[This was first posted May 24,2012. Updated for this repost. —Admin1.] “Inconvenience” is defined by the dictionary as “trouble or difficulty caused to one’s personal requirements or comfort” and, may we add, difficulty caused to one’s desire to do as he wishes. God’s Truth is inconvenient to the man who would rather ignore […]
[This was first posted May 24,2012. Updated for this repost. —Admin1.] “Inconvenience” is defined by the dictionary as “trouble or difficulty caused to one’s personal requirements or comfort” and, may we add, difficulty caused to one’s desire to do as he wishes. God’s Truth is inconvenient to the man who would rather ignore […]
Read more[This was first posted May 28, 2012. Recently Sinaites had a discussion about details of this narrative and none of us could remember exactly how old Noah was before and after the flood, how many years did it take him to build the ark . . . we don’t blame our forgetfulness on so-called ‘senior […]
Read more[First posted July 3,2012. More on James Tabor’s Restoring Abrahamic Faith, Chapter 5: THE WAY, concluding section; edited and reformatted for website reading.] ——————- Jewish tradition tells us that the entire TORAH, or Five Books of Moses, contains 613 Commandments (mitzvot). At least two-thirds of these deal with—- matters of the […]
Read more[This was first posted October 25, 2014. These are introductions to the first book comprising the TORAH. They are from two of our MUST READ/MUST HAVE resources: one is from our translation of choice — Everett Fox (EF), The Five Books of Moses while the second is from Robert Alter (RA) who has also done his […]
Read more[This was first posted on November 4, 2012. Commentary is from a Sinaite’s perspective. Translation: EF/Everett Fox, The Five Books of Moses.–Admin1.] ———————- If the New Testament is merely a continuation, a fulfillment of the “Old Testament,” then how did NT church practices veer so far away from the original? It is explained that […]
Read more[This was first published June 10,2012. Future-oriented bible readers tend to read the signs of the times as fulfillment of biblical forthsaying, whether in the Old or the New Testament of the Christian Bible. Prophesied dates and years pass and still no sign of fulfillment, except perhaps for one: the return of Israel to the […]
Read more[First posted June 5, 2012; the Sinaite’s early notes on a book we had not yet determined at the time, would be what we would later decide as the true Word of YHWH.—Admin1] —————————- The word “TORAH” has been bandied about all over this website. We have endeavored to explain what we mean […]
Read more[We are in the season of revisits and revisions. This was first posted May 21, 2012; we revised the original article in this repost. Question: Has the Creator-God given humanity knowledge about Himself or has He left humanity ignorant and guessing Who He is, what is He like, how He is to be called, […]
Read more[NASB] And I will put enmity between you and the woman, and between your seed and her seed; He shall bruise you on the head, And you shall bruise him on the heel. [AST] I will put enmity between you and the woman, and between your offspring and her offspring. He will pound your head, […]
Read more[In the previous post on this chapter, we featured commentary from Pentateuch & Haftorahs, ed. Dr. J.H.Hertz as well as Sinaite’s discussion; here, the commentary is from EF/Everett Fox, RA/Robert Alter, whose translations are similarly titled The Five Books of Moses; additional commentary is from REF/Richard Elliott Friedman. When there are more than one commentators featured, there is a […]
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