HEBREW, ISRAELITE OR JEW?By the late Pastor F. W. DowsettAUSTRALIAIt will no doubt come as something of a surprise to most Christians to find that the literal word ‘JEW’ does not appear in the entire original text of the Bible, neither the Old nor the New Testaments. The original ...
A. Paul Hare, ed. The Hebrew Israelite Community.(Book Review)Miller, Timothy
17 The whole Israelite community left the desert of Sin, moving from one place to another at the command of the Lord. They camped at Rephidim, but there was no water there to drink. 2 They complained to Moses and said, “Give us water to drink.” Moses answered, “Why are you co...
From Black Jew to Hebrew Israelite: the Emergence of the Black Nationalist Consciousness in Black JudaismKey, Andre
This is the normal way for Hebrew to express a negative oath—“they will by no means see….” The sentence is elliptical; it is saying something like “[May God do so to me] if they see,” meaning they won’t see. Of course here God is taking the oath, which is an ...
The region’s revival in modern times is a result of Zionist colonizations. Beginning with the village of Rosh Pinna (Hebrew: “cornerstone”) in 1882, a string of settlements was set up; these proved to be key bargaining points in the inclusion of all Galilee in the Britishmandate(1920)...
Jesus’s being handed over to death provides freedom for a guilty Jewish-Israelite. Furthermore, Jesus’s cryptic statement to the “daughters of Jerusalem” casts his death as a prefiguration of Israel’s corporate fall (Luke 23:27–31; cf. Hos 10:8; Luke 2:34–35). He is the ...
For example, the yearly ritual of recounting the Passover story to family members, particularly to children “as if you were there as an Israelite in Egypt”, is an important high holiday within Jewish custom. The narrative is one of overcoming slavery and persecution with Moses saving the ...
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When Deborah ruled in northern Israel, God sent word for Barak to lead an attack on the army of King Jabin and General Sisera. For twenty years Jabin’s kingdom “had harshly oppressed the children of Israel” (Judges 4:3, 6). Because Barak was reluctant to lead the Israelite forces, ...