But I’ll say that many “Torah” (Talmudically filterd)instructions like the eternal war on “Amalek” comes from these old “divine Jews.” Do you validate massacring the Palestines,for example? Then,what is your point here, Prodigal, whom do you want to ‘protect’? Jesus himself wa...
some claim that only the Old Testament portion of the Bible is Jewish, referred to mostly as “The Torah.” When the New Testament part is included, they refer to it as the “Christian Bible.”
Given OT structures and the role of the Torah in the life of Israel, the position that encounters more prima facie problems is the one advocated by BOH. God can and does work through written texts to communicate who he is and how we are to live—even though BOH’s appropriation of OT ...
Modern scholars have claimed not only that Ezra brought the Torah to Jerusalem, but that he actually wrote it, and in so doing Ezra created Judaism. ... Moslem scholars also maintain that Ezra falsified the Old Testament, since Mohammed, the last judgment, and Heaven and Hell are revealed ...
For Talmudic Orthodox Jews, the Talmud rates ahead of the Torah (Old Testament: 5 Books of Moses) in importance. The same Talmudic book, that calls Jesus a “False prophet, burning in Hell, and Mary, a whore, that conceived him out of wedlock, with a Roman soldier.” So, you see, ...