Shalom everyone, There are some religious preachers who will threaten or shame you into following their teachings. I‘m not going to do that. There are some religious teachers who will wow you by proclaiming that they are spiritually evolved beings, who have been...

General Introduction The Yahwist principle of mutual responsibility comes from the transactional nature of the various covenants described in the Miqra. Living life under God's Covenant implies a mutual relationship, and so if one side in any given relationship is...

General Introduction This is the third in my series of ‘reaction articles’ to the recent set of lectures given on 27-28 May 2023, by Dr Bart Ehrman, on the topic of ‘Jesus & Paul: The Great Divide’ (you can read my very first article in this series by...

Some forethoughts I remember an episode of Stargate SG1 ('Avatar', S8 Ep6), where Teal’c had to re-live the same day over and over again – a day of battle inside the SG1 base, each time correcting all the mistakes that he had made in the previous incarnation of the...

General Introduction This is the second in my series of ‘reaction articles’ to the recent lectures given on 27-28 May 2023, by Dr Bart Ehrman, on the topic of ‘Jesus & Paul: The Great Divide’ (you can read the very first article in this series by clicking here)....

How the Prophets of the Hebrew Bible understood Times of Tribulation If you read the books of the biblical prophets, you’ll see that they criticise Israelian and Judean society for various kinds of social injustices (e.g. oppression and exploitation of the poor,...

General Introduction This will be the first in my series of ‘reaction articles’ to the recent lectures given on 27-28 May 2023, by Dr Bart Ehrman, on the topic of ‘Jesus & Paul: The Great Divide’. In those lectures, my overall view is that he successfully managed...

Shalom everyone, I have recently been watching various documentaries on YouTube about the supposed location of the biblical city of Sodom, and they all came up with different locations. Some of them even tried using the text of the Torah to pinpoint the location, and...

Shalom my brothers and sisters, In my last blogpost, I tried to get across to you the ancient Israelite understanding of the very nature of God – of Yahveh. Not just some impersonal, obscure or vague theological definition of God, but the real, living Yahveh of Moses...

Shalom everyone, Becoming aware of the anatomy of your soul is analogous to suddenly becoming aware of the complex biome of tiny creatures, bacteria and fungi that live on the outside of your body, as well as the bacteria and fungi that live inside...