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Monthly Archives: November 2010
Joseph and the Covenant of Blessing
The Joseph stories have long been thought to be more than simple reporting of the life of the patriarch. Too much resemblance between Joseph’s life, and the life of all the patriarchs, and Israel’s later history is present to ignore. … Continue reading
Posted in Bible, Christian, Judaism, Judeo-Christian, messianic, Messianic Jewish, Messianic Judaism
Tagged Abrahamic Covenant, Genesis
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BiblioBlog Notes for Nov 29, 2010
A few links of interest today. You can find a page with easy reference to the best BiblioBlogs and ArchaeoBlogs and MJBlogs and more at MJPassages.com Palestinian Revisionist History (on Jim Davila’s Paleo-Judaica Blog). Josephus on the Messiah Concept (at … Continue reading
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Lessons from Hanukkah
The Hanukkah story is powerful from many angles. What are its lessons for modern Jews and Christians? Note that if you order today and ask for one-day shipping, you could probably get FFOZ’s Hanukkah guide to use with your family … Continue reading
Vridar Against the Messiah Concept
Vridar is the moniker of Neil Godfrey, an avid fan of some rather extreme historians such as Thomas L. Thompson, Philip R. Davies, Niels Peter Lemche, and other pleasant individuals (avid politickers for the Palestinian cause using historical writing to … Continue reading
Posted in Bible, Christian, Judaism, Judeo-Christian, messianic, Messianic Jewish, Messianic Judaism, Yeshua, Yeshua In Context
Tagged Copenhagen School, Neil Godfrey, Vridar
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Announcement: MJPassages
http://MJPassages.com Your intersection for good things Jewish, Christian, Messianic Jewish, Judeo-Christian, biblical, archaeological, and theological. It’s not yet a finished product, but there’s a good bit already to explore. Should be easy to explore on your triptophan buzz this Thanksgiving … Continue reading
The Misunderstood Kingship of Yeshua
The following commentary is on Matthew 21:1-11. I consider the larger context of Zechariah 9 and how it affects our reading of the Triumphal Entry. I’d say that even modern commentators have not given this sufficient attention in many cases. … Continue reading
Whaddya Think? Resurrect J-BOM?
We used to have something here called J-BOM (Jewish Book of the Month Club). And we had hundreds of people reading the same Jewish books all over the U.S. and overseas. It was great. A regular Messianic Jewish Musings reader … Continue reading
Posted in Book Reviews, J-BOM, Judaism, messianic, Messianic Jewish, Messianic Judaism
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SBL 2010, I Lied . . . Back to the Historical Jesus
I lied yesterday. I didn’t mean to. It’s more like I exaggerated. I was a bit fed up with the historical Jesus project. And I was hasty to say I wouldn’t go to any more historical Jesus sessions at SBL … Continue reading
Posted in Bible, Yeshua, Yeshua In Context
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SBL 2010, Amy-Jill Levine
Amy-Jill Levine is a rockstar. That’s my conclusion after hearing her speak for the first time. It was a panel discussing whether faith is incompatible with “objective” historical research in the historical Jesus project. Several evangelical Christian panelists made their … Continue reading
The Mountain in the Sermon
The following information is derived from a paper by Eric Ottenheijm of the University of Utrecht presented at the 2010 Society of Biblical Literature in the Matthew section. In Matthew 5:1, Yeshua went up on “the mountain.” No one knows … Continue reading
PODCAST: Yeshua in Context – Failure and Faith
The story of a failure on the disciples’ part turns into a lesson on the secret identity of Yeshua in Mark. But in Matthew it becomes a lesson on faith as the way we are united with God and Yeshua. … Continue reading
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Tagged Podcast
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Classic Repost: Hanukkah, MJ Style
The first candles of Hanukkah will be lit on December 1 (a Wednesday night). People are already searching for Hanukkah articles and information. Here is a Messianic Jewish Musings Classic, a telling of the Hanukkah story Messianic Jewish style. Enjoy. … Continue reading
Posted in Holidays, Judeo-Christian, messianic, Messianic Jewish, Messianic Judaism
