Robert Burns’s famous couplet came to mind as I read this book: “O wad some Pow’r the giftie gie us / To see oursels as ithers see us!” In this case, the “Power” is two Jewish scholars, Amy-Jill ...

The New Testament’s most dangerous book for Jews. Reading and preaching Hebrews without supersessionism. ... 16th-century fresco (St. Nicholas Toplički Mona­stery, North Macedonia) In 1993, as a ...

The New Testament passage the tattoo likely refers to reads: “Do not be anxious about anything, but in every situation, by prayer and petition, with thanksgiving, present your requests to God.” ...

Jewish aversion to the New Testament is rooted in both religious law and historical experience. Some passages in early rabbinic literature bar Jews from reading the Gospels, Cook said.

Finding a way to read the New Testament that actively values the Hebrew Bible, that does not assume theologies like supersessionism (where the Jewish people have been rejected by God and replaced ...

In Hebrew, it would properly be rendered אל הפיליפים — meaning, “To the Philippians.” Philippians was not written in Hebrew, but Greek, like much of the New Testament.

The New Testament’s Answers The New Testament comes out of a wholly different milieu. First, it is part and parcel of the broad changes in religious thought that we know as “Hellenization.” ...

As someone with a deep involvement in the subject, I read Fr. Clifford's article with great interest and appreciation. With regard to the knotty problem of Christian naming of the Jewish Torah ...

“My life basically changed,” he recounted, “when William R. Farmer, the senior New Testament scholar at Perkins, decided that I should have a year of study abroad” to study Hebrew.

The New Testament includes three passages that explicitly refer to “households” being baptized: “She was baptized, with her household” (Acts 16:15) ...