The Narrow Path Ministries

Hi, J - jriccitelli wrote: ...I wrote the ‘Oral traditions’ were 'later' written down. The Mishnah and the talmuds did not write down " the 'Oral traditions' {emphasis added} ." At best, they wrote down some traditions from the time of Jesus. But most mishnaic and talmudic material is attributed to ...

RE: Jeremiah 31 and its “new covenant.” Jeremiah 31:31-34, ESV 31 “Behold, the days are coming, declares the LORD, when I will make a new covenant with the house of Israel and the house of Judah, 32 not like the covenant that I made with their fathers on the day when I took them by the hand to bring...

jriccitelli wrote: I do not see anything in this article that notes that the Jews had a strong Oral Tradition of laws they ‘assumed’ were given by Moses at Sinai. This is what Jesus refereed to as the teachings of men (including the Rabbinic traditions of the time). This is what the Jews later put ...

kaufmannphillips wrote: If you don't know Hebrew or Aramaic or Greek, you're not studying the bible - you're studying an interpretation of the bible. Remarkable how many people will insist that the bible is the word of G-d, and an authoritative standard for their belief and behavior - yet won't con...

:arrow: The "sisters" bit represents the relation between the Northern and Southern kingdoms (Israel and Judah). This aspect of the metaphor is significant. Both are accorded a comparable status; the base relation is not freewoman-and-maidservant, or native-and-foreigner. And the relation is familia...

:arrow: The issue of the divorce legislation is a complex one. In the first place, the legislation in Deuteronomy 24 does not command or sanction divorce or remarriage. In the Hebrew text, it is a matter of case law: when a man divorces, etc . (= the case), then the man may not take her back (= the ...

Michelle wrote: I'm a little at a loss to understand how having the 10 Commandments on the wall would curtail violence because you didn't elaborate. Obviously they wouldn't be some sort of protective talisman, nor would they be proof to God that we take Him seriously. The shooting in the Amish scho...

JMTC wrote: I am one who would want to examine both written and oral tradition as well as sources outside of the group she lived with. In parallel, then, what " sources outside of the group ... lived with " would you examine for making conclusions about Jesus? JMTC wrote: I've never considered Morm...

Thanks, TK.

I would be interested in the source(s) behind this portrayal. Through the interwebs, I have found one writer who refers back to Edersheim's The Life And Times Of Jesus The Messiah {2.6; pub. 1883/90} , which in turn references a number of rabbinic texts { Mishnah Sheqalim 7.4 ; Mishnah Bava Qamma 7....