Tagged Hanukkah
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Shmuley Boteach’s Non-Divine, Non-Messianic Jesus
Shmuley Boteach has a book soon to be released about how non-Jews can save Judaism and how Jesus is a prophet, but not divine or any kind of messiah. Judaism is a failure, he says. It’s too tribal. It has … Continue reading
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Tagged Shmuley Boteach
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A Naturalist Proposes Marriage
My darling, I love you. I cannot help myself and I have no free will in this matter. What I mean by that is some evolutionary instinct in me recognizes clues to your abundant fertility and motivates me to offer … Continue reading
Posted in Humor, Philosophy
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Miracles (C.S. Lewis), #1
See yesterdays “God in Search of Man, #1” for an explanation of this series exploring a Jewish and a Christian thinker who have much in common. I am much more familiar with Lewis than Heschel, having a fair collection of … Continue reading
Posted in C.S. Lewis, Christian, Faith, Love, messianic, Messianic Jewish, Messianic Judaism, Philosophy
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God in Search of Man, #1
Messianic Judaism is, in essence, a hybrid faith incorporating Jewish and Christian traditions and theology. I have for some time had in mind a project: reviewing some works by one Jewish and one Christian thinker who might be termed seminal … Continue reading
Posted in Abraham Joshua Heschel, Bible, Christian, Faith, Judaism, messianic, Messianic Jewish, Messianic Judaism
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The danger of messianic misunderstanding
Just at the moment of understanding who Yeshua is we risk his rebuke . . . The danger of messianic misunderstanding. Read it on the Yeshua in Context blog: http://yeshuaincontext.com/2010/11/the-danger-of-messianic-misunderstanding/
The difference between religion and philosophy…
From Abraham Joshua Heschel, God in Search of Man: Not only are the problems of philosophy not identical with the problems of religion; their status is not the same. Philosophy is, in a sense, a kind of thinking that has … Continue reading
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A love that never stops…
From George MacDonald, Unspoken Sermons, 1867: Nothing is inexorable but love. Love which will yield to prayer is imperfect and poor. Nor is it then the love that yields, but its alloy . . . For love loves unto purity. … Continue reading
PODCAST: Yeshua in Context – The Untransfiguration
“Tell no one of the vision, until the Son of Man is raised from the dead,” said Yeshua. Chapter 1 of Yeshua in Context is about stories, Yeshua’s story and ours (and how they intersect). The story of Yeshua has … Continue reading
Posted in Bible, Faith, Yeshua, Yeshua In Context
Tagged Dale Allison, Transfiguration
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Good Reads Coming in Messiah Journal 105
I just got an advance copy of Messiah Journal 105 (available at ffoz.com). Aside from the fact that I have an article in this issue (“Yeshua’s Example in Spirituality and Ethics”), this new issue is another example of why First … Continue reading
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Not Jewish yet Drawn to Torah, Part 3
In Part 1 of this series, I had one main point and several sub-points. The main point: non-Jews learning Torah should realize that the primary audience of Torah is the Jewish people. Sub-points: (1) Torah, like gospel, is not anyone’s … Continue reading
Posted in Bible, Christian, Gentiles, Judaism, Judeo-Christian, messianic, Messianic Jewish, Messianic Judaism, Torah
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Yeshua in Your Car
Of making many books there is no end, and much study is a weariness of the flesh. So says Ecclesiastes 12:12. I’m a book guy. I start my mornings with coffee and surround myself with a Bible and some commentaries. … Continue reading
PODCAST: Yeshua in Context, Kingdom Concepts
Kingdom is a word more people have been using to describe the essence of Yeshua’s message in the last decade. What is it about beyond generalities? A few of Yeshua’s sayings on the matter are well-known. A few are rarely … Continue reading
Posted in Bible, Christian, Gospel, Judaism, messianic, Messianic Jewish, Messianic Judaism, Yeshua, Yeshua In Context
Tagged Kingdom, Podcast
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