“Unparallel parallels which feed a partisan ego scarcely represent good scholarship…”
Unparallel parallels which feed a partisan ego scarcely represent good scholarship, whether the dabblers...
Tag Archives: New Testament
“A careful reader of the Gospel is able to uncover the author’s motives and intentions while at the same time making connections between the images in the Gospel with other images, or ‘truths’, presented in the Talmudic ‘library'”
True storytellers never tell, they show. Michael Riffaterre uses the concept of “fictional truth”...
“When a New Testament scholar provides evidence that the Judaism of the dual Torah…flourished in the early decades of the first century in Galilee, then…”
When a New Testament scholar provides evidence that the Judaism of the dual Torah,...
“…it is a fruitless quest to continue to try to find elusive rabbinic sources for everything which Paul wrote”
In the case of Paul and the rabbis, let us assume that, at no...
“I am only suggesting the lack of value in many value judgments, when these emerge from an acquaintance merely with excerpt instead of with the intent, and the nuances, of a literature”
Rabbinists have sometimes assumed that a gospel pericope was lifted bodily from the Gemara....
“R. Elijah Zvi Soloveitchik…wanted Christians to understand their scripture anew through sympathetic Jewish eyes and to educate his Jewish readers about their misunderstanding of Christianity”
R. Elijah Zvi Soloveitchik, the traditional rabbi from Lithuania…is actually more sympathetic to Christian...
“Most Jews fear to read the New Testament, and most Christians read the New Testament unaware it is permeated with Jewish ideas and images”
Most Jews fear to read the New Testament, and most Christians read the New...
“…what the parables mean today is different from what they meant to the Jews who first heard them twenty-one centuries ago”
The parables are among the most memorable aspects of Christian instruction. Ministers still preach...
“Perhaps what most strikes the naïve reader of the Book of Revelation is what a close-run thing the battle is…”
Perhaps what most strikes the naïve reader of the Book of Revelation is what...
Considering the Parable of the Traveler
According to the Torah, both the koheyn (priest) and the Levite were prohibited from...