Functional Equivalence

BySkip Moen, Ph.D.

“and a second is like it:  You shall love your neighbor as yourself.”  Matthew 22:39  ESV Like it – The Greek word homoia is a word about equivalence.  It means “of the same kind” or “belonging equally.”  It is often used in rabbinic teaching in the phrase, “Who is like?”  We need to recognize that…

Wedding Week

BySkip Moen, Ph.D.

and He gave to Moses, when he finished talking with him upon Mount Sinai, two tablets of Testimony, tablets of stone, written by the finger of God. Exodus 31:18 Finished – The rabbis noticed something special about the connection between this verse and Jeremiah 7:34.  They are both about a wedding.  But you don’t see…