the cathedral door

a rhetorical/historical critical blog dealing with matters concerning developing Christianity/proto Rabbinic Judaism including text translation and interpretation, and historic analysis of the ancient near east and Rome.

Sunday, June 28, 2015

Proto-Christians, would-be Jews, ultra-observant Jews or something else?

Christian scholarship posits that there was a group of proto-Christians who called themselves "θεοσεβιοι" God-fearers. Accordin...

The transmission and reinterpretation of The Name

It was not the case that the consonants of the Name were interspersed with the vowels for "Adonay." Because it is not possible t...

God is a complex verb

It makes a good title. Yet it is true: the unpronounceable name of god is not only one verb, it is three tenses of one verb conflated int...

Tamar really was more righteous than Judah

The story of Judah and Tamar is one that causes cringing and apologies: we know this is a Patriarch/Matriarch narrative, but how do we co...

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