The Jewish Targumim, with one exception regarding Bilhah and Zilpah that will be discussed in chapter seven, appear to make no distinction between the two terms, translating both as אמהא or אמתא.25The Peshitta (Gen. and Exod.) also uses forms of אמתא ...
First, the idea of a Divine Personality, and of the union of the two Natures in the Messiah, seems to have been foreign to the Jewish auditory of Jesus of Nazareth, and even at first to His disciples. Secondly, they appear to have regarded the Messiah as far above the ordinary human,...
It is interesting when we survey the NT text, looking for the major themes; the one overarching theme is hope. Hope is the confident expectation of God’s promises and the assurance of His presence and power. Hope is not wishful thinking or blind optimism, but a solid conviction based...
The Covenant Setting - This is what Moses said to all of Israel in the Transjordanian wilderness, the arid rift valley opposite Suph, between Paran
The Vulgate here has followed the surmise of the Jewish commentators, who saw nothing in Balaam but the arch-enemy of their race, and has actually altered the text into "dabo consilium quid populus tuus populo huic faciat" (cf. Numbers 31:16). Parallel Commentaries ... HebrewNowוְ...
the word of the Lord was precious in those days.Clarifying the meaning of this phrase, theTargum of Samuelreads: “the word of the Lord was hidden in those days; no prophecy was revealed.”[xxvii]According to Robert Alter, the phrase indicates that “there is some sort of breakdown in ...
Mishnah When the word min occurs in the Mishnah (the Jewish oral law, completed ca. AD 200) it bears a plurality of meanings. It has gained the meaning of 'heretic' or 'divisive one', but also retains its older biological meaning. We may see this in the way a rabbinic dispute ...
6 Furthermore, why does he deal first with the evening [Shema']? Let him begin with the morning [Shema']! — The Tanna bases himself on the Scripture, where it is written [And thou shalt recite them] . . . when thou liest down and when thou risest up,7 and he states [the oral...
(Ecclesiasticus), also speaks of the books—”scrolls”—that have become authoritative for the Jewish people then: “the law and the prophets and the otherbibliaof our ancestors” (1:10). These brief occurrences are of extreme importance because they also indicate that by the second and ...
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