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Happy New Year (Rosh HaShanah)
Happy (Jewish) New Year!! Today is Rosh Hashanah (“head/first of the year”), the beginning of year 5771 in the Jewish world. Rosh Hashanah is one of Judaism’s “high” holidays, and some very significant traditions are associated with it. Rosh Hashanah marks God’s creation of the world, and is the “birthday” of Adam and Eve. The [...]
Also posted in News and Events, Temple Tagged Atonement, Creation, Day of Atonement, Jewish, Judaism, kingshjip, New Year, Rosh Hashanah, shofar, trumpets Comments closed
Major Trends in Hekhalot Literature Research
MAJOR TRENDS IN HEKHALOT LITERATURE RESEARCH are summed up in an article by Shlomo Brody in Text and Texture: “The Aleinu Prayer and the Pardes Story: Major Trends in Hekhalot Literature Research” (Via James Davila at PaleoJudaica.com)
Also posted in Apocalypticism/Mysticism, Heavenly Ascents, Pseudepigrapha/Apocrypha, Religious Scholars Tagged Aleinu Prayer, Early Judaism, Hekhalot, James Davila, Pardes Story, Shlomo Brody Comments closed
New “Exagoge” of Ezekiel the Tragedian Fragment
Via my professor James Davila at PaleoJudaica.com: PSEUDEPIGRAPHA WATCH: Bob Kraft e-mails: I just returned from the Papyrology Congress in Geneva, and you will be interested in the paper by Dirk Obbink (Oxford), “A New Fragment of Ezekiel’s Exagoge from Oxyrhynchus.” According to the abstract, this “newly identified papyrus … preserves the earliest textual witness [...]
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Ancient Israelite Religious Reformation (OT Lesson 30)
2 Chronicles 29-30; 32; 34 (2 Kgs 18-19; 22-23) The Sunday School curriculum calls this lesson “Come to the House of the Lord.” This is an appropriate title for this block of scripture, as the narrative here relates how kings Hezekiah and Josiah of Judah cleansed the Temple of Jerusalem of all the alleged idolatrous [...]
Also posted in Doctrinal Issues, Scripture, Sunday School Lessons Tagged Asherah, bamot, Brant Gardner, Chronicles, destruction, Deuteronomic, Deuteronomist, Deuteronomy, Frederick Huchel, groves, Hezekiah, high places, idolatry, Josiah, Kevin Christensen, kings, masseboth, reformation, Reforms, Temple Comments closed
New Work Released on The Book of Noah
NEW BOOK published by the SBL: Noah and His Book(s) Michael E. Stone, Aryeh Amihay, Vered Hillel ISBN 1589834887 Status Available Price: $45.95 Binding Paperback Publication Date June, 2010 In a collection of original essays, this book offers new insights on the question of the lost “book of Noah,” as well as studies of Noah’s [...]
Also posted in Early Christianity, News and Events, Pseudepigrapha/Apocrypha, Religious Scholars Tagged Jim Davila, lost books, Michael Stone, Noah, Pseudepigrapha, SBL Comments closed
Answers to Questions Regarding Heavenly Ascent in Early Jewish and Early Christian Literature
This post comprises some very interesting questions posed to me by a new reader of this blog, Steve Bastasch, regarding the development of the “heavenly ascent” theme in early Christian thought and writings and their Jewish background. My answer to these questions follows. ————————————————————————— Steve: I’m new to your Heavenly Ascents blog – it looks [...]
Also posted in Apocalypticism/Mysticism, Early Christianity, Heavenly Ascents Tagged Alan Segal, Crispin Fletcher-Louis, Early Christianity, Early Jewish and Christian Mysticism, Early Judaism, Enoch, Heavenly Ascent, Heavenly Ascents, Hebrew Bible, James Davila, Jesus, Jim Davila, kavod, Martha Himmelfarb, mysteries, New Testament, Qumran, Rabbinic Judaism, Second Temple Judaism Comments closed
Professor Jim Davila on Christology: Son of God and Son of Man