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Translation Debates – A Jewish View

By Lois Tverberg on

An updated version of the New International Version (NIV) has come out this year, and of course, controversy abounds. Few issues stir up evangelical Christian passions more than Bible translation. Knowing the reverence that Jews have for the Text, I was curious what opinion they’d have. What translation do they consider authoritative? What kind of [...]

Pluck out your eye? Putting it in Context

By Lois Tverberg on

If your eye causes you to sin, pluck it out and throw it from you. It is better for you to enter life with one eye, than to have two eyes and be cast into the fiery hell. Matthew 18:9 Some of the sayings of Jesus are so strong that we wonder if Jesus really [...]

Shema: An Ancient Memory in an Orphanage

By Lois Tverberg on

(Excerpt from Walking in the Dust of Rabbi Jesus, Zondervan, 2012) In 1945, Rabbi Eliezer Silver headed up the search for thousands of displaced Jewish children across Europe. They had been hidden from the clutches of the Nazis on farms, convents, and monasteries, and now he sought to return them to their families if at [...]

Hearing Jesus Through A Disciple’s Ears

By Lois Tverberg on

[An excerpt from the first chapter of Walking in the Dust of Rabbi Jesus (Zondervan, 2012)] What does it mean that Jesus lived as a Jewish rabbi who called and trained disciples? And how does learning about his teachings in their original context enable us to better live out our calling? Jesus’ first followers responded [...]

The Secrets God Keeps

By Lois Tverberg on

Why does the Bible begin with the second letter of the alphabet, not the first? To show that not all knowledge is accessible to man, but some is reserved for God himself.