Ancient Hebrew Poetry

Is there a biblical warrant for modern Israel?

Michael Bird weighs in with the sort of one-sided statement I’m used to hearing from fellow evangelicals on the question of Zionism. It’s just that Michael is one-sided in the less common direction. In place of undiluted support for Zionism, he offers undiluted support for anti-Zionism. The idea seems to be that one reserves one’s most indefensible statements for one’s personal blog. If that’s what’s going on, it might be better not to blog at all.

The relative unimportance of the questions biblical studies likes to address

The important things we believe or disbelieve, the truth of confessions of faith such as “Jesus is the light of the world” or “the entire Torah [from Moses to Moses via Aqiba, down to the present day] was given by God to Moses on Sinai,” are not dependent on Jesus having spoken of himself in those terms, or on Moses being able to understand the inner connection between the Torah associated with him in the Pentateuch and that same Torah as understood by Akiva.