Late Second Temple and New Testament era debates about divorce often focused on the seemingly strange law discussing divorce in…
Read part 1, on the ethical purposes of Sabbath. The Sabbath was originally instituted as a sign and a condensed…
As a child, I enjoyed books with “exploded” views of great machines, within which all the component parts of some…
This article was originally published by the Theopolis Institute on April 21, 2022. This slightly modified version has been republished…
How does God use law to reason with Israel, and why can’t individuals be ethical all on their own? This is the final part of this series.
Besides the uniqueness of Hebrew law, we must remain aware of our own legal assumptions and the narratized form of biblical law.
How do we know what is legal and what is not today? For example, how do we personally know that…