Jesus (Christ), the «Nootz(e)ri» or «Nazarene» – who was he, what did he (really) stand for, and how did he die? In the first post of this Easter series, we saw that (1) contrary to what some have been claiming, there do exist fairly extensive non-Christian traditions referring to a person who is clearly (for…
Stikkord: israel
Reflections on the «Historicity» of the Exodus
As many are aware of, the Old Testament or the Tanakh (including the Torah) sets forth the extraordinary claim, accepted by traditional “Judaisms” and “Christianities”, that the “Israelites” spent some 400 years in Egypt – many of them as slaves. (Genesis 15:12–14 (“four hundred years”), Exodus 12:39–41 (“four hundred and thirty years”, c.f. Genesis 11:17),…
Edmund Schilvold: Skribent, fotograf, filosof, friluftsentusiast 