In these posts regarding Talmudic discussions of messianic proportions, I wanted to provide an impression, a taste for this type of...

Through the next passages there are three big questions or dilemmas that are rightfully brought to the fore: One question is, why do we...

What is interesting for us as readers of messianism developing, is to observe how the ideas and themes unfold and grow from the Bible...

We previously got a taste of Talmud writing style and its dealings with messianic ideas. It is associative inconsistent writing. Items...

The Talmud and parallel rabbinical literature, include all sorts of passages engaging directly with messianic ideas and messianic texts....

We are tracing messianic footseps in early rabbinic literature. We are curious how the messianic ideas developed and evolved. We found...

If you have lasted this long, and are familiar with Bar Kochva, you are surely biting your tongue saying, what about Bar Kochva? He was...

Any word on messianism in the early rabbinic literature? Here is where it gets interesting. Let’s start with the translations. As...

This next chapter in the evolution of messianism is an exciting one. We will enter the world of rabbinic literature, in lieu of what we...

We will look finally at the trial before the high priests and the crucifixion itself. In these famous parts of the Jesus narrative, we...

Chapter 14: The drama of the narrative of Jesus in the Gospel peaks at his death. All the previous content has led to this point, from...

As Jesus approached Jerusalem, he is associated by others as Son of David, and then he associates himself in effect by riding on the colt...

We have a somewhat complicated and sensitive aspect to now introduce. This is a matter of self-consciousness, in the context of...

So far Jesus has been in the Galilee. His disciples and a following make their way through the Jordan valley en route to Jerusalem, and...

So the special man who comes from Nazareth is of age and he has been baptized and somehow associated with or recognized by the famous...

I want you to think of the Gospels differently. Instead of an early candidate of an existing clear concept of ‘Messiah’, whether false or...

My background is in Evangelical Christianity and traditional Judaism. I spent a good few years at the Hebrew University of Jerusalem...

Speaking of this era and literature means after the biblical era, post-biblical literature , through the 1st century AD. Writings from...

Before we cross the threshold of the Hebrew Bible into the New Testament and 2nd Temple Literature category, we complete the triple...

As the biblical narrator tells what follows the story of David, the kings and wars of Israel, through the Assyrian assault, the...