Reconstructionist Judaism

During the Plague, most of Europe was Christian, so Jews were looked at with high levels of suspicion and were the easiest scapegoats for the Plague, being religious outcasts. There was a strong belief among the elites in the European society that the Jews wanted to destroy Christendom. Many Christians viewed the Jews as the Antichrist and irresponsible priests spread rumors that the Jews kidnapped and tortured Christian children. The Jews were also represented as the demon’s attendant on Satan…

A Critical Review of Jeffrey Walton “The Politics of Biblical Interpretation: A ‘Criticism of Criticism ’” in Newblackfriars vol.91, 1035, September 2010. Introduction Responding to the call for “Kritik der Kritik” of Ratzinger, Jeffrey explains the historical relationship between biblical criticism and politics. The study reveals that the first one can be seen in medieval Islamic world, not in Christendom surprisingly, and he introduces subsequent biblical criticisms in secular world,…

Hypothesis of Julius Wellhausen The documentary hypothesis ( Wellhausen hypothesis ) believes that the Torah or the five books of Moses was derived from originally independent, parallel and complete narrative, where it was combined into the current for by a number of editors. In an attempt to reconcile in the 18th and 19th century biblical scholars using sources eventually arrived at the theory that the Torah was composed together from several, each…

Zionism can be defined as a Jewish movement of the 19th century that is all about the common desire to maintain a nation for the Jewish people as prophesized in a vision from God to Isaiah. In this vision, God promises to create not only a new heaven and earth, but they believe God will create a new Jerusalem for the Jewish people. This new Jerusalem is known as Israel and before that it was known as Palestine. Zionism was originally founded on a secular basis due to the anti-Semitism many Jews…

Moses is one of the most well known individuals in the Bible. Moses was the person whom God used to lead His people out of slavery, and also to deliver His Law to Israel. Moses had a relationship with God that was unlike any during his lifetime. As a result of being chosen by God to lead the great nation of Israel, Moses provides many good principles of leadership to learn from. Spheres of Influence One thing that is essential in being a leader in ministry is a clear call from God. In the…

Introduction In mid-17th century, the Ottoman Empire witnessed the formation of one of the most peculiar communities in its history: the Dönme – meaning ‘converts’ in Turkish. The Dönme were a group of crypto-Sabbatians, in other words hidden followers of a messianic movement established around Jewish rabbi Sabbatai Tsevi. Strongly disapproving of Sabbatai’s apostate messianic claims and his increasing number of followers, Sultan Mehmed IV and his Grand Vizier Köprülü Ahmed Paşa forced Sabbatai…

Deuteronomy, whose main author is Moses, comes from the derivative of two Greek words, deuteros, meaning "second", and nomos, "law." This book, like other normative texts collected in the Pentateuch, highlights what God requires of his chosen people, and he does so by specifying the command that Jesus called "principal": "You shall love the Lord, your God, with all your heart, with all your soul and with all your strength" (Mk 12.30) These words are the spinal cord of the entire discourse, which…

Eli, so have explained to me how you blame God for the holocaust you don’t understand why we have to go through so much torture. After all we are Gods chosen people. But the thing is no one understands God. We can’t blame God for anything that is going on in our lives. We just have to pray that in his best interest that good will come out of this evil. You know how long ago Moses was a slave and so were his people. Those people were going through torture just like us. They had to starve, work,…

There are three major points within the chapter of Exodus 23, such a repeat of the ten commanents, and as well as a more in depth explanation. The other nations are a wicked people, and Yahua starts by telling the isrealittes not be like them. Bribes are a way to cloud the judgement of a person in athority , and to create of false report. Being a fake witness, and creating your own story to enjoy a person's pain and suffering. Killing a person in cold blood is something that yah considers a…

I have decided to analyses his chapter “Acts of God” in relations to ethos, pathos and logos. Reece’s purpose of this chapter is to show the hardships of the people affected directly by mountain top removal, as well as how the companies that fund this method react and undermine their arguments to receive justice. It also explains how strong religious beliefs help drive the community to seek a change, or an impedance. However, this change is not in this life time. They practice acceptance and…