This dynamic forms the backdrop of today's gospel reading, which centres on a Roman centurion in Capernaum. The centurion acknowledges the authority of his own word; when he instructs a soldier to "Go ...
Jews looked down on the Gentiles (pagans) as idolaters and licentious people. In the words of Paul, idolaters exchanged the glory of the immortal God for the likeness of an image of mortal man or of ...
It is the deep, reverberating question at the heart of Toldot. Why did Rebecca tell Jacob to deceive Isaac and take Esau’s blessing? Her instruction is brisk and peremptory:“Now, my son, lis ...