Hebrew Language #6 Hebrew Literature #3 Halakhah

Halakhah We must now return to the 2nd century. During the period which followed the later canonical books, not only was translation, and therefore exegesis, cultivated, but even more the amplification of the Law. According to Jewish teaching Halakhah. (e.g. Abhoth i. 1) Moses received on Mount Sinai not only the written Law as set […]

Hebrew Language #5 Hebrew Literature #2 Torah, Apocryphal literature and Targum

Apocryphal Hebrew literature It is not to be supposed that all the contents of the Old Testament were immediately accepted as sacred, or that they were ever all regarded as being on the same level. The Torah, the Law delivered to Moses, held among the Apocryphal literature.Jews of the 4th century B.C.E. as it holds […]

Theological Interpretation of Scripture and Biblical Criticism: Childs and Wellhausen

Looking at: On what grounds — theological or historical — Brevard Childs denied Julius Wellhausen’s basic two-part plotline of Israel’s religious history.

Written and translated by different men over thousands of years

Today there are still people in english speaking countries who claim the King James Bible to be the only true Bible. They do seem to forget that God did not require everybody to be able to speak and read English fluently. They also seem to forget that the original language God had chosen was Hebrew […]

Organizing the Bible and the Talmud

Originally posted on The Thousand-Year View:
My latest blog post for The Jewish Journal: Do you know what it says in the Book of Deuteronomy, Chapter 8, verse 3? Unless you’re a rabbi or a savant, you probably don’t. Neither do I. But we know how to look it up. We just open the Torah,…

God’s Blog recorded in a Book

God’s Blog in print Voice of God in the Book of books available to everyone. Voice of God to eternity Word of Jehovah God “did any other people ever hear the voice of god speaking out of a fire, as you have heard, and stay alive?” (Deuteronomy 4:33 CJB) “from heaven he caused you to […]

Creator and Blogger God 12 Old and New Blog 2 Blog for every day

The Old and New Blog Blog for every day God His Words are too important, His message of such high value, that if we really love Him we could not bear it to be a day without His ‘love letters’. Let us cling to His Voice as if it is the most precious treasure, knowing […]

Creator and Blogger God 1 Emptiness and mouvement

Creator and Blogger God History of the development Created from the void, blackness and light When we want to buy a stationary or a portable computer, First all the material to make it has to be searched for, put together, formatted and programmed or otherwise we would be just sitting with empty boxes which could […]

Statutes given unto us

“1  “now, Isra’el, listen to the laws and rulings I am teaching you, in order to follow them, so that you will live; then you will go in and take possession of the land that \ADONAI,\ the god of your fathers, is giving you. 2 in order to obey the \mitzvot\ of \ADONAI\ your god […]

Order of Bible Books – Volgorde Bijbelboeken – Liste des livres de la Bible

English: One of the possible orders of the Book of books and common names is the one as presented in “The Scriptures” and used in the ecclesia Brussel-Leuven by the Christadelphian community in their services in Brussels, Leefdaal, Leuven, Mons and Nijvel/Nivelles. In the French capital, for the three monthly service the oecumenical order is […]

Missional hermeneutics 5/5

Tool to fulfil duties Having all Scripture, the God-breathed instruction book we have the major tool in taking up our duties. Having the most valuable Book for teaching the truth, convicting of sin, correcting faults and training in right living those who belongs to God may be fully equipped for every good work, and should […]

Missional hermeneutics 4/5

Recognising Message For us who study the Bible as believers, it is also important that we recognise the message Jesus delivered from God to his kinsmen, the Jews. But Jesus did not came only for them. He came to proclaim the Word of God for the whole world. He brought a call to repentance from […]

Missionaire hermeneutiek 3/5

Alles plaatsen in zijn tijd Bij het lezen van de Bijbel hebben we een tekst te interpreteren die in vroegere tijden geschreven is geworden en in latere tijden samengesteld is geworden. Op zich is de Bijbel een verzameling van meerdere boeken die in verschillende stylen zijn geschreven en op het eerste zicht onafhankelijke literaire werken […]

Missional hermeneutics 2/5

Quest for self-understanding With the realization that people have the ability themselves to appeal through meaningful reality, to perceive senses, understand and communicate, ie to give understanding , we as Bible Researchers, in such humanity open to all cultures and keep constantly training ourselves. Our ability to understand our prudence is primarily a capacity to […]