What are Jewish laws? Is the Old Testament part of the Torah? What books are in the Talmud? What are the main sections of the Hebrew Bible? Why was the Torah written? How many commandments are there in the Torah? What are the Pentateuch books of the Old Testament?
In The Meaning of the Bible: What the Jewish Scriptures and Christian Old Testament Can Teach Us, preeminent biblical scholars Douglas A. Knight and Amy-Jill Levine deliver a broad and engaging introduction to the Old Testament—also known as the Tanakh or Hebrew Bible—offering a wealth of ...
Inthe Bible, we see this with figures like Moses, who prays for his sister, Miriam. “Oh God, please heal her” (Numbers 12:13). We even see the success of such prayers from figures like Hagar, the wife of Abraham, who beseeches God for the salvation of their baby Ishmael. The sag...
1. Darkness points to the simple fact of human ignorance. Those who are "in the dark" are those who lack knowledge. To the Jewish mind, this metaphor had particular application to the Gentile world - a world that had not received the grace of God through the revelation of the Torah...
In each age, He does a new work and expresses new words. Like in the Age of the Grace, the Lord Jesus did a new work and expressed new words. But the Jewish priests and Pharisees held on to the Old Testament. They not only rejected and condemned the Lord Jesus, but even nai...
Before discussing further the subject, "the Son of Man" as depicted in the Jewish Apocalypses, a few facts must be carefully taken into consideration. First, these Apocalypses not only do not belong to the canon of the Hebrew Bible, but also they are not even included among the Apocrypha...
So the Jewish people agreed to do what Mordecai had written to them, and they agreed to hold the celebration every year. Haman son of Hammedatha, the
12 Now, Israel, what does the Lord your God require of you except to revere him,[re] to obey all his commandments,[rf] to love him, to serve him[rg] with all your mind and being,[rh] 13 and to keep the Lord’s commandments and statutes that I am giving[ri] you today for you...
Those who accept a martyr’s death are promised a crown, but nowhere does the Bible grant an exemption for those who reject Jesus, coercion notwithstanding. Not in the Church Age, and not during the Tribulation. “Whosoever shall seek to save his life shall lose it; and whosoever shall ...
Matthew was the second book to be written, between 75 and 90 AD. It also portrays Jesus as the Jewish Messiah and Son of God, fulfilling the Old Testament messianic prophecies. Matthew is believed to have been written for the Jews, as there is little to no explanation of Jewish traditions...