Jews, Judaism, and the Old Testament (Index Page for Dave Armstrong)

Footsteps that Echo Forever: My Holy Land Pilgrimage (Nov. 2014, 165p)

[click on book cover for book and purchase info.]

[cover photograph taken by Margie Prox Sindelar in Caesarea Philippi, on 23 October 2014]

 
The Messiah in the Old Testament

Jewish-Christian Dialogue: Is the Servant of Isaiah 53 the Messiah or Collective Israel? (vs. "Ari G.")

Ancient and Medieval Jewish Bible Commentators and the Messianic Interpretation of Isaiah 53

Psalm 110: Examples of Jewish Commentators Who Regard it as Messianic / Reply to Rabbi Tovia Singer's Charges of Christian "Tampering" With the Text

Old Testament and Jewish Conceptions of the Messiah

Relationship of Old and New Covenants / Jews and Christians

Jewish-Christian Dialogue on Authority and the Rabbinic Credentials of Jesus and the Apostle Paul (vs. "Ari G.")

Biblical Evidence for the Oral Torah (Hence, by Analogy, Oral Apostolic Tradition)

Judaism and Christianity: New Testament (Mostly Pauline) Evidence Regarding Their Profound Institutional Closeness

Jewish Law and the New Covenant / Jesus the Jew / Strict "Messianic Judaism"

Anti-Semitism in the Church Fathers and Historically Among Catholics: Resources and Recent Catholic "Institutional Repentance"

 

Short Exchange on the Attempted Polemical Parallel Between Judaizers and Catholics (Alleged Works-Salvation)

Reflections on Jewish-Christian Relations and "Controversial" Terms Like "Messianic Judaism", "Completed Jew", and [Christian] "Convert"

The "Judaizers": Jewish Christians ("Messianic Jews")?, Non-Christian Followers of Judaism? Gnostic Sectarians?

Should a Christian Ever Contribute to a Mosque Building Fund? / Early Christians and Jewish Synagogue and Temple Worship (vs. Grubb)

Reply to Lutheran Nathan Rinne: Exegetical Exposition on Whether the "Leaven" of the Pharisees is Hypocrisy or Doctrinal Falsehood  

Passover in Judaism: "Past Events Become Present Today" (Analogy to the Sacrifice of the Mass) / "Remember" in Scripture

Did Jesus Condemn Masturbation? It Appears So (Striking Talmudic Parallels to the Sermon on the Mount)

Development of Doctrine: Judaism to Christianity

Biblical Evidence for the Oral Torah (Hence, by Analogy, Oral Apostolic Tradition)

The Development of Old Testament and Jewish Views of Sheol, the Afterlife, and Eternal Punishment

Baptism and its Parallel With Circumcision (John Calvin)

Biblical Overview: The Sacrifice of the Mass

Comparative Exegesis of Hebrews 8 / Sacrifice of the Mass (vs. James White)

Reflections on the Sacrifice of the Mass

Samuel the Prophet Appearing to Saul as an Argument for the Communion of Saints: Clarification For Protestant Critic Douglas Mabry

A Refutation of the Fallacies and Circular Reasoning of James White Regarding "Moses' Seat," Authentic Tradition, and Sola Scriptura (vs. James White)

Refutation of James White: Moses' Seat, the Bible, and Tradition (Introduction) (+ Part I | Part II | Part III | Part IV | Part V | Part VI | Parts VII and VIII)

The Old Testament, the Ancient Jews, and Sola Scriptura

Priests, Levites, and Josiah's Destruction of the High Places: Closer to Sola Scriptura or Catholicism? (+ Part Two / Part Three / Part Four / Part Five) (vs. "CPA")

Eucharistic Sacrifice: The Witness of the Church Fathers and the Bible (+ Part II / Part III) (vs. "CPA")

Dialogue With Tim Gallant on Whether the Mass is Similar to Jeroboam's Idolatry (vs. Tim Gallant)

Passover in Judaism: "Past Events Become Present Today" (Analogy to the Sacrifice of the Mass) / "Remember" in Scripture

Alleged Old Testament Textual Contradictions and Ethical Difficulties

Supposed Contradiction Between 2 Samuel 24 and 1 Chronicles 21 (God or Satan as Cause?)

"How Can God [in the OT] Order the Killing and Massacre of Innocents?" [Amalekites, etc.]

 

Did Moses (and God) Sin In Judging the Midianites (Numbers 31)?

Reflections on the Catholic Viewpoint on Original Sin and God's Prerogative to Judge and Take Human Life as He Wills (Even, Sometimes, Entire Nations)

Dialogue on Biblical Cosmology, Round One (vs. Matthew Green)

On the Alleged Contradictions of 2 Samuel 24, and 1 Chronicles 21 and 27 (vs. the atheist "DagoodS")

Did God Harden Pharaoh's Heart? (Does God Positively Ordain Evil?) (vs. [atheist] "DagoodS")

Reply to a Calvinist Critique Concerning the "Hardening of Pharaoh's Heart" (vs. Colin Smith)

Reply to "The Problem of Pain and the Egomania of the Psalms" (vs. Ed Babinski [agnostic])

Second Reply to Agnostic Ed Babinski on the Supposed Irrationality and Immorality of the Psalms and the Christian Worldview (vs. Ed Babinski)

Postscript to Dialogue With Agnostic Ed Babinski on the Psalms, Etc.: Ed's Attempt to Enlist an Ancient Near East Scholar in Support Backfires (Dr. James Roger Black vs. Ed Babinski; compiled and additional commentary by Dave Armstrong)

The Judgment of Nations: Biblical Passages and Commentary

Flood Geology, the (Global?) Flood, and Uniformitarianism (+ Part II) (vs. Kevin Rice)

Question on the Nature and Extent of Noah's Flood (as Understood in Catholicism) and My Reply [Facebook, 7 April 2014]

Objections to Some Atheist / Agnostic "Proof Texts" of an Alleged Flat-Earth Biblical Cosmology (vs. Ed Babinski)

Old Testament: General

Has Joshua's Altar on Mt. Ebal Been Discovered and Verified by Archaeology? [22 July 2014]

"Did Adam and Eve Really Exist?" (Dr. Dennis Bonnette, Crisis Magazine, 11-24-14)  

Are Catholics Permitted to Believe That Elijah and Enoch Were Taken Up To Heaven?

