Review, “Jesus and the Dead Sea Scrolls,” John Bergsma (Pt VII)

Posted on January 1, 2020 by Fr Yuhanna Azize

When the Lord presided at the Last Supper, He was discharging another priestly function, that of offering sacrifice (179). In Bergsma’s consciously literal alternative translation, the Lord says in Luke […]

Review, “Jesus and the Dead Sea Scrolls,” John Bergsma (Pt VI)

Posted on December 6, 2019 by Fr Yuhanna Azize

Part Five: Holy Orders and the Scrolls (I) Chapter 11 is titled “Priesthood and the Scrolls.” It opens by noting how diverse the views of different Christian groups are on […]

Review, “Jesus and the Dead Sea Scrolls,” John Bergsma (Pt V)

Posted on November 21, 2019 by Fr Yuhanna Azize

Part Four: Matrimony, Celibacy, and the Scrolls Bergsma opens chapter 9 by noting the widespread fallacy that the ancient Jews did not practise celibacy (125), for the Essenes in fact […]

Review, “Jesus and the Dead Sea Scrolls,” John Bergsma (Pt IV)

Posted on October 31, 2019 by Fr Yuhanna Azize

Part Three: The Eucharist and the Scrolls (Part Two) This difference between the two calendars, whereby the Essenes celebrated it on Tuesday but “the Jews” four days later on Saturday, […]

Review: “Jesus and the Dead Sea Scrolls,” John Bergsma (Pt III)

Posted on October 26, 2019 by Fr Yuhanna Azize

Part Three: The Eucharist and the Scrolls (Part One) Chapter 6 is titled: “Did Qumran Have a “Eucharist”?”, and commences with Justin Martyr, describing the Christian Eucharist about the year […]

Review: “Jesus and the Dead Sea Scrolls,” John Bergsma (Pt II)

Posted on October 23, 2019 by Fr Yuhanna Azize

Part Two: Baptism and the Scrolls At the outset, Bergsma succinctly states why a connection between the Baptist and the Essenes seems probable: The Essenes were the only sect of […]

Review: “Jesus and the Dead Sea Scrolls,” John Bergsma (Pt I)

Posted on October 20, 2019 by Fr Yuhanna Azize

John Bergsma, Jesus and the Dead Sea Scrolls: Revealing the Jewish Roots of Christianity, Image, New York, 2019 (256 pp.) … the fact that the Essenes, by their prayer and […]

What Did Jesus Look Like?

Posted on October 6, 2018 by Fr Yuhanna Azize

This interesting hardcover book won’t tell you what the Lord looked like, but it will tell you five things about his appearance: (1) what he most probably wore; (2) what […]

“John Who Saw”

Posted on August 14, 2018 by Fr Yuhanna Azize

There is a little-known, but very interesting book called John Who Saw by the English lawyer Adrian Howell North Green-Armytage (who must be deceased by now). It is admittedly a layman’s […]

J.H. Newman, Rise and Progress of Universities (Part II)

Posted on July 3, 2018 by Fr Yuhanna Azize

Chapter VII of Newman’s Rise and Progress of Universities is titled “Athenian Schools: Influence.” This entire post is devoted to it, because Newman makes the invaluable point that we need virtue […]

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