Category Archives: Jewish History/Culture

Written in the Dirt

Written in the Dirt
And as they continued to ask Him, He stood up and said to them, “Let him who is without sin among you be the first to throw a stone at her.”  And once more He bent down and wrote on the ground. John 8:7-8 Jesus stooped down and wrote in the dust. What was it that He wrote…
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Jesus stooped

Jesus stooped
The scribes and the Pharisees brought a woman who had been caught in adultery, and placing her in the midst they said to him, “Teacher, this woman has been caught in the act of adultery.   … Jesus stooped down and wrote with His finger on the ground.  John 8:3-6 Jesus stooped down. The word means to…
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Other Side

Other Side
Rabbinic teaching styles create visual images for abstract ideas to better communicate their thoughts. Think of the Biblical descriptions of people (sheep, goats, white washed walls), God (Father, Rock, Shepherd) and even places (far country, abyss, land of the twelve). Across the Sea of Galilee from Capernaum, where religious Jews were plentiful, was a Greek/Roman…
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Life in Babylon

Life in Babylon
This is what the Lord Almighty, the God of Israel, says to all those I carried into exile from Jerusalem to Babylon: “Build houses and settle down; plant gardens and eat what they produce. Marry and have sons and daughters; find wives for your sons and give your daughters in marriage, so that they too may have sons and…
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