[First posted September 30, 2012 as an “In Memoriam” of a God-Seeker who ended his life pilgrimage as one of us, Sinaites. It has been four years since we posted this, we have not forgotten our co-travellers who fast-forwarded their journey straight into the arms of the God they have sought all their lives. They […]
Read more[This was first posted July 28, 2013. And so we reach the last book of the Torah. . . this is from The Literary Guide to the Bible, eds. Robert Alter and Frank Kermode our MUST READ/MUST OWN. We have recently added Robert Alter’s THE FIVE BOOKS OF MOSES to Everett Fox’s THE FIVE BOOKS OF MOSES, both […]
Read more[First posted July 27, 2013. This is the 4th book in the series we are featuring from one of the best resources in our S6K library, a MUST-READ/MUST-OWN book titled The Literary Guide to the Bible, eds. Robert Alter and Frank Kermode. As we keep reiterating, a non-religious, non-theological approach to the Hebrew Scriptures which focuses […]
Read more[First posted July 26, 2013. As the opening sentence of this article says: “Perhaps the greatest problem facing students of the Bible as literature is the fact that so much of the Bible is not literature at all.” We, like most readers, have struggled with chapter after chapter of this book as well […]
Read more[First posted July 26, 3013. This is part of the series on a literary approach to the books of the Torah. Please read the introductory note in Bereshith/Genesis if you have not yet done so. If serious readers/students of the Christian Bible and the Hebrew Scriptures were literature-majors, these documents of ancient antiquity would […]
Read more[First posted July 26, 2013. The good thing about a ‘literary approach’ to Scripture is that it reminds us that first and foremost, Scripture is “language” and not simply communicated information with the use of spoken/written words but in the case of Scripture, the written record smacks of literary expressions full of figures of speech […]
Read more[This is one of a series of email exchanges between Sinaites and our Evangelical-turned-Messianic Bible teacher identified as “RW”. This post and others related to it are dated in the year 2012, two years after we left Christianity/Messianic Judaism. Our former Christian colleagues avoided us like the plague but our former Bible teacher continued to […]
Read more[This was first posted in 2014. Sukkot this year 5777/2016 falls on October 17.—Admin1.] ———– The first time I attended a Sukkot festival was when (then-messianics-now-Sinaites) VAN and BAN invited me to their congregation’s celebration. If I didn’t know they were into Christ-centered Messianic Judaism (that sounds like a triple oxymoron), I would have […]
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Read moreIn keeping up with the “spirit” of the end of the month from Halloween to the beginning of next month opening with the Christian celebration of All Saints and All Soul’s Day, we’re reposting a series of articles that focus on the UNKNOWN, what lies beyond this life, and all the imaginary creatures spawned by […]
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