Today the UK based White Nationalist group Patriotic Alternative gave us their “plan for a healthy, successful and prosperous United Kingdom. The below points cover a variety of areas including education, law, health, the environment, immigration and the media.” I intend… Read More ›
Paula Fredriksen is Professor of Scripture at Boston University and Distinguished Visiting Professor of Comparative Religion at the Hebrew University of Jerusalem. In her latest work When Christians Were Jews: The First Generation Fredriksen writes: ‘The Paul of history stands… Read More ›
The Issue of Worship One of the key questions in the debate about the divinity of Jesus has been whether he is worshiped in a way that “principal agents” of God are not (see Hurtado, How on Earth Did Jesus… Read More ›
Being “washed in the blood of the lamb” has become a more appealing cultural image to our minds than “washed in the blood of the hairy goat,” but it seems that neither image, in connection to the removal or “atonement”… Read More ›
‘The one big exception to this generalisation about shared moral assumptions between Christianity and Judaism was that early Christians argued with Jews about the extent to which they were bound by the specifically religious or ritual aspects of the Jewish… Read More ›
This short extract gives us a good flavour of what historians have discovered about the gospels. Matthew shows a more profound learning of the scriptures than Mark and is altogether more sophisticated in his language, often polishing up Mark’s Greek… Read More ›
PORTLAND, OR—Local woman Peyton Hill says she definitely would not have supported the Holocaust if she lived in Nazi Germany during the 1930s and 1940s, thinking herself enlightened by the glorious morality of the current year and not susceptible to… Read More ›
An eleven-year-old Jewish boy was failing maths. His parents tried everything from tutors to hypnosis; but to no avail. Finally at the insistence of a family friend, they decided to enroll their son in a private Catholic school and take… Read More ›
What attracted Jesus to John the Baptist? John exercised a large-scale and high successful prophetic ministry of repentance to Israel. He called upon the whole of Israel to return to the Lord, and he backed this up with ethical teaching…. Read More ›
An impassioned and thoughtful critique of Christian beliefs about God and the messiah from a Jewish perspective. Worth taking seriously.
بِسْمِ اللهِ الرَّحْمٰنِ الرَّحِيْم Prophet of “Sensuality” and “Inconsistency”? Refuting Sam Shamoun’s Incompetence and Deception Originally posted on the Quran and Bible Blog “And [also prohibited to you are all] married women except those your right hands possess. [This is]… Read More ›
This looks amazing. Dr Norman Finkelstein is a truly courageous man.
Within a century of the death of Mohammad, in 632, Muslim armies had conquered almost the whole of the world where Jews lived, from Spain eastward across North Africa and the Middle East as far as the eastern frontier… Read More ›
