Finnish scholar Joanna Töyräänvuori has convincingly demonstrated that Leviticus 18,22, a passage that is commonly, not to say „notoriously“, used to underpin the Bible’s alleged verdict against homosexuality, actually reads: „You shall not lie with a male in the bed … Weiterlesen →
It is not totally correct to claim (which can often be heard) that antiquity’s crucifixion would have been an exclusively Roman way of punishment. According to famous 1st-century-CE Jewish-Roman historian Josephus Flavius („Jewish Antiquities”, 13,14,2), Jewish king Alexander Jannaeus (103-76 … Weiterlesen →
In the Pre-Christian Bible, there is a number of occasions when „buildings“ are described. I assume that in all of these cases the deeper meaning has something to do with the construction of a temple. But which temple, critically-historically and … Weiterlesen →
Das neunte Kapitel des Lukasevangeliums beginnt mit folgendem Gleichnis, das Jesus erzählt: „Ein reicher Mann hatte einen Verwalter. Diesen beschuldigte man bei ihm, er verschleudere sein Vermögen. Darauf ließ er ihn rufen und sagte zu ihm: Was höre ich über … Weiterlesen →
Wenn wir, wie jedes Jahr, die Krippen herausholen und schauen, ob noch alle Arme und Hufe an allen Figuren dran sind, wird mir immer sehr deutlich, dass die mit dem niedrigsten gesellschaftlichen Status, die Hirten und ihre Tiere, für die … Weiterlesen →
(by Joachim Elschner-Sedivy, Lic.Theol., Munich, Germany, October 16, 2020) As to the topic of human nutrition, Torah, the Jewish law (the „Pentateuch“ or „Five Books of Moses“), is characterized by three steps of argumentation. First step: In Genesis 1,29, humans … Weiterlesen →
All of us „church kids“ remember those most enigmatic words of Jesus from the Gospel of John’s story about the Wedding at Cana, and our early-starting insurmountable question: What do they mean? „On the third day there was a wedding … Weiterlesen →