————– Exodus/Shemoth Chapter 20 God spoke all these statements, saying: S6K: […]

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