Hello fine blog readers, hope you are enjoying your Super weekend.
Here’s this week’s interesting reads from the Messianic blogosphere.
- Framing the Messianic Movement – Ovadia argues that there ought to be a distinct “Messianic Judaism” apart from other branches of the Messianic movement. Check out the comments, where Messianic music, Messianic dance, and the existing Messianic culture come under attack by some who consider them too Christian, too evangelical, and not Jewish enough.
- The Unfamiliar Face of Jesus – This one’s a few months old, but it’s new to me.
Is this Jesus?
And is this Paul?
- In Defense of Religion – Rabbi Russ Resnik writes how it’s OK in today’s culture to talk about spirituality, but ugly-ugly to talk about religion. How do you feel about a Jesus who “plays fast and loose with the legalism of Sabbath keeping…subverts the whole religious system. . . [and is] antireligious”?
- Introducing Myself – Yeze, author of the popular Rosh Pina Project blog, reveals himself to the world: a 3rd generation Jewish follower of Yeshua, Joseph Weissman.
- Anglican Vicar Uses Police to Silence Messianic Blogger –
YezeJoseph Weissman from the Rosh Pina Project wakes up to find the British police knocking on his door. His crime? Exposing an anti-Zionist Anglican vicar’s associations with Holocaust-deniers.
- Christian Feminism, Second Temple Judaism and Messianic Jewish Femininity – What role do women have in the Messianic movement? Joseph Weissman explores the question in a short article.
- History vs. Theology – How much history does your theology require? Does history influence your theology? Is Genesis 1 historical? Did you know some prominent rabbis, including the Rambam, considered the book of Job to be fictional? Do you accept the Bible as true because the community does, or because you trust in God’s guiding hand?
Enjoy your weekend!