torah
Explorations of the Torah’s teachings, historical context, and theological foundations.
TALMUD, JEWS, GENTILES & DEATH PENALTY Paid Members Public
I quote from the Babylonian Talmud, Sanhedrin 57a to show what it says about the punishments that are to be inflicted upon Gentiles and Jews who either commit murder or robbery. These references are interesting since they reveal that there is a difference in respect to a Gentile who murders
Talmud, Balaam & Bestiality Paid Members Public
According to the Babylonian Talmud, Sanhedrin 105a–105b, Balaam used to have sex with his donkey and used his penis as a means of divination: קוֹסֵם בְּאַמָּתוֹ הָיָה. כְּתִיב הָכָא: ״נֹפֵל וּגְלוּי עֵינָ
The Talmud on OT Authorship Paid Members Public
The following excerpts are taken the from the Babylonian Talmudic tractate Bava Bathra, and deal with the authorship of the Old Testament books. One interesting position mentioned by the Baraita is that there were rabbis who actually believed that God had Moses record his own death and burial in advance
Judaism, God as an Angel & Malachi 3:1 Paid Members Public
According to the Talmud, it was God himself who appeared as the Angel in the pillar of cloud/fire in Exodus 13:21: Another matter: “Behold, I am sending an angel” – the Holy One blessed be He said to Israel: Had you merited, I, Myself, would have become a messenger
The Son Becomes God’s Sin-Offering Paid Members Public
In two passages, the Apostle Paul depicts Christ’s death in respect to the OT sacrificial system, employing a particular Greek term which the Greek rendering of the Hebrew Bible applies for the offerings made for sins. The texts in question are: “That which the Law, weakened by the flesh,
Early Church Fathers & the Shema Paid Members Public
The inspired NT writings take the Greek rendering of the following OT text, which is considered to be the heart of the Jewish religion, “Hear, O Israel! Yahweh is our God, Yahweh is one!” Deuteronomy 6:4 “Hear, O Israel, The Lord our God is one Lord (kyrios ho theos
THE PREEXISTENT TORAH AND MESSIAH Paid Members Public
According to Genesis Rabbah, the personified Wisdom which speaks in Proverbs 8:22-36 is the preexistent Torah that was there alongside of God from before the creation of the world. It also interprets the light that YHWH clothes himself with according to Psalm 104:2, and the light that has
THE VOICE OF YHVH APPEARS Paid Members Public
In this article I will quote rabbinic sources to prove that when in Genesis 3:8 it is stated that Adam and Eve heard YHVH’s Voice walking, that this Voice was not simply the sound of God walking through the Garden. Rather, the rabbis admitted that God’s Voice