Tanakh

  • Written in Stone

    Remember, please, the word which You commanded Your servant Moses, saying, ‘If you are unfaithful, I will scatter you among the peoples;  Nehemiah 1:8  NASB The word which You commanded – Nehemiah is a personal account of the effort to reconstruct fallen Jerusalem.  It’s a vivid, compelling, intensive story of one man’s fervent desire to restore…

  • Re – rereading

    Just as it is written, “For Thy sake we are being put to death all day long; we were considered as sheep to be slaughtered.”  Romans 8:36 citing Psalm 44:22  NASB As it is written – What can separate us from the love of God?  If you read Paul’s argument in Romans 8, the answer…

  • Who Said That?

    and when He again brings the firstborn into the world, He says, “And let all the angels of God worship Him.”  Hebrews 1:6  NASB He says – If you had any doubt about the authority of the Tanakh for the writers of the New Testament, the author of Hebrews should set aside your concern.  Notice…

  • Second Story

    In the beginning Genesis 1:1 In The Beginning – The Tanakh opens with a single word, bere’shiyt, a compound of the preposition be and re’shiyt, a noun that means “the first, the chief, the best.” The rabbis noted a curious thing about bere’shiyt.  It begins with a bet, the second letter of the Hebrew alphabet. …