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 ...

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.

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 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.” ...

The Christian and the Jewish readings of the Hebrew Bible are both driven by forces external to the actual text. For Christians, the writings of Paul, part of the New Testament, are one such major ...

Up front, I'd have to say that I have a cultural and professional bias toward the Hebrew Bible (Old Testament). So perhaps it's best to focus on articulating some of its literary strengths: 1 ...

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.” ...

Author’s Note: Interested readers can find all previous volumes of this series here. Today we begin a two-part study exploring the Meaning of Light in the Old Testament, and next week the New ...

The Psalms are also the Hebrew Bible book from which Jesus quoted most often. According to the chart referenced above, what follows is the New Testament's most quoted Psalm verse: "Of David.