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Righteousness and Justice of Our King 3 Part Series – Updated
Article on Righteousness and Justice from the Anchor Bible Dictionary: RIGHTEOUSNESS. This entry consists of four articles surveying the concept of righteousness in the OT, in early Judaism, in the non-Jewish Greco-Roman world, and in the NT Old Testament The RSV renders the Hebrew ṣedeq-ṣĕdāqâ by a variety of words: acquittal, deliverance, honest evidence (Prov […]
Did you know? Korban from a first century context
The Rule of Corban Now, it’s possible that Yeshua did the same sort of thing as Yohanan. He used a trick to get to the Pharisees, by talking about the issue of Corban. Before I tell you how Jesus did that, let’s look at the rule of Corban itself. This is a special type of vow […]
Did you know? Kedoshim
HOLINESS. This entry surveys the subject of “holiness” as it presented in the Hebrew Bible Old Testament In the OT, holiness is a positive cultic or moral condition of God, people, things, places, and time. It may be an inherent condition or achieved through ritual means. It is defined on the one hand as that […]
Did you know? Our Mandate to do Righteousness and Justice
JUST, JUSTICE. The English language does not distinguish between the two Hebrew terms mišpāṭ, “justice,” and dı̂n, “judgment.” The substantive mišpāṭ, like the root špṭ from which it is derived, is multifarious in meaning. In the Mari documents, the meanings of the root špṭ, according to various contexts, include “to rule,” “to govern,” “to command […]
