Category: Tishrei Journal

Marjorie Hindley The Bruderhof Communities or Hutterian Brethren are a gathering of people from all walks of life committed to a life of Christian brotherhood. It was the search for a radical Christianity that brought together a small group in Germany in 1920, which then in 1930 united with the Church known as Hutterian, a […]

Clifford Denton The Community Rule (or Manual of Discipline) of the Dead Sea Sect begins: “The Master shall teach the saints to live according to the Book of the Community Rule, that they may seek God with a whole heart and soul, and do what is good and right before Him as He commanded by […]

Menahem Benhayim It is only within the past two centuries that Jews who embraced New Testament faith could – or would – begin to struggle to reaffirm the original New Testament view of a Jewish distinctive as valid within the Church. In apostolic times and briefly afterward the Jewish believer in Yeshua, while subject to […]

Louis Goldberg When most Gentile Christians are asked as to the status today of the Mosaic Law or Mosaic Covenant, the usual reply is that this covenant is no longer in force. A number of sources will be cited later on to this effect but generally the response is, based on an understanding of what […]

Tom Hamilton The importance of the Greek Middle voice in our understanding of the New Testament writings has perhaps not yet been fully realised. This is because if languages change, and govern our ability to think and express thought, then our ability to both express certain linguistic aspects of New Testament Greek in up-to-date English, […]

Arye Powlison “The Word of G-d is living and active, and sharper than any two-edged sword. ” (Heb 4:12) There is a host of people in the Christian world who have focused on the Scriptures as though they were the source of their life. “In them you think you have eternal life.” (John 5:39). Eternal […]

Neil Owen Foreword Clifford Denton This issue of the journal is linked with the previous one, which explored the role of Rabbinic Judaism in our study of the roots of the Christian Faith. Whatever value Rabbinic Judaism may have we must be careful not to undermine the Bible. There is great value in extra-biblical studies […]

Clifford Denton, Tony Pearce, Christopher Barder, & Moshe Elijah Introduction Clifford Denton “Brethren, my hearts desire and prayer to God for Israel is that they may be saved. For I bear them witness that they have a zeal for God, but not according to knowledge.” (Romans 10:1-2) In this edition of Tishrei, we have encouraged […]

Tom Hamilton I looked for the word high and low in the Old Testament, but could find it nowhere. It was only when I turned to other Jewish writings that I found The word mentioned. The word shekinah means “abiding”. The fact that, down throughout the ages, the Jews have given it a special name, […]

Arye Powlison There are several areas of rabbinic teaching which Yeshua rejected out of hand as unacceptable. Usually, the reason was that they contradicted fundamental logic based on The Scriptures, or even that they contradicted The Scriptures directly. However neither Yeshua nor His disciples rejected rabbinic teaching with the argument that the rabbis lacked the […]