Tag: Judaism

• Me and the Hebrew Bible

  I’ve never regretted choosing to specialise in ‘Hebrew and Old Testament’ when I studied ‘Divinity’ over 50 years ago. My only regret is that I did so as a very ‘conservative’ Christian, with a correspondingly semi-closed mind, but it’s never too late to remedy such things. Currently I’m reading through the first 15 chapters of…

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  6th Oct 2022

  Christianity, Hebrew Bible, Literature, Mythology, Old Testament, Poetry, Religion

  Bible, Buber, Christian, Exodus, Hebrew, Judaism, Nazis, Old Testament, Palestine, Simon Schama

• Rethinking Jesus (09) The Pharisees (ii)

  The previous post outlined the origins of the Pharisees, and suggested that they and Jesus, in many ways, ‘sang from the same hymn sheet’. It also, however, outlined reasons for the antagonism that grew between Judaism and the ‘Jesus movement’, once it began to become the ‘Christian Church’, rather than a Jewish ‘sub-group’. This increasing…

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  11th Feb 2022

  Christianity, Jesus of Nazareth, Literature, New Testament, Poetry, Religion

  Jesus, Judaism, Love, Pharisees, Purity, Ritual, Social Outcasts, The Law