New ‘Reflections,’ Hartman Institute E-Magazine of Ideas, Now Online

The newest issue of Reflections, the Shalom Hartman Institute electronic magazine of ideas, is now online. Read these five great articles: Israeli Society and the ‘Society of Learners’ Professors Shlomo Naeh, Zvi Zohar and Elhanan Reiner discuss the place of Torah scholars within the Jewish People throughout the generations, and the relevance of models from [...]

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Israel Knohl exclusive interview on video about Gabriel Revelation

Israel Knohl’s new book on his controversial interpretation and analysis of the stone monument with fragmentary Hebrew writing in ink (not engraved) on it: Messiahs and Resurrection in the Gabriel Revelation, will be published May 7, 2009, by Shalom Hartman Institute and Continuum Books. Prof. Knohl sat down with me the other day to discuss the stone, [...]

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More on ‘Messiah Stone’ in Biblical Archaeology mag

Israel Knohl tells us his latest in-depth article about the “Messiah Stone” and its translation is available in the new issue of Biblical Archaeology Review (It’s the cover article for you print types). What Israel tells us is also new is written confirmation by prominent archeological scholar Ada Yardeni, “premier expert of the script of that [...]

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Israel Knohl: First Example of Tikkun Olam in Tanach

Watch this video of Israel Knohl, Senior Fellow, Shalom Hartman Institute, Jerusalem, Israel, author of the controversial, “The Messiah Before Jesus,” whose tranlsation of the “Messiah Stone” has caused a stir worldwide, talks here about the Jewish concept of tikkun olam – repairing the world, and where it first appeared in the Jewish Bible.

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David Hartman on Israel: opportunities and possibilities, not messianic redemption

David Hartman has just posted another remarkable commentary on the Hartman Institute website. David Hartman is able to maintain his optimism, faith, and love for Israel and the Jewish people in the face of disappointments. He is sustained in that precisely because he does not see Israel as a messianic redemption, but as an opportunity [...]

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‘Biblical stone’ reports of pre-Jesus Messiah rocket around world

Oh, the power of the New York Times combined with a provocative idea. The Times story quoting Hartman Institute Senior Fellow Israel Knohl‘s innovative commentary on the “biblical stone” and the idea that Jewish tradition and folklore had of the messiah whose death and resurrection three days later would redeem the people has spun around [...]

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Hartman’s Israel Knohl in the news for pre-Jesus Jewish tablet

Shalom Hartman Institute Senior Fellow Israel Knohl is in the news – in a big way – as the New York Times has covered the so-called “Gabriel’s Vision” stone tablet, a sort of “Dead Sea Scroll on stone” from Second Temple days that suggests a Jewish myth/story/prediction of a messiah who would rise from the [...]

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