{First posted in 2012, contributed by Sinaite ELZ@S6K who entered her final Sabbath Rest on December 31,2013; check this link: God is near, do not fear . . . Friend, Sinaite, goodnight. This was part of the doctoral dissertation she had written about the book of EXODUS. The feast of Passover covers the period from […]
{First posted in 2012, contributed by Sinaite ELZ@S6K who entered her final Sabbath Rest on December 31,2013; check this link: God is near, do not fear . . . Friend, Sinaite, goodnight. This was part of the doctoral dissertation she had written about the book of EXODUS. The feast of Passover covers the period from […]
Read moreWhat would you have expected to read in this post if the title grabbed you enough to check it out? Would you have expected that this would be about the Revelator on Sinai, the God of Israel, the God of all nations, the God of Sinai? Well, in an indirect way, it is about Him, […]
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 in April 2012, reposted April 2014. This year, 2016 from April 22 to 30, Jewry commemorate two feasts that recount the history of their liberation from Egyptian bondage: Passover and Feast of Unleavened Bread. Translation: EF/Everett Fox, The Five Books of Moses.—Admin1.] ————————— The starting point of any journey is significant in the […]
Read more[Continuing Chapter 2 of James Tabor’s Restoring Abrahamic Faith: THE WAY; first posted July 2, 2012.—Admin1.] ————- Remembering the seventh day (Saturday) Sabbath is a vital part of the restoration of true BIBLICAL FAITH. This fourth commandment is not a minor statute or ordinance to be changed or abrogated with the passing of time. It is […]
Read more[This was first posted October 2012, reposted October 14, 2014. Commentary is by NSB@S6K. Translation: EF Everett Fox, The Five Books of Moses. The regular commentaries usually featured will be added later; for now we are simply changing the translation from our former choice. .—Admin1.] If you suddenly heard an audible voice speaking […]
Read more[First posted November 4, 2012.] This chapter covers two incidents; this first one should have been attached to the manna incident in the previous chapter since it is similar and almost sounds like a refrain; in fact, this pattern of ‘need-complaint-wishwewerebackinEgypt’ will keep recurring, but for now the narrative says: the people complain again […]
Read more[This is a Sinaite’s perspective. Translation: EV/Everett Fox, The Five Books of Moses. First posted November 16, 2012.–Admin1..] Picture yourself as a clueless gentile among the mixed multitude of slaves gathered at the foot of Mount Sinai. You’ve known these Hebrew slaves since you ended as a slave yourself in Egypt. You went through that whole experience […]
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[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, […]
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