The Jewish Studies Blog

There are tools that are needed to mine the depths of the biblical texts. There are also many perspectives that enrich our study, like the perspective of first century Judaism. This site is one of those rare resources that provides both tools and perspective for the serious student of Scripture.

– Dr. Allen Mawhinney, A Retired Academic Dean, Reformed Theological Seminary

Key Number Four: Blessing The Bread

    Last time we saw that after the two disciples “constrained” Yeshua, “He went in to stay with them”. Then we read: Luke 24:30 Now it came to pass, as He…

Key Number Three: As Though …

And they drew nigh unto the village, whither they went: and he made as though he would have gone further[1]. First of all, what an amazing sentence we find here! What a…

Key Number Two: To Make The Latent Visible

  Luke 24:27 And beginning at Moses and all the Prophets, He expounded to them in all the Scriptures the things concerning Himself. So, Yeshua[1] took them through the Scriptures and explained…

The Keys Of The Transitional Chapter: Key Number One

Somebody wrote in the comments to my last post: “We await with expectation the ‘key’”.  Well, not just one key – but the set of keys to the whole story of the…

Messiah Hidden And Revealed In Luke-acts (2)

  We have already seen that in Luke’s Gospel Jesus continuously forbids his countrymen to speak of his messianic status and his miracles. On the other hand, in the book of Acts,…

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