Actually this blog is more than just studying Torah; it has topics reflecting on various passages all through out the Tanach (the Jewish Bible). But where ever we travel in the Tanach, our foundation is upon the Torah (the first five books of the Tanach). So in a round about way we ...
they could give Dinah as a wife for Hamor’s son and the two families would become one people. The sons of Jacob used this religious act of circumcision as ploy to attack the Hivites and plunder their city. The Bible goes out of its way to tell us that Jacob’s son put forth the ...
Based on the various readings in text and differences between the ancient versions and Masoretic text, the consonantal text of the Hebrew Bible was susceptible to change, corruption, and human interference, which amounted to an attack on the verbal inspiration of Scripture. W Louis_Cappel ...
The Torah nowhere says. That would be unthinkable in a workof statutory law. Biblical “law” is not “law”at all—in the sense ofstatutorylaw.Let’s look at two examples of how law in the Bible is negotiated througha common law mentality. Recall the parable of the poor man’s ewe ...
Never again in the Hebrew Bible is the Garden of Eden referred to as an extant habitation of God; yet, unless the targumic reading is original, we are never told when or even that it ceased to be so. Who Dwells Among the Cherubim A final point in favor of this reading is its ...
The Torah in Bereisheet tells that Hhava got pregnant from her husband Adam, not by artificial insemination. The same is true with ALL the other bringing of progeny throughout the TaNaKH (Holy Bible – Torah, Neviim {Prophets}, Ketuvim {King Solomon’s writings etc}. Not one lesbian pumpin...