Judaism knows of no "law of sin in the body" of which Paul speaks (Rom. vii. 23-25). Some commentators have found the doctrine of original sin in Ps. li. 7 (see Ibn Ezra and Delitzsch, ad loc.); but the view receives in general no support from rabbinical literature (see Lev. ...
Judaism knows of no "law of sin in the body" of which Paul speaks (Rom. vii. 23-25). Some commentators have found the doctrine of original sin in Ps. li. 7 (see Ibn Ezra and Delitzsch, ad loc.); but the view receives in general no support from rabbinical literature (see Lev. ...
That fierce opposition to the non-YWHW cults sprang up must be supposed in order to account for Jezebel's persecution of the prophets of YHWH, conduct untypical of a polytheist except in self-defense. Elijah's assertion that the whole country apostatized is a hyperbole based on the view t...
In short, Jesus did not fit who they expected the Messiah to be. In fact, most of what Jesus did ran contrary to their view of a Messiah. For example, in Jesus' day, the Jewish religious leaders held strictly to the Old Testament laws against working on the Sabbath. Jesus, however, ...
decent. This view is not from the Torah, but from the beliefs of rabbis from the middle ages who were trying to preserve Judaism and prevent intermarriage. It's hard to make a case that moving away from this is in any way related to the laws of God or traditional beliefs based on ...
The latter view is favored here. The note of Watson (1980: 335) is pertinent in this context: "I would like to point out that it is not always advisable to draw theological conclusions on the basis of a particular word, differentiating, for example, between ṣedeq and ṣĕdēqâ ...
placing particular emphasis on freedom of the will. Clearly, no doctrine of humanity can be erected on the basis of these several verses alone—a broader view must be taken. A careful examination of the biblical material, particularly the wordsnefesh,neshama, andruaḥ—which are often too bro...
Some appear to have concluded that all believers should therefore abandon sexual relations and become celibate, apparently a view held by some in Corinth, occasioning Paul’s response, which insisted that this was not to be so and that marriage and sexual relations were not to be seen as sin...
Totality and Infinity, a defense of subjectivity, is therefore “An Essay on Exteriority”. Exteriority is otherness as “known” from the self’s inner point of view. In prophetic epistemology knowledge constitutes the relation of an inner self “with a surplus that is always exterior to ...