[Art by AHV@S6K] Oh Creator of the Universe, May Thou guide our intellect Thy supreme sin-destroying Light, May we receive in the right direction. [Source Unknown] Merciful Judge of all mankind, we thank You, for bringing us out from our own “Egypt” where we in our ignorance were in bondage, ignorant of Your True Scriptures, the TNK. […]
Read more[MUST READ: Paul and Jesus: How the Apostle Transformed Christianity; reformatting and highlighting ours] Paul was a Jew who did some very un-Jewish things. He converted Gentiles to the people of God– without imposing on them the normal requirements of the halachah for conversion. More, he actually strongly discouraged his converts from— undergoing circumcision or observing the Torah, […]
Read more[This is part of the series The Bible as ‘Literature’ from the excellent MUST READ The Literary Guide to the Bible, eds. Robert Alter & Frank Kermode. Imagine Hebrew writers of antiquity already had a grasp of the poetic forms and expressions which best expressed the language of Divinity in their Scriptures and yet western scholars had for so […]
Read moreMany of these habits of reticence may be plausibly attributed to an underlying aesthetic predisposition. The masters of ancient Hebrew narrative were clearly writers who delighted in an art of indirection in the possibilities of intimating depths through the mere hint of a surface feature, or through a few words of dialogue fraught with implications. […]
Read more[Continued from: The Bible as ‘Literature’ & The Bible as “Literature” – 2 – Introduction to the ‘Old Testament’. Reformatted and highlighted for post.] —————– The evidence of the texts suggests that– the literary impulse in ancient Israel was quite as powerful as the religious impulse, or, to put it more accurately, that the two were inextricable, so […]
Read more[For what it’s worth for those who wish to read The Bible as ‘Literature’, these excerpts from The Literary Guide to the Bible, eds. Alter and Kermode, offer a different approach to reading this book of antiquity, not as ‘religious” or “sacred text” but more as literary pieces, some even masterpieces, worthy to land in the reading […]
Read more[Please read part I : MUST READ: Forged by Bart D. Erdman] Chapter Eight Forgeries, Lies, Deceptions, and the Writings of the New Testament When I give public talks about the books that did not make it into the New Testament, people often ask me about apocryphal tales they have heard. What do we know […]
Read more[One of the Search Engine terms that keep showing up on our radar is “orthonymous.” While it sounds like it might be related to orthodontics it simply means literally “rightly named” and the word is found in the book we are featuring here as not only MUST READ but for those who really want to […]
Read more[UPDATE 2017: This monthly “aid” for searchers has been replaced first by “Yo Searchers! Need Help?” Then to use a word closer to our cultural Filipino/Tagalog word for strangers, we resorted to “Hoy” shortened to “Oy!” And it became — “Oy Searchers! Need Help?” for every month of every year. The original intention was to help web […]
Read more[This is the 3rd contributed article by “RS”, originally shared with his friend BAN@S6K, which we have been granted permission to post as a series. If you have not yet done so, please read the earlier posts: Christian Discovers YHWH, Shares “Evidence” & Christian Discovers YHWH, Shares “Evidence” – 2. The original article has been reformatted according […]
Read more