This past Shabbat, February 5 (1 Adar, 5771), a beloved co-laborer and spiritual mentor, Dwight A. Pryor, of the Center for Judaic-Christian Studies, passed from this world into the next. Following are some of my thoughts about Mr. Pryor and how he impacted my life. One of my earliest exposures to the Jewish roots of …
It appears there has been a “marriage in heaven” between faith and technology. The Apple iPhone has a new “Confession” app, approved by the Roman Catholic church (this would probably akin to a hechsher in Judaism). It appears that this virtual experience will allow a penitent to completely bypass the clergy. I asked a Catholic …
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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 …
For a long time, archaeologists and biblical minimalists have renounced the idea of an Israelite captivity in Egypt corresponding to the biblical record of the Exodus. Today, evidence has been published to the contrary. Manfred Bietak, director of the Institute of Egyptology at the University of Vienna and of the Austrian Archaeological Institute in Cairo, …
