[MUST READ: Paul and Jesus: How the Apostle Transformed Christianity; reformatting and highlighting ours; Paul’s ‘quotes’ in red to signify‘caution’.]   Excerpts from INTRODUCTION Paul never met Jesus.  This book is an exploration of the startling implications of those four words.  The chronological facts are undisputed.  Jesus of Nazareth was crucified during the reign of […]

This is another excellent book by James D. Tabor, author of Abrahamic Faith and The Jesus Dynasty among other books. Like we do other books featured as MUST READ and sometimes MUST OWN, we provide enough for you to get interested in securing a copy for yourself, downloadable from amazon.com on a kindle app.   CONTENTS Map: The […]

[Bart D. Ehrman chairs the Department of Religious Studies at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill.  he is an authority on the history of the New Testament, the early church, and the life of Jesus.  He has taped several highly popular lecture series for the Teaching Company and is the author of Lost Christianities: […]

Recent Articles Related to the Book: Paul and Jesus by James Tabor Tabor:  “I have published several articles of late in the mainstream press that might be of interest to SWW folks [“SWW” stands for Synagogue Without Walls].They are all related to my new book, Paul and Jesus, but are designed to particularly address Christians in […]

[This is not only a MUST READ but recommended as a MUST OWN; authored by Chief Rabbi Jonathan Sacks, the subtitle is:  Jews, Judaism, and Israel in the Twenty-First Century.  Earlier we had featured excerpts from one chapter, the post is titled Why the Jews?  It is downloadable as ebook/kindle book from amazon.com.  We will feature […]

[Where Judaism Differed by Abba Hillel Silver was first published in 1956; there was a 1972 edition; unfortunately, there is no ebook version that is downloadable for kindle or nook. There are used paperback copies listed at amazon.com for $3.24 (1972) and $2.65 (1956) and one new copy for $50! Since this book is not […]

[The concluding chapter of Abba Hillel Silver’s MUST READ book for this week. Reformatting and highlights ours.]   DIFFERENCES AND UNDERLYING UNITY We have dwelt on the great new insights of Judaism which are easily recognizable at all stages of its development and which gave it a distinctive stamp and character: that God is One— Spiritual […]

[This is the first chapter of  the book by Abba Hillel Silver titled One and the Same. Reformatting and highlights ours.]   When we speak of Judaism, we are dealing with a religion some 35 centuries old, covering nearly 2/3 of the recorded history of mankind.  Judaism experienced many changes and modifications through its long history—changes induced […]

[The complete title of this book by Amy-Jill Levine is:  The Misunderstood Jew: The Church and the Scandal of the Jewish Jesus. The author is another Jewish writer who endeavors to bridge the gap, the chasm between Jews and Christians. This book is downloadable from amazon.com as an ebook, readable on the free kindle app.] Excerpts […]