[First posted August 28, 2012.—Admin1]   Terence Donaldson is the author of several books:  Paul and the Gentiles: Remapping the Apostle’s Convictional World Jews and Anti-Judaism in the New Testament: Decision Points and Divergent Interpretations Religious Rivalries and the Struggle for Success in Caesarea Maritima (Studies in Christianity and Judaism) Jesus on the Mountain: A […]

[This is from Interview at Notre Dame in the Appendices of MORAL GRANDEUR AND SPIRITUAL AUDACITY, essays edited by AJH’s daughter Susanah Heschel.  We have featured bits and pieces of this’ MUST READ/MUST OWN book, downloadable as ebook on any kindle app. “I” stands for the Interviewer, not named but obviously a Catholic from Notre Dame.  Reformatting […]

[This was first posted June 11, 2012, revisited Dec. 8, 2014, and deserves to be reviewed on this 2015 observance of “My feast” of Shavuot, in commemoration of YHWH’s giving of the Torah to the “mixed multitude.”     This is one of 40 essays written by Abraham Joshua Heschel circa 1953, in a collection edited […]

[First posted in 2014;  Chapter 3 of our MUST READ/MUST OWN book:  The Jewish Mystique by  Ernest Van Den Haag.   Other posts from this book: “What makes the Jews so Jewish?” Israel is the Promised Land . . . but not for American Jews MUST READ/MUST OWN – The Jewish Mystique – Ernest van […]

[If you haven’t done so, please read the prequels to this post:   Revisited: “Who’s Afraid of the Old Testament God?” 1 and Revisited: “Who’s Afraid of the Old Testament God?” – 2,  first posted 2012 and reposted 2014,  still and always will be relevant.—Admin1.]   Rule of thumb for seekers of Truth:   Keep an open mind […]

[Please read Revisited: “Who’s Afraid of the Old Testament God?” 1 before reading this post for this to make sense.;  first posted 2012, reposted April 2014.  Always worth the revisit.—Admin1] ————————————–   I don’t intend to feature the whole book here but I do want to share with our ‘FWH’ (frequent website habitues) the statements that should […]

[We are into Easter,  the ‘bookend’ season marked by the death and resurrection of the Christian Messiah/Savior; the beginning ‘bookend’ would of course be Christmas, the designated ‘birth’ of the same.     This 3-part series about the ‘Old Testament God’ was first posted in August 2012, reposted April 2014.  These posts are worth revisiting […]

[Since we have resurrected the whole series on the origins of the messiah idea, this is revived from its December 9, 2013 first posting.   Finally, the pièce de résistance!  The question is answered by James D. Tabor in his usual ‘it’s-not-that-simple’ way, because it has to be qualified first.  This whole chapter that we […]

[First posted July 3, 2012.   This concludes Chapter 5, “THE WAY” of the book we have been featuring in this series:  James Tabor, Restoring Abrahamic Faith.  We consider this book a “wake-up call” not only for ourselves but our Christian colleagues with whom we attempted to share its contents.  Our former messianic teacher called […]