New Basic Book for Jewish Roots Studies

"Sitting at the Feet of Rabbi Jesus" has just appeared, and I cannot recommend it highly enough. Please read this book, and then tell your friends about it. Spangler and Tverberg's book is the best entry-level introduction to the subject of "Jewish Roots" that has been written. By the way, Dr. Tverberg was co-editor (with Bruce Okkema) of my "New Light on the Difficult Words of Jesus."

Our Knowledge of Greek: An Embarrassment to the Profession!

We New Testament scholars and Greek professors are often embarrassed by our level of Greek fluency, even after, as in my case, 35 years of studying this ancient biblical language. A lack of true fluency in Greek, active knowledge of the language as opposed to passive, is the scourge of our professions. Finding ourselves in this situation, our disappointment is real, but it is kept hidden from the general public.

What's Happening to the Holy Tongue?

Day by day, Modern Hebrew is enriched by the vocabulary of many languages, but particularly by English, the world's "international language." Hebrew picks up hundreds of English words each year. Such borrowings from English, written in Hebrew letters, feel Hebrew to most Israelis. Usually, Hebrew speakers are not aware that such loan words did not originate in Hebrew.

JerusalemPerspective.com Can Help You Find Answers!

You are studying your Bible and you read Jesus' words in Matthew 6:22-23, "The light of the body is the eye: if therefore thine eye be single, thy whole body shall be full of light. But if thine eye be evil, thy whole body shall be full of darkness" (KJV). You scratch your head wondering what Jesus meant by "single eye" and "evil eye." JerusalemPerspective.com can help you find the answer.

Why Learn to Speak a Dead Language?

You might inquire, “Now that you’re a pensioner, what, for Heaven’s sake, do you do with all your spare time?” Well, other than playing with my four grandsons, ages 7, 5 and 3 (twins), I don’t have much to do. ☺