Daily Archives: October 4, 2011

Tom’s Jesus

Last night, I read Chapter 43 of Stephen King’s The Stand: The Complete and Uncut Edition.  In this chapter, Nick Andros meets Tom Cullen, a developmentally-delayed man. On page 404, we read the following: “…and [Nick] had heard about how … Continue reading

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Intellectually Viable

I’m continuing my way through Louis Feldman’s Jew and Gentile in the Ancient World: I have written about the prohibition in the Babylonian Talmud (Chagigah 13a; Sanhedrin 59a) on teaching Torah to Gentiles.  Feldman states that Josephus was aware of … Continue reading

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