Tag: Palestine

• 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

• Because Jesus was a Jew …

  At some point, possibly in the 27 CE, beside the river Jordan, in a part of the world known to its Roman overlords as Palestine, a charismatic preacher, John by name, was holding forth to all who would listen to him. He was also baptising those who found themselves agreeing with his message, some of…

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  13th Jun 2021

  Hebrew Bible, Jesus of Nazareth, New Testament, Old Testament, Religion

  Church, Isaiah, Jesus, Jew, Kingdom of God, Palestine