Consider this comparison: the Moedim are to time what money is to tithes and offerings. Even as we grow in faith and understanding by honoring God with our money, so we learn of His redemptive plan and his sovereign rule through the Moedim. We learn that all time (like all of our ...
II.Torah in the restricted sense ofPentateuch.—The Torah relates the preparatory measures for and the establishment of the Old-Testament theocracy, and contains the institutions and laws in which this theocracy found its visible expression. TheOld Testamentitself calls the entire work after its ma...
Wellhausen’s negative view of “Pharisaic Judaism” as compared with the Old Testament prophets and the moral teachings of Jesus cannot be understood as a purely abstract comparison of religious traditions. Instead, Wellhausen was speaking about religious groups in his own time, specifically Catholics...
Among the more prominentmiddotare thekol wa-ḥomer(“how much more”), in which the interpreter proceeds from a minor to a majorpremise, and thegezera shawa(comparison of similar expressions, or laws), in which aninferenceis made byanalogy. Thekol wa-ḥomerrule is limited by the prin...