judaism
Studies involving Jewish Scripture, tradition, and theological themes with relevance to biblical interpretation.
The Sons of God of Deuteronomy 32:8 Revisited Paid Members Public
This is a follow up to my post on the identity of the sons of God in Deuteronomy 32:8 /2018/10/28/the-sons-of-god-of-deuteronomy-328-angels-or-the-children-of-israel/. Someone quoted a “scholar” who appealed to the Targum Pseudo-Jonathan to prove his point that even the Jews that translated the Pentateuch into Aramaic viewed the
The Sons of God of Deuteronomy 32:8: Angels or the Children of Israel? Paid Members Public
According to Deuteronomy, God divided the nations in respect to his people, the children of Israel: “When the most High divided to the nations their inheritance, when he separated the sons of Adam, he set the bounds of the people according to the number of the children of Israel.” Deuteronomy
Atonement and the Apocrypha: Some Questions Concerning the Deutero-Canonical Books Paid Members Public
In this post, I will highlight some of the reasons why I have a difficulty accepting the Jewish apocrypha writings as sacred Scripture. My purpose is not to offend the Christians who do view these books as God-breathed revelations. Rather, my intention is to showcase some of the problems I
Does the word Elohim in Genesis 1 point to God’s Triunity? Paid Members Public
This post is meant to go with my series titled Elohim and the Trinity https://answeringislam.net/authors/shamoun/elohim_trinity.html. The readers may already be aware of the fact that Elohim is a plural noun since the “im” at the end is a masculine plural suffix. This is
AN OPEN CHALLENGE TO MUSLIMS CONCERNING THE BIBLE Paid Members Public
The Quran emphatically testifies that one of its main functions is to confirm/bear witness to the textual reliability and authority of the very Scriptures that the Jews and Christians had with them during Muhammad’s time: O Children of Israel! call to mind the (special) favour which I bestowed
Abraham as Echad: Addressing a Muslim Objection Paid Members Public
A particular Muslim polemicist raised the following objection in response to the Christian understanding that the Hebrew word echad, which Deuteronomy 6:4 uses to describe the oneness of God, actually points to God being a complex or compound unity, as opposed to existing as a singular or absolute one:
How Rabbinic Judaism’s Belief in Two Messiahs proves that Jesus is the Christ Paid Members Public
It may come as a surprise to some of the readers to discover that rabbinic Judaism came up with a belief in two distinct Messiahs, namely, the Messiah son of Joseph (also called the son of Ephraim), and the Messiah son of David. The rabbis further taught that the Messiah
A Leading Jewish Rabbi Exposes the Duplicity of Jewish anti-Christian Missionaries! Paid Members Public
One of the leading rabbinic Jewish philosophers and scholars, the late rabbi Joseph Immanuel Schochet, candidly admitted in his review of a work by a fellow Jewish scholar that rabbis often employ weak (meaning not so honest) arguments to refute Christians which they know do not necessarily reflect the actual