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20 September 1900 Birth of Joachim Jeremias, scholar of Yeshua’s Jewish context #otdimjh

For those of us who cut our teeth studying theology in the 1970s, the works of Joachim Jeremias were eye-opening, magisterial and indispensable. After the Bible, Jeremias seemed the next most authoritative source, so detailed, well-written and user-friendly was his work. Now, some 40 years later, his work still carries great weight, and his books are still well worth study. His tracking of the…

In the same month in which their Majesties [Ferdinand and Isabella] issued the edictthat all Jews should be driven out of the kingdom and its territories, in the same month they gave me the order to undertake with sufficient men my expedition of discovery to the Indies.” So begins Christopher Columbus’s diary. The expulsion that Columbus refers to was so cataclysmic an event that ever since, the…

Paul Julius, baron von Reuter, original name Israel Beer Josaphat   (born July 21, 1816, Kassel, Electorate of Hesse [Germany]—died Feb. 25, 1899, Nice, France), German-born founder of one of the first news agencies, which still bears his name. Of Jewish parentage, his father was a rabbi, Samuel Levi Josaphat.

As a clerk in his uncle’s bank in Göttingen, Ger., Reuter made the acquaintance of…

23 June 1520 Johann Reuchlin’s “Augenspiegel” banned by Pope Leo X #otdimjh

“The named book, “Augenspiegel” [Eye Glasses], was and is scandalous and offensive to the pious ears of Christians and is excessively favorable to the impious Jews and moreover it must be removed from circulation and from the hands of Christians and its use must be inhibited.” (Pope Leo X)

Johannes Reuchlin

Johann Reuchlin (sometimes Johannes) (22 February 1455 – 30 June 1522) was a German-born…

 For decades, Israel has made it next to impossible for immigrant Messianic Jews, who affirm belief in Jesus as Messiah, to become citizens of Israel. (Christianity Today reports). Often, if Messianic believers disclosed their faith in ‘Yeshua,’ the name they use for Jesus, government authorities would reject their citizenship application.

But last week, the Supreme Court of Israel, ruled on a…

Michael Solomon Alexander, D. D., bishop of the Anglican Church

Bishop Alexander’s first year in Jerusalem was busy. His first ordination was of John Mühleisen, who worked with CMS in Ethiopia, and was a pioneering missionary to Moslems. The organization he proposed, “The Society for Propagating the Gospel among the Moslems, in connection with the Church of England” owed not a little in its…

Operation Moses (Hebrew: מִבְצָע מֹשֶׁה, Mivtza Moshe) refers to the covert evacuation of Ethiopian Jews (known as the “Beta Israel” community or “Falashas”) from Sudan during a famine in 1984. Originally called Gur Aryeh Yehuda, “Cub of the Lion of Judah” by Israelis, the United Jewish Appeal changed the name to “Operation Moses.”

Gidney records:

Passing through several towns and villages, Lotka reached Shiraz, the capital of Fars, after eighteen days’ travelling. There the chief rabbi actually helped him to distribute his New Testaments and tracts. Bushire was reached on December ist, and Lotka preached in the synagogue of the Jews. He arrived at Bagdad next, on December 17th, thus completing a journey which had lasted…