Fallen Priesthood: Hanukkah Theme #1
What lessons do Christians and Messianic Jews need to learn from Hanukkah? The story of Simon the Just, Jason, and Menelaus has a message for us. History is not only remembered in Judaism, but celebrated in ritual, song, prayer, and…
A Little Sadducee Love at YIC
“Sadducean Scribblings #2″ is worth a read. Then read Matthew 22:23-33.
Apocalypses and the Apocalypse
I’m reading and rereading and teaching the book of Revelation, also known as the Apocalypse. It is easy to forget that this mysterious book, marking the end of the New Testament both in print and in chronology, fit right into…
Jewish Apocalyptic Literature: A Survey
I’m studying and teaching about Revelation at the congregation. And before you can understand something, it is good to know what it is. Revelation is an apocalypse, a kind of Jewish writing found in the Second Temple period and a…
McKnight's A LIGHT AMONG THE GENTILES, Pt. 1
As part of my ongoing research for the book, Messiah, I am reading many portraits of Jesus by academic writers. If you didn’t already, see the post below, “Musings on Some Academic Portraits of Jesus” I’m working my way through…
Esther and Apocryphal Esther
Purim is coming on March 21 this year, which is also the Christian Good Friday. Purim (POOHR-im) means lots as in the ancient custom of casting lots (almost like dice) either as a game or to divine the future. It…
Apocryphal Reading List
This is just a quick list of some past posts from “Messianic Musings” about the Apocrypha. I will be posting more soon about the Wisdom of Solomon. These books are a fascinating way to understand developing Jewish thought leading up…
Apocryphal Wisdom
I remember when I was studying biblical literature as an undergraduate in Chicago. The professor at my Protestant, dispensationalist school said that the books of the Apocrypha were good for reading but not suitable to belong in the canon of…
Tobit and the Jewishness of the New Testament
I am developing a series of articles here on Messianic Musings about the writings of Second Temple Judaism that we call the Apocrypha and the Pseudepigrapha. These writings, which date from after the time of the Hebrew Bible and until…
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Yeshua as Daniel’s Son of Man
I’m writing the last few chapters of Yeshua Our Atonement. The main thrust of the book is finished. I’ve examined Leviticus and Numbers, the theology of purification and sacrifice and the Presence. I’ve explained the essence of Hebrews and its…