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The celebrated first Chief Rabbi of pre-state Israel, Rav Avraham Yitzchak HaCohen Kook (1865-1935) is recognized as being among the most important Jewish thinkers of all time. His writings reflect ...

Wilson (How Jesus Became Christian), professor emeritus of religious studies at York University, Toronto, explores the meaning of messiahship in this entertaining and challenging study. Wilson starts ...

The systematic rendering of יסר by παιδεύω and παιδεία in the Septuagint allowed a merging of the divine correction as found in Deut 8:5 or Prov 3:12 with the classical meaning of παιδεία, "education" ...

We should read it not as an assortment of poems and songs but as a single rhapsody on God’s covenant promises. Late in the fourth century, a man named Palladius of Galatia left his home (somewhere in ...