re: #355 William Barnett-Lewis

Yep. I’ve read a fair bit looking for it. There are some bits from a while after the split that show just how bad the split went for both sides - especially since one side ended up with all the political power afterwards.

Still, I study the mishnah (and talmud too, to a certain extent, though it came later) because I want to understand what He would have known of the law, the prophets and the writings in his time. I see the earliest materials that show a very Jewish man and I try to understand that if we gentiles are to live up to the grace of god show to us by Him then we have a far harder row to hoe than the asshats like Bryan Fischer or Pat Robertson would teach.

Shmuley Boteach wrote Kosher Jesus but given Shmuley’s tendency for bullshit and his appeal to the wingnutty demographic I don’t know how much actual historical, scholarly or theological value this book has, if any.