Jehovah and PIPI
For most of its existence Christianity has struggled with its Hebraic and Jewish heritage. To complicate matters, Hebraicists have always stood out as a rare breed in the Christian fold. The shortage...
View ArticleWritten, Inspired and Profitable
The Bible provides minimal help for anyone trying to write a description of it for inclusion in a Statement of Faith. As a result, such descriptions typically claim more than the Bible discloses about...
View ArticleA Different Way to Reckon a Day
In Luke 24:7 two men in dazzling apparel reminded the women that “the Son of man must be delivered into the hands of sinful men, and be crucified, and on the third day rise.” To people living in Europe...
View ArticleTreasures in Heaven
What is the relationship between the preaching of Jonah and putting a lamp on a lampstand? The prophet Jonah in classical Jewish thought calls to mind repentance. In Rabbinic literature we read that...
View ArticleMark 7:19: Did Jesus Make “Unclean” Food “Clean”?
One should not be too quick to throw out large portions of the Torah because of a four-word parenthetical comment by Mark at the end of a long halachic discussion.
View ArticleWhy Learn to Speak a Dead Language?
Why would anyone in his or her right mind want to speak a "dead" language, a language that no one speaks? The answer: Because only by speaking a language does one internalize it, and it was high time,...
View ArticleJesus and the Enigmatic “Green Tree”
Jesus made bold messianic claims when he spoke. To thoroughly understand these claims, however, we must get into a time machine and travel back in time to a completely different culture, the Jewish...
View ArticleCataloging the Gospels’ Hebraisms: Part Two (Luke 9:51-56)
Rather than looking at isolated words or expressions that appear to be Hebraisms, or, examining a category, or type, of Hebraism, let’s take a complete story from the life of Jesus: Luke 9:51-56, a...
View ArticleCataloging the Gospels’ Hebraisms: Part Three (Impersonal “They”)
Awareness of even the simplest Hebrew grammatical structure can bring to life a vague, or difficult-to-understand, saying of Jesus. Since potential Hebrew idioms are so dense in the Greek texts of...
View ArticleCataloging the Gospels’ Hebraisms: Part Four (Parallelism)
Doubling, or repeating, is a characteristic feature of Hebrew. Hebrew loves to say things twice (or more!) by adding equivalents. Words, phrases, sentences, and even stories, are doubled (or tripled).
View ArticleCataloging the Gospels’ Hebraisms: Part Five (Parallelism)
Parallelism is a central feature of Hebrew poetry. It permeates the words of biblical poet and prophet. The frequency with which parallelism occurs in the utterances of Jesus is surprising, and leads...
View ArticleCataloging the Gospels’ Hebraisms: Part Six (Parallelism)
Parallelism is a beautiful and central feature of Hebrew poetry. Scholars have identified three types of Hebrew parallelism. In the previous article of this series we discussed the first of these...
View Article“Verily” or “Amen”—What Did Jesus Say?
Every reader of the Gospels knows the phrase, "Verily, I say unto you," or "Verily, verily, I say unto you." According to the standard English translations of the Old and New Testaments, it seems that...
View ArticleLOY Excursus: Greek Transliterations of Hebrew, Aramaic and Hebrew/Aramaic...
One of the clues that the Synoptic Gospels descended from a Hebrew Life of Yeshua is the number of foreign words that were transliterated into Greek from either Hebrew or Aramaic (it is often...
View ArticleThe Textus Receptus, or “Majority Text,” Theory
Have you read a book called New Age Bible Versions by Gail Riplinger?
View ArticleVideo Clip: Randall Buth on “A Hebraic Approach to the Resurrection of Jesus”
In this video clip, Randall Buth discusses the Hebrew background to the resurrection narratives in the Synoptic Gospels.
View ArticleThe Major Importance of the “Minor” Agreements
In this article, Dr. Robert Lindsey discusses the importance of the so-called "minor agreements" of Luke and Matthew against Mark for properly understanding the interrelationship of the Synoptic...
View ArticleVideo Clip: David N. Bivin on “The Value of Translating Matthew, Mark and...
In this video Jerusalem Perspective's editor-in-chief, David Bivin, demonstrates how translating Jesus' sayings into Hebrew can provide clearer insight into Jesus' message.
View ArticleThe Lindseys of Israel
This documentary, which was filmed in 1975, offers a rare glimpse into the life and work of Dr. Robert L. Lindsey.
View ArticleThe Significance of Jesus’ Words “Not One Jot or One Tittle Will Pass from...
"Jot" and "tittle" are not everyday words in English. What do they mean and how should Jesus' words in Matthew 5:18 be understood? Jerusalem Perspective's editor-in-chief, David Bivin, tackles these...
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