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Would Jesus have been familiar with the Siddur?
I've been reading a lot from Messianic Jewish sources. I'm really interested in the Siddur, but I can't find any sources which can tell me if the prayers and rituals in the Siddur were practiced in ...
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How did the disciples' view of the messiah evolve?
Numerous miracles and theophanies in the New Testament make clear the Christ was perceived to be divine. A range of epithets were used across the books, such as "Son of the Living God" ...
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Did the Jews in Our Lord’s time or earlier believe in a form of purgatory?
Purgatory is most often dismissed as being nothing more than a Roman Catholic belief, but does Judaism have a form of purgatory? (ie a place where our remaining sins are purged) or to quote from the ...
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How do believers in post-mortal consciousness respond to objections by the Jewish Encyclopedia article on the immortality of the soul?
I'm specifically referring to this article: https://www.jewishencyclopedia.com/articles/8092-immortality-of-the-soul
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IMMORTALITY OF THE SOUL (late Hebrew, "hasharat ha-nefesh"...
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Does the concept of Godhead (one God, but multiple persons) predate Christianity? Can we find evidence of this concept in Judaism before 0 A.D.?
Was the concept of Godhead (one God, but multiple persons) known by the Jews prior to the advent of Christianity? Were there Jews that held a Binitarian, Trinitarian or similar "Godhead" ...
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What were the views of the Church Fathers on Jews and Judaism during the Patristic Era?
I am currently learning about the holocaust in History class right now. It was mentioned that during the Middle Ages, some Christians were anti-semitic. I wondered how the Early Church (Pre-Schism) ...
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What is the basis for believing that 40 lashes would be deadly (especially in Roman law or jurisprudence)?
I have commonly heard that 40 lashes were thought to be deadly and thus 39 were issued. It seems as though neither 40 nor 39 lashes had anything to do with the deadliness of the punishment in Jewish ...
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Essenes' Beliefs in Comparison to Christianity
Does anyone know (with sources) what the Essenes taught and believed in relation to what Christ taught? Sources are much appreciated.
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Were Jews in Jesus' day binitarian?
Is it true that Jews during Jesus' lifetime were binitarian, that is believing that God was one being in two persons similar to how Christians have historically believed and taught that God is ...
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Was Paul's Relationship with Jewish Leadership Close Enough to Act as Their Agent?
After reading this question on judaism.SE I wanted to pose a version of it here. (You know, it's facinating to see how Judaism views us....)
Paul's letter to the Hebrews could be described (and ...
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Does Jesus' public reading of the Scriptures imply that he had any authority within the religious community?
In Luke 4:17, Jesus reads from the Scriptures during a religious meeting. The passage reads,
Luke 4:16-21 (NIV) He went to Nazareth, where he had been brought up, and on the Sabbath day he went ...
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Could a Christian remain in the sect of the Pharisees?
Acts 15:5 reads:
But some from the religious party of the Pharisees who had believed
stood up and said, “It is necessary to circumcise the Gentiles and to
order them to observe the law of Moses....
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Is it true that there is an inscription that says that Yahweh had a wife?
In this video, around 1:08:40, Amihai Mazar, of the Hebrew University of Jerusalem, says:
The name "Yahweh", as the name of an Israelite God, [...] appears for the first time in the inscriptions of ...
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Who were the "scribes" whom Jesus often disputes against in the canonical gospels?
And when Jesus finished these sayings, the crowds were astonished at
his teaching, for he was teaching them as one who had authority, and
not as their scribes. (Matthew 7:28-29 ESV)
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What did Jesus do regarding the Jews believing that some diseases were sometimes due to sin?
In relation to these two questions:
What evidence is there that the Jews thought leprosy was due to sin?
What does it mean to say that mental illness is a modern-day leprosy?
Obviously, Jesus didn'...
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Did Paul/Saul teach Christianity with Jewish traditions to Gentiles like what we see in Messianic Judaism today?
As the question clearly describes.
Did Paul/Saul, during his era, teach Christianity with Jewish traditions to Gentiles like what we see in Messianic Judaism today?
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Is there evidence that Isaiah 53 was viewed as a Messianic prophecy within Judaism, or is it an exclusively Christian interpretation?
The modern Jewish interpretation of the so-called suffering servant song of Isaiah 52:13-53:12 is that it is a prophecy referring to the nation of Israel, not the Messiah. As such, it is sometimes ...
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What evidence is there that the Jews thought leprosy was due to sin?
Some Jews seemed to think that lepersy was a punishment for sin,
rather than a sin itself.
This is most probably going to sound like a stupid question either because there is a specific verse or ...
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At what point did Judaism and Christianity diverge?
At what point did Judaism and Christianity diverge? Christianity and Judaism share the Old Testament (The Hebrew Bible), so it should be safe to assume they are the same people at least during the Old ...
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Persecution of Jewish people by Christians in Middle Ages?
I want to apologize ahead if my questions sound disrespectful to anybody. This isn't my intent. I grew up in East Asia which has very few Christians, but I have been very interested in the history of ...
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Was baptism practiced before Christ?
A simple word search for "baptism" in the Old Testament turns up no matches. However by the time John the Baptist shows up on the scene and starts dunking people and calling it "for forgiveness of ...
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What was the difference between the Pharisees and Sadducees?
Jesus often encountered "Pharisees" and "Sadducees". For example,
34 Hearing that Jesus had silenced the Sadducees, the Pharisees got together. 35 One of them, an expert in the law, tested him ...
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