Monthly Archives: July 2008

Apocalyptic was a literature of protest. Between about 150 BC and 100 AD a style of prophecy developed which remained with us ever after – a way of talking about one’s oppressor without talking about them, thus making sedition hard … Continue reading →

Can God be defended from the charge of the atheists that “he” is evil and stupid? That’s the challenge that the plight of Job, the afflicted righteous man, posed to faithful scribes some millennia ago. Not long after the later … Continue reading →

George Williams, a great evolutionary biologist, made a point about God in several of his books which deserves exploration. He had no time for arguing over the existence or otherwise of God, merely defining “God” as the creative Something which … Continue reading →

For a long time the idea of a “Suffering Messiah” as a specific individual was assumed to be a purely Christian invention and totally unprecedented in Judaism. However, ever since the Dead Sea Scrolls were brought into the light in … Continue reading →