Category: Christianity
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The Haywire Heart
I read this book several years ago while I was still able to maintain the extreme endurance exercise routine of running/cycling that I had engaged in for 40+ years. For this very reason, the book’s subtitle, “How too much exercise can kill you, and what you can do to protect your heart,” had caught my…
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What Many Westerners Don’t Get About The Gaza War
The Blogs Efraim Inbar Efraim Inbar is president of the Jerusalem Institute for Strategy and Security (JISS) and head of the program on Strategy, Diplomacy, and National Security at the Shalem Academic Center. This is a re-posting of a post written for the The Blogs of the internet news site, The Times of Israel, by…
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Franz Julius Delitzsch: 19th Century German Evangelical Theologian and Hebraist
As my studies in Biblical Hebrew progressed from language study, involving grammar, syntax, and linguistic ‘rules of the road’ peculiar to the language, to applying this knowledge practically, I began to study the Psalms exegetically. During the initial stages of studying the Scriptures in Hebrew, in my search for detailed explanatory exegesis of the text,…
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Neurodiversity?
In the News & Racing section of the internet-based publication ESCAPE COLLECTIVE RIDING is LIFE©, Chris Marshall-Bell on May 27, 2024, published an article entitled “Harry Sweeny knows he’s not alone,” in which he introduces Sweeny as “the first active pro [cyclist] to publicize his ASD [Autism Spectrum Disorders] diagnosis [and that he] wants to…
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Conversion of Turkish Peoples Historically to Russian Orthodoxy Serves To Placate Tensions Between Russians and Turks
Russian internet site https://russtrat.ru, which serves as a propaganda organ for the Putin regime, published an article on its ‘analytics’ page addressing the commonly-held misconception that all Turks are Muslims. The Gagauz ethnic Turkic people are cited as a case in point of those who converted to [Russian] Orthodoxy. Also examined are other Turkic peoples…
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Armenia Seeks Rapprochement with Azerbaijan, Agrees to Military Cooperation with Greece, late-February, early March 2024
Armenia, a majority of whose population belongs to the Armenian Apostolic (Orthodox) Church, finds itself the recipient of an unenviable piece of real estate that is squeezed between the two overwhelmingly Muslim nations, Turkey and Azerbaijan. This tension led to the 1915 genocide against the Armenians by the Turks of the Ottoman Empire, and more…
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Psalm 14: “The Fool Has Said In His Heart, ‘There Is No God’.”
1למנצח לדוד For the director of music for David > Disclaimer: I rarely consult commentaries. Only when my translation doesn’t make sense or I just can’t begin to understand the meaning of a verse despite its being correctly translated do I refer to one, that of Delitzsch, whose commentaries are based on his analysis of…
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Psalm 12: Yahwah’s Pure Word Will Prevail Against the Haughty Assuredness of the Wicked
The Psalmist gives hope to the one trusting Yahwah’s Word in the face of the lies, half-truths, and the resulting hypocritical behavior of the wicked. Yet, at the same time, however, he paints a two-fold bleak picture of 1) the disappearance of men of steadfastness and loyalty and 2) the oppression and violence suffered by…
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The Hebrew Radical ‘Sook’ (שך/סך) as It Relates to the Birth of Yeshua (ישוע)
Another Christmas has come and gone. The decorations that adorned our house – the creche in the foyer; stuffed cloth gingerbread men keeping strategically placed Santa Clauses company; colored lights strung along the two sides of the staircase that meet the guests arriving for a progressive dinner-and-carols singalong; similarly-strung lights on the hutch in the…
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Book Review: God Was Not In The Fire – The Search For A Spiritual Judaism by Daniel Gordis
I began studying Biblical Hebrew seriously when the COVID-19 Pandemic forced a hiatus from the daily requirements of work and other mandatory activities. This enabled me to devote more time to other pursuits, one of which was the desire to gain a level of proficiency in biblical Hebrew, the primary language in which the Old…
The Dragon is Slain 