by Carl Howard | Oct 13, 2010 | Atheism and Religion, Blog Topics, Blogging Jewish Law, Blogging the Bible
In Monday’s post I talked about a few of the basic issues concerning with the Catholic Church restricting public access to the complete Bible. Today it’s time to look at the same in Judaism, which has some very interesting parallels. Of course in general there was not...
by Carl Howard | Oct 11, 2010 | Atheism and Religion, Blog Topics, Blogging Jewish Law, Blogging the Bible
I’ve recently decided to take a break from blogging the Bible in favour of a bigger focus on Judaism itself. And the first book to warrant a look-see is the Kitzur Shulchan Aruch. However, before I delve into it, it was worth making an introductory post about the book...
by Carl Howard | Oct 7, 2010 | Atheism and Religion, Blog Topics, Blogging Jewish Law
Just a quick one today, thanks to the always well-researched Irreligiosophy podcast. And it is hilarious, for I am not using the title metaphorically. Let’s start with the tehum. This is a concept in Rabbinic Judaism that places a restriction on how far you can go...
by Carl Howard | Sep 30, 2010 | Atheism and Religion, Blog Topics, Blogging Jewish Law
Today is the 2nd international Blasphemy Day (see my post from last year). It was originally an idea of CFI as a free expression initiative, however based on the latest loony directions taken by CFI they’re likely to wash their hands of it. Anyway, onward we go, CFI...
by Carl Howard | Mar 4, 2010 | Atheism and Religion, Blog Topics, Blogging Jewish Law
Chapters 13 and 14 form a bizarre series of incidents about the continuation of Saul’s military campaign against the Philistines. War profiteering The first is the description of war profiteering by the Philistines (13:19-21). As mentioned before, the book quite...
by Carl Howard | Aug 15, 2009 | Atheism and Religion, Atrocities and Oppression, Blog Topics, Blogging Jewish Law
I want to look at stoning in Judaism as a quick case study of how concepts evolve in religions as their practitioners mature morally. Early Hebrew Bible: You can get stoned for anything (there’s about 22 capital crimes, although stoning itself only applies to some)....
