New Testament “Most Jews fear to read the New Testament, and most Christians read the New Testament unaware it is permeated with Jewish ideas and images” Author Drew Kaplan Date 25 January 2015 Most Jews fear to read the New Testament, and most Christians read the New...
New Testament “…what the parables mean today is different from what they meant to the Jews who first heard them twenty-one centuries ago” Author Drew Kaplan Date 18 January 2015 The parables are among the most memorable aspects of Christian instruction. Ministers still preach...
Christianity, Politics in America “American Christianity is generally not a religion of scholarship. It’s a religion of feeling and emotion” Author Drew Kaplan Date 11 January 2015 Many Christians don’t know the Bible, nor do they care to know the Bible....
New Testament “Perhaps what most strikes the naïve reader of the Book of Revelation is what a close-run thing the battle is…” Author Drew Kaplan Date 4 January 2015 Perhaps what most strikes the naïve reader of the Book of Revelation is what...
New Testament Considering the Parable of the Traveler Author Drew Kaplan Date 4 January 2015 According to the Torah, both the koheyn (priest) and the Levite were prohibited from...
Movies, New Testament “…it’s possible for a popular narrative to be susceptible to an allegorical reading and still be engaging mostly for its spectacle…” Author Drew Kaplan Date 12 December 2014 …it’s possible for a popular narrative to be susceptible to an allegorical reading and...
New Testament Considering the Phrase that “the ‘arc of the moral universe is long, but it bends toward justice'” Author Drew Kaplan Date 7 December 2014 …many claim to have found in John ‘the promise, famously repeated by Martin Luther...
Christianity “Should the menstrual prohibition be kept literally by Christians?” Author Drew Kaplan Date 2 December 2014 Should the menstrual prohibition be kept literally by Christians? Medieval Christian authors often argued...
Christianity, Lubavicher Hasidim “…when you have made up your mind to believe that your rabbi is God, neither death nor disappearance will discourage you” Author Drew Kaplan Date 1 December 2014 Apparently, when you have made up your mind to believe that your rabbi is...
Christianity, New Testament “Against the way Christians often remember it, Jesus did not proclaim a New Testament God of love against an Old Testament God of judgment…” Author Drew Kaplan Date 9 November 2014 Against the way Christians often remember it, Jesus did not proclaim a New Testament...