judaism
Studies involving Jewish Scripture, tradition, and theological themes with relevance to biblical interpretation.
THE ANGEL METATRON: JUDAISMS’ SECOND YHWH Paid Members Public
This is a continuation from the following post: TWO POWERS IN HEAVEN: REVEALING ISRAEL’S SECOND GOD. In this specific installment I will be focusing on the angelic figure which the Talmud names Metatron. This is the One that the rabbis identify as the Angel who bears God’s very
TWO POWERS IN HEAVEN: REVEALING ISRAEL’S SECOND GOD Paid Members Public
RABBINIC JUDAISM’S STRUGGLE WITH DIVINE PLURALITY In this post I will be citing from specific rabbinic sources highlighting the difficulties that rabbis had with the very same [O]ld [T]estament texts cited by Christians and others to prove the existence of multiple divine Persons within the Godhead. The
Is Mohammed Really Predicted in Deuteronomy 33:2? Paid Members Public
Answering Osama Abdullah’s Open Challenge #1 I came across this challenge on Osama Abdullah’s Answering Christianity website a while back, and had filed it away in my mental “to do” list, but then promptly forgot about it until this summer. Here Mr. Abdullah, a Muslim apologist of the
GOD’S SON IN TARGUM NEOFITI REVISITED Paid Members Public
This is a follow up post to my article where I discuss the Trinity in Targum Neofiti (TN for short): THE TRINITY IN TARGUM NEOFITI. TN contains a remarkable paraphrase of Genesis 1:1, where it is explicitly stated that YHVH has a Son who made creation in wisdom: From
PRE-CHRISTIAN EXEGESIS OF ISAIAH 52:13-53:12 Paid Members Public
With the discovery of the Dead Sea Scrolls (DSS) in 1947, we have now found what many believe is the oldest extant interpretation of Isaiah 52:13-53:12. This is due to some of the fragments that were found, which scholars have named the “Self-Glorification Hymn”.Photos of these fragments
ISRAEL’S MULTI-PERSONAL GOD Paid Members Public
The Hebrew Bible proclaims that Jehovah is the only Elohim (“God”) who reigns from heaven forever, and the only Adonay (“Lord”) that a believer has and trusts in: “Thus saith thy Lord (Adonayik) Jehovah, and thy God (Elohayik) that pleadeth the cause of his people, Behold, I have taken out
ALLAH= HUBAL= BAAL= SATAN Paid Members Public
According to the Hebrew Bible, one of the names of Baal is Baal Zebub: “After Ahab died, Moab rebelled against Israel. Ahaziah fell through a window lattice in his upper chamber in Samaria and was injured. He sent messengers with these orders, ‘Go, ask Baal Zebub, the god of Ekron,
Jesus and the Mysteries of Kabbalah Paid Members Public
by Jews for Jesus February 09 2010 God as a trinity? No way!” “We Jews don’t believe in the idea of a divine incarnation!” “And we don’t believe in vicarious atonement!” “A New Testament?! Are you meshugge?!“ For many Jewish people, these statements are givens. Or are they?