[First posted July 16, 2015, revisited October & November 2015; can’t resist another review.   This chapter in Jon D. Levenson’s SINAI and ZION, is on the same page, so to speak, with Sinai 6000.  This discussion validates Sinaites’ raison d’etre as the non-religious ‘movement’ for gentiles who are seeking or are in transition, who […]

[First posted September 6, 2014.   To religionists, the answer to the Q: ‘Why God?’ would be ‘Why not God?’ But even as believers, occasionally we might wonder ‘God, are you there? Are you real? Are you in control?’ — particularly when we look at the state of the world today and when we don’t […]

[This was first posted 2012, reposted 2015. In the addendum to our Statement of Faith on this website’s HOME page (see Further to our Statement of Faith) we wrote this: “One of the books that greatly influenced our Sinai 6000 community is a book authored by James D. Tabor, Restoring Abrahamic Faith, available on the web at www.Genesis2000.org.” […]

[First posted September 27,2012, reposted January 4, 2014.  The opening excerpt of this featured book is:    The truth, and therefore our understanding of God’s Will as expressed in the Torah, grows over time.     We have often emphasized in this website that it is not YHWH’s TRUTH or REVELATION that is progressive; rather it is […]

[“What if the Hebrew Bible wasn’t meant to be read as “revelation”? What if it’s not really about miracles or the afterlife – but about how to lead our lives in this world? The Philosophy of Hebrew Scripture proposes a new framework for reading the Bible. It shows how biblical authors used narrative and prophetic […]

  [This was first posted March 14, 2013, reposted June 9, 2015;  the sequel to :  MUST READ: Another “How to” read the Hebrew Scriptures. Whenever we recommend a ‘must read’ we usually provide a sampling of what we call ‘book ends’, excerpts from the Introduction and Conclusion of the book.  So these are from […]

[First posted March 14, 2013.    Yoram Hazony, author of The Philosophy of Hebrew Scripture explains the organization of the contents of his book. We have painstakingly featured this book in 3 installments to encourage our website habitues to get your own copy because it belongs to the few categories we have pushed not only as MUST […]

[Read the post: MUST READ: Another “how to” read the Hebrew Scriptures – 3    This is Chapter 9 of our MUST READ/MUST OWN book: The Philosophy of Hebrew Scripture by Yoram Hazony. The author used two words throughout his discussion and now takes the time to explain what he means by each word. Reformatting and highlights added.—Admin1.] […]

[First posted on April Fools Day, 2015; as the song goes, “fools rush in where angels fear to tread.”  Ponder this.   We have always wondered:  Why is the One True God, YHWH, threatened by “other gods” when no such gods exist?  Our answer:  because the one created being made in His Image has the […]

[This picks up from the first post:  MUST READ: SINAI & ZION – 1,   by Jon D. Levenson, featuring Chapter 1 where he presents an interesting perspective on how to read and understand the biblical record of what Israel experienced on the mountain of Sinai.  It cannot be read as ‘history’ per se, but more as […]