Recently, the Temple Institute released the blueprints for the Chamber of the Hewn Stone (the Lishkat haGazit, in Hebrew), the area of the Temple complex in which the Sanhedrin would convene. This is very exciting to see, and makes the possibility of the Holy Temple’s rebuilding somewhat tangible. Even more so is the computer-generated, virtual …
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In my previous post, I began examining where the Gentile dominated church began to ignore Paul’s warning in Romans 11 of becoming arrogant in their engrafting into the covenant people of God. But if some of the branches were broken off, and you, although a wild olive shoot, were grafted in among the others and …
The other day I reviewed the excellent work, In the Shadow of the Temple, by Oskar Skarsaune. Today, I would like to elaborate on a few of his thoughts in regard to the place of Jews and Gentiles in the people of God. In looking at the development of Christianity in the years after the …
In the Shadow of the Temple : Jewish influences on early Christianity by Oskar Skaursaune 455 Pages InterVarsity Press, 2002 Until reading this book, I was totally unaware of Skarsaune and his literary offerings. Now, I realize how deprived I have been. In In the Shadow of the Temple, Skarsaune begins his account of the …
Jerusalem Post reports the following: Police officers stumbled on a large stash of jugs and coins dating back from the Second Temple era in the Galilee village of Mazara on Thursday, during an arms raid. The archeological finds were kept in a yard belonging to family suspected by police of keeping arms. After finding the …
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