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Anti-Semitism was protean, constantly mutating into new forms and providing an object for new fears. It could not be defeated by rational argument because it had no rational basis.
Jonathan Sacks • A Letter in the Scroll: Understanding Our Jewish Identity and Exploring the Legacy of the World's Oldest Religion
Rediscovering Jesus: An Introduction to Biblical, Religious and Cultural Perspectives on Christ
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The testimony of the Dead Sea Scrolls discovered at Qumran.
Joseph McRae Mellichamp • Against the Flow Study Guide: Discussing and Applying the Message of Daniel Today
Austrian Jewish composer Gustav Mahler. Mahler,
Dara Horn • People Love Dead Jews: Reports from a Haunted Present
New Testament scholar Craig Evans says:
R. C. Sproul • Knowing Scripture
My point is that the genre itself is the problem. As long as Christian scholars insist that they are simply “describing” the theology that is really “in” the text itself, and they arrive at their conclusions using historical criticism, as long as the “meaning” they claim to “find” in the text is supposed to be also what the ancient author “intended
... See moreDale B. Martin • Biblical Truths: The Meaning of Scripture in the Twenty-first Century
Rabbi Greenberg explained that we lost 30 percent of the Jewish people during the war, but more than 80 percent of the scholars, mystics, and teachers who could pass on ancient traditions.
Rodger Kamenetz • The Jew in the Lotus
Jews began to see themselves not as the people loved by God but rather as the people hated by gentiles.