JERUSALEM — A 3-foot-tall tablet with 87 lines of Hebrew that scholars believe dates from the decades just before the birth of Jesus is causing a quiet stir in biblical and archaeological circles, ...
The late scripture scholar Sulpician Fr. Raymond Brown frequently raised eyebrows when he said, “There are no predictions of Jesus, as we know him, anywhere in the Hebrew Scriptures.” I was taught the ...
Through all the dark hours of Israel’s history the promised and longed-for messianic redemption was “the one prop and stay” of the Hebrew community. Various expectations concerning the Messiah of Old ...
The initial statement sounded benign enough: This would be a “Year of Wonders,” said the revered rabbi of Brooklyn. Rabbi Menachem Schneerson didn’t say just what those wonders would be when he made ...
Born and raised a Jew, Jon Lieberman accidentally found Jesus in 1971, at the tail end of the '60s searching generation. The epiphany came after a two-year journey to redemption, in which he ...