[First posted in 2013.  As Christians/Messianics, we—Sinaites—must have studied the book of Daniel no less than a dozen times,  because it had been drummed into our clueless minds  that the only way we could and would and should understand the last prophetic NT book of Revelation is by understanding the OT book of Daniel, for the […]

[First posted in 2014, reposted 2017 to counter the claim that this psalm is one of many ‘prooftexts’ in the Christian Old Testament– that Jesus is the “son” being referred to here [Read: —Discourse: Christian Elder to Sinaite – 10].   The reason for this 3rd reposting  is — a visitor clicked it during Holy Week (so what?).  […]

[This is part of the series QUID EST VERITAS or “What is truth?” — first posted in 2013.  Other related posts: Pilate: ‘Quid est veritas?’ – Gospel Truth? – 1 “Quid est Veritas”: Gospel Truth? – 2 “Quid est veritas?” – Gospel Truth – 3 Quid est Veritas – 4 – Old Truth, New Truth, […]

[First posted in 2013.  Sinaites do not consider the whole of the “Bible” as the “very words of God” like we did when we were Christians.   We  have come to believe that the Torah or first five books of Moses contain “the very words of God” as well as instructions  given to Israel’s Prophets […]

[On March 11, Jewry celebrate Purim, a feast not originally included in the seven “My Feasts” commanded by the God of Israel as recorded in Leviticus 23.  It commemorates an event that occurred much later than the 40-years wandering of Israel in the wilderness of Sinai as narrated in the Five Books of Moses known as […]

[If there is evidence that the literary approach greatly aids one’s understanding of the Hebrew Scriptures, it would be the book of Esther/Hadaççah(Haddasah). This particular discussion first posted in 2013, feels like you’re reading a commentary of a Shakespearean play — plot, characterization, denouement, etc.  In fact, the whole story of Esther begins to sound like […]

[First published in 2014.   The translation used here is a composite of various translations, though the main text is from The Complete Tanach by Rabbi A.J. Rosenberg, courtesy of Chabad.org.  For the Book of Iyov/Job specifically, we choose to use “sons of God” instead of ‘”angels” or the Hebrew ‘malakim’, and ‘the adversary’ interchangeable with the […]

[This is still part of our series from  our MUST READ/MUST OWN resource:  The Literary Guide to the Bible,  eds. Robert Alter and Frank Kermode. We have found this totally objective approach to be helpful to readers/students, since no doctrinal interpretation is infused, thereby distorting the plain meaning of the text. This concludes the series, i.e. we’ve […]

[This is still part of our series from The Literary Guide to the Bible,  eds. Robert Alter and Frank Kermode. We have found this totally objective approach to be helpful to readers/students, since no doctrinal interpretation is infused, thereby distorting the plain meaning of the text. This concludes the series, i.e. we’ve featured all the OT books, […]