Although there is some question about whether echad means one or “alone,” the import is quite clear: Adonai* and Adonai only is the people of Israel’s God. This is Judaism’s quintessential statement ...

“I am Adonai your God who took you out of the land of Egypt, out of the house of slaves” (Exodus 20:2). Jews alone consider this verse the first of the Ten Commandments. (Catholics and Protestants ...

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I found Blaire French’s “Putting ‘Soul’ Back in the Hebrew Bible” (Houses of Worship, April 5) about the Bible far too limited in scope. While his discussion of the problems regarding the translation ...

For several years back in my youthful evangelical and Pentecostal days, I regularly joined in Bible study, worship and fellowship with a “house church” led by my friend Stillman who called himself a ...