On this subject, the Document says two things. First it declares that “the Jewish reading of the Bible is a possible one, in continuity with the Jewish Scriptures of the Second Temple period ...

The council controlled the issues, concerns and affairs of the Jewish people in Palestine. However, they could not sentence someone to death - only the Romans had the power to do that. Jesus was ...

Mark Hamilton is currently writing a PhD dissertation ... Sinai and Zion: An Entry into the Jewish Bible. (San Francisco: HarperSan Francisco, 1985). Noth, Martin. A History of Pentateuchal ...

He explains that keeping Shabbat holy is one of the Ten Commandments and part of the Jewish agreement with God ... According to the Bible, what did God do on the 7th day? 2.

Every Christmas, a relatively small town in the Palestinian West Bank comes center stage: Bethlehem. Jesus, according to some biblical sources, was born in this town some two millennia ago. Yet the ...

5 1 Some time later, Jesus went up to Jerusalem for one of the Jewish festivals. 2 Now there is in Jerusalem near the Sheep Gate a pool, which in Aramaic is called Bethesda [1] and which is surrounded ...