Rules of Engagement (2)

BySkip Moen, Ph.D.

Then God spoke all these words, saying,  Exodus 20:1  NASB All these words – Modern Jewish biblical scholars draw our attention to some difficult paradoxes.  Nachmanides is an example: Our teacher Moses wrote this book of Genesis together with the entire Torah as dictated by the holy One, blessed is He. . . . It…

The End of the Beginning (3)

BySkip Moen, Ph.D.

For Ezra had set his heart to seek the law of YHWH, and to do it, and to teach in Israel statutes and ordinances   Ezra 7:10  JPS 1917 To seek – Judaism and Hellenism, Martin Hengel’s magnum opus, might at first glance appear to be a study of the difference between these two streams.  At…