Comments on: Reserve Reading – Between the Testaments

By: Liv

Liv — Wed, 13 Jan 2010 14:35:47 +0000

I know that the Roman’s persecuted the Jews but why did the Jews always try to rebel. Why did they not just try to live peacefully.. like, cohesively? Why would people who serve God try to cause disruptions?

By: MEETCH

MEETCH — Wed, 13 Jan 2010 14:33:28 +0000

It says that ceremonial worship was all but impossible, was that because the temple was gone?

By: THE HULK

THE HULK — Wed, 13 Jan 2010 14:31:00 +0000

Who wrote the Dead Sea Scrolls? and what language were they in? also were there many writers or just one? AND do you think the other parts of the Scrolls that werent found are still somewhere out in the world waiting to be found and analyzed by scientists?

By: VBinkerd

VBinkerd — Wed, 13 Jan 2010 14:30:13 +0000

Page 5: It says that both the ceremonial pillar and the moral-ethical pillar were retained by the Jewish people but they slowly gravitated towards moral-ethical and away from ceremonial pillar. What’s that all about?

By: Jon Neumeister

Jon Neumeister — Wed, 13 Jan 2010 14:03:45 +0000

Same as anna’s…that makes no sense to me…if the name itself means false title or false inscription then how can we at all take anything to be true in it?? that just makes no sense to me…

By: Posey

Posey — Wed, 13 Jan 2010 13:33:54 +0000

How great was the control of the Roman rule over the composition of the Sanhedrin? Were the actions of the Sanhedrin obviously influenced by their Roman overseers?

By: Ben Jehl

Ben Jehl — Wed, 13 Jan 2010 03:50:12 +0000

It talks about on page 3 how Jewish leaders asked Rome to come to them to restore order. However, it says the Romans ended up invading their temple and destroying the Jewish state. I just always kinda thought that the Jews and Romans never got along so maybe you could just explain why the Jewish leaders did this.

By: AGuthrie

AGuthrie — Wed, 13 Jan 2010 03:18:58 +0000

It says that “pseudepigrapha” means “false title” or “false inscription,” referring to the name of the books. If the name itself is false, then what parts of the book are true that we should look at?

By: JD

JD — Wed, 13 Jan 2010 03:17:41 +0000

What are Targums? I know it says they’re “Aramic translations and paraphrases of the Bible”, but what specifically are they and why are they important to us a Christians?