by Shmuel Parzal | Dec 22, 2025 | Uncategorized
This is part 1 of a 3-part series on the Essenes, comparing their teachings and beliefs with those of Yeshua. Throughout this set of 3 articles, I have used ChatGPT. It would have taken me far too long to research through the entire corpus of Qumran literature myself...
by Shmuel Parzal | Dec 22, 2025 | Uncategorized
This is a follow-up article to a previous article, where I defined the biblical difference between Apocalypse and Tribulation. To summarise, an apocalypse is a literal end of the world, with a cessation of the present cosmological order, to be completely replaced by a...
by Shmuel Parzal | Dec 18, 2025 | Uncategorized
Shalom everyone, On ancient Jewish tombstones in Aramaic, in Yeshua’s time, a common refrain carved on them was, dakir hu le-tab, ‘May he be remembered for good’, or dekirah hi le-tab, ‘May she be remembered for good’. This was an ancient way of saying, ‘May the act...
by Shmuel Parzal | Dec 6, 2025 | Uncategorized
Shalom everyone, Around Britain, there are recreations of villages from different time-periods in ancient British history. There is one famous one called Butser Farm, which began life as an Iron Age farm, recreating life from about 2,500 years ago. The aim of these...
by Shmuel Parzal | Dec 5, 2025 | Uncategorized
I was recently asked to explain what was distinctive about Massorite Talmidaism, in comparison to Ebionism. As for what a Massorite is, it would be too simplistic to say that we are just ‘Karaites who follow Yeshua as a prophet’, because it’s not as clear-cut as that,...