Fr. Robert Barron Denies That Adam Was a "Literal Figure"



Fr. Robert Barron's Denial that the Adam and Eve of Genesis Were Historical Figures and the Primal Human Pair [11-28-13]

Defending the Literal, Historical Adam of the Genesis Account (vs. Catholic Eric S. Giunta)

Sodom and Gomorrah: the Current Archaeological Trend of a Location North of the Dead Sea 

Reply to Lutheran Nathan Rinne: Comparative Ecclesiology, "Lutheran" Church Fathers? /  The Old Testament Religious System Was Ultimately Indefectible Like the Church, But With Less Divinely-Provided Power and Promises  

Reply to a Skeptic Regarding Elijah the Prophet's Extraordinary Departure From Earth and Relation to John the Baptist (vs. "paul")

Dialogue With a Skeptic Regarding Elijah and John the Baptist, Round Two (vs. "paul")

Adam and Eve, Cain and Abel, and Noah as Actual Historical Figures: the Biblical Evidence and Catholic Agreement With It
 
New Testament Proofs of Noah’s Historical Existence (Seton Magazine article, 22 April 2014)

Has Joshua's Altar on Mt. Ebal Been Discovered and Verified by Archaeology? 

Catholics and the Historicity of Jonah the Prophet

 

Alcohol: Biblical and Catholic Teaching

Biblical Evidence for Annulments

Debate on the Morality of Masturbation and Whether the Bible Condemns It (Onan) (vs. Steve Hays)

Resources For the Twelve Tribes of Israel [Links Page]

Righteous and Sinful Anger in Moses: Smashing the Tablets and the Rock at Meribah

Jesus Had "Offspring"? (Isaiah 53:10)

Pacifism vs. "Just War": Biblical and Social Factors

Extraordinary "Catholic" Movie: "The Five People You Meet in Heaven" (from a book by Mitch Albom)

The Calvinist Doctrine of Total Depravity and Romans 3:10-11 ("None is Righteous . . . No One Seeks For God"): Reply to James White

Dialogue on the Documentary Theory of Biblical Authorship (JEPD) and of Dissenting Liberal Hermeneutics Generally

Dialogue: Why Did God Kill Onan? Why is Contraception Condemned by the Catholic Church?

Treatise on the Queenship of Mary, "Queen Mother", and the Assumption (Steve Ray)

The Biblical, Primitive Papacy: St. Peter and the "Keys of the Kingdom of Heaven": Scholarly Opinion (Mostly Protestant) (+ Part II)

Adam and Eve: Defense of Their Literal Existence as the Primal Human Couple, by Catholic Philosopher, Dr. Dennis Bonnette

Dr. Dennis Bonnette Debunks the Argument Against Adam and Eve from Molecular Biologists

EXTERNAL LINKS

On Jewish History (Christopher Dawson)
The Jews as the Christians Saw Them (Robert Louis Wilken)
Judaism or Jewishness? (Elliot Abrams)
Love, Hate, and Jewish Identity (Jonathan Sacks)
Comparing Christianity and Judaism (Peter Kreeft)
Jews and - Catholics: Beyond Apologies (David Novak)
Christians in the Land Called Holy (Habib C. Malik)
The Temple Mount in Jerusalem
Babylonian Talmud

Pope Pius XII and the Nazi Holocaust / Persecution of Jews / Anti-Semitism

Anti-Semitism in the Church Fathers and Historically Among Catholics: Resources and Recent Catholic "Institutional Repentance"

 

Reflections on Jewish-Christian Relations and "Controversial" Terms Like "Messianic Judaism", "Completed Jew", and [Christian] "Convert"

EXTERNAL LINKS

Jewish Recognition of Pope Pius XII's Support

800,000 Saved by Pius XII's "Silence" (Donald DeMarco)

Exposing Hitler's Pope and Its Author  (William Doino, Jr.) 

In Defence of Pius XII and His Aid to the Jews (Rabbi David Dalin)

Hitler's Pope? (Donald Devine)

Blaming the Wartime Pope (Kenneth Woodward)

The Tragic Heroism of Pope Pius XII (George W. Rutler)

Nazi Policy and the Catholic Church (Karol Jozef Gajewski)

Pope Pius XII and the Jews (Margherita Marchione)

The Catholic Church and the Nazis (website)

Pope Pius XI [not Pius XII] and the Nazis (Jimmy Akin)

Was Christianity Responsible for the Holocaust? (Helen M. Valois)

Was Hitler a Christian? (Answers in Action)

Israel and the Palestinians

Discussion on Israeli-Gaza Strip Conflict of July 2014 [Facebook, 23 July 2014]

Dialogue on Israeli-Palestianian Relations [with Alex Brittain, Facebook, 18 March 2015]

Yasser Arafat: The Terrorist Who Won the Nobel Peace Prize [Links Page]

Updated on 18 March 2015.


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