ANCIENT ISRAEL IN SPAIN AND BRITAIN
(A Review of an important 1846 work authored by historian and theologian Dr Moses Margolioth: ‘THE HISTORY OF THE JEWS IN GREAT BRITAIN’ ) MOSES Margoliouth was a learned and respected minister in the Church of England of the nineteenth century. As his name might indicate, he was also of Jewish extraction. Born in Suwalki,…
HOLLAND IDENTIFIED WITH ZEBULUN – WHO WAS ZEBULUN?
In the firstbook of the Bible, Genesis 30:20,an account of his birth is given. Zebulun is the youngest son of Jacob and Leah being the sixth son. “God has endued me with a good dowry, now will my husband dwell with me, because I have born him six sons, and she called him ZEBULUN.” What…
GREEK MYTHOLOGY AND THE BIBLE
WE began our series in part one with a look at the Old Testament roots of Norse mythology. In that study, we saw that the beliefs of the Norse bore a striking resemblance to the religion and culture of the Hebrew, Canaanites, Assyrians, and Babylonians. These cultural “cross-currents” were not unusual, and indicate a Semitic…
WHAT DID GRACE REPLACE?
IF GRACE didn’t replace theTen Commandments, and if it didn’t replace the statutes, and it didn’t replace the judgements, and it didn’t replace the hygienic laws and health laws, then what did grace replace? The answer is simple: it replaced rituals. Rituals! Yes, grace took our sins away, revealed a loving God to humanity; paid…
OUR TRIBUTE TO THE FRENCH ISRAELITES
AFTER so many centuries of persecution, scattering, loss of identity, near genocide, and latterly of being ignored and discredited, the wonderful French Israelites should indeed be praised, admired and acknowledged. Aside from the known Israel areas like Normandy and Brittany, it is essential to distinguish the characteristics by which to identify those whose ancestors made…
