by Shmuel Parzal | Sep 18, 2023 | Uncategorized
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...
by Shmuel Parzal | Sep 15, 2023 | Uncategorized
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...
by Shmuel Parzal | Sep 12, 2023 | Uncategorized
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...
by Shmuel Parzal | Sep 1, 2023 | Uncategorized
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...
by Shmuel Parzal | Aug 25, 2023 | Uncategorized
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)....
by Shmuel Parzal | Aug 18, 2023 | Uncategorized
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,...
