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Nov 27, 2020 · Jesus is not adopted because He never became God's Son, but has always been God's Son. Calling Jesus the only begotten Son of God means that He is of the same nature as God, not a different nature. To beget is to become the father of; to create is to make.
The Rabbi's Cat (Le chat du rabbin) is a French comic book by Joann Sfar set largely in 1920s Algiers. Its protagonist, the titular nameless cat, is owned by Rabbi Abraham Sfar and his daughter Zlabya, whom he loves unconditionally.
Jan 1, 2001 · In Algeria in the 1930s, a cat belonging to a widowed rabbi and his beautiful daughter, Zlabya, eats the family parrot and gains the ability to speak. To his master’s consternation, the cat immediately begins to tell lies (the first being that he didn’t eat the parrot).
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The cat helps the rabbi pass a French language exam so that he might one day become head rabbi, but after the exam the cat loses his ability to speak (as he invoked the name of God to pray for his master). After the discovery of a Russian Jew who has stowed away in a shipment of religious texts, the cat learns he can speak Russian.
- The Original Context
- Possibility 1: The King Becomes YHWH’s Son and So Becomes Divine
- Possibility 2: YHWH’s Metaphorical Son
- A Future Davidic King: Second Temple Interpretation
- Jesus as God’s Son in The New Testament
- Rabbinic Interpretation of Psalm 2:7—The Messiah
- Medieval Jewish Interpretation
- From David to Messiah Back to David
Psalm 2 is a royal psalmthat focuses on YHWH’s support of Judah’s king against his enemies: The first two verses set the foreign kings against YHWH’s משׁיח, “anointed one,” a term that means the king who was anointed (מ.שׁ.ח) with oil upon coronation. The reference is to the king of Judah (and not of [Northern] Israel), as verse 6 indicates by its ...
While several Hebrew Bible texts suggest the possibility of divine beings fathering children with human women,this meaning does not fit the context of the psalm. Yet, a more modest claim, that the king becomes YHWH’s divine son upon accession to the throne, does make sense here. Such a transformation follows Egyptian models, where upon assuming the...
Alternatively, Psalm 2 is speaking metaphorically. Much biblical language about YHWH is metaphorical: He is, e.g., king, shepherd, warrior, etc. An instructive example of such a metaphorical depiction is YHWH’s self-description in Deutero-Isaiah as a woman in childbirth: The prophet is not asserting that YHWH is anatomically female, and experiences...
The Davidic monarchy ended with the destruction of Judah and the First Temple in 586B.C.E. As time passed, readers began to find alternative meanings for Psalm 2:7. Originally about celebrating the royal coronation of a reigning king, the psalm was later repurposed as a prophecy of the eschatological age under the rulership of a future Davidic king...
As James L. Mays correctly observed, Psalm 2 “is the only text in the Old Testament that speaks of God’s king, messiah, and son in one place, the titles so important for the presentation of Jesus in the Gospels.” By the first centuryC.E., the Hebrew term mashiach/Greek christos, “anointed,” comes to mean not only anointed with oil at a coronation, ...
Classical rabbinic texts from the third to seventh centuries on Psalm 2 are typically not polemical. They understand Psalm 2 as about the future war of Gog and Magog (Ezek 38–39) and about the future messiah.Thus, these rabbinic readings represent a continuity with what we saw in late Second Temple texts, including, to some extent, the New Testamen...
In the medieval period, Jews in Muslim lands follow the Talmud and understand the king mentioned in Psalm 2 as the messiah. Saadiah Gaon, for instance, states that the psalm “refers particularly to those who will rise up against the anointed of the Lord on earth.” In contrast, Jewish interpreters in Christian lands not only generally avoid this int...
The interpretive arc for Psalm 2 was strongly influenced by historical context. The psalm begins as a royal coronation hymn in which the deity promises the anointed Davidic king dominance over his enemies by expressing this promise in terms of the king becoming his (real or metaphorical) son. Jews in the late Second Temple period, with the monarchy...
Jan 23, 2013 · “To be Jewish is to fear God,” the rabbi tells the cat. And to be Jewish is to challenge His commandments, as various characters demonstrate throughout the movie.
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It decides to take the viewer on a spiritual journey that explores all facets of religion, as this cat attempts to find meaning by converting to Judaism. The incredibly likable cast of characters go on an adventure that truly explores what it means to believe in religion,…
