Several years ago, I stumbled across this article from Aish.com, a Jewish website. I thought it was a pretty good summary of the differences between Jewish and Christian perspectives on Jesus. Here it is... One of the most common questions we receive at Aish.com is: “Why don’t Jews believe in Jesus?” Let’s understand why ― not in order to to disparage other religions, but rather to clarify the Jewish position.
Jews do not accept Jesus as the messiah because:
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Over the past several years, I've tried different things to keep my blogging simple, while still leaving myself enough flexibility to pursue the interests about which I feel led to write. To that end, for quite some time I tried to consolidate all my blogging down to a single blog, here at CoryHowell.net. I figured I could blog about all of the different things in which I was interested right, call it "Corybanter," just as I used to call my first blog on Posterous. (I still miss how easy things were in the Posterous days.) Recently I've changed my mind...again.
I recently got interested in Sherlock Holmes again, so I revived my Sherlock Holmes blog: Baker Street Babble. That one lives here at Weebly, where CoryHowell.net also resides. I also write about Shakespeare from time to time, over on a Tumblr blog entitled Willy Wigglestick. I've been pretty active on that one lately as well. Speaking of Shakespeare, I also have what I call a "mini-blog" on Medium.com, that I call Bites of Bard. I'm not sure it's a great title, but it's where I share some of my favorite Shakespeare quotes. It's a nice, simple site that lends itself to a quick sharing of a quote. I recently discovered that my old Corybanter blog on Tumblr was also a good place for sharing a quick quote or link. It's a little easier than putting together a complete post with a lot of text, which I still tend to do right here on Weebly. So even though I had shut that blog down awhile back, I've been reviving it a bit, using it for quick stuff. Then there's Dallas: The Poetry of Alice K. Howell. This is where I've been transcribing poems that my Grandma Howell wrote back in the 1930s. I have a little black notebook (that's actually my dad's) full of my grandmother's poetry, much of which was published in newspapers in the Oakland, CA area. I have another one on Medium.com, that I write on from time to time: it's called Bible and Prayer Book. I haven't posted anything there in awhile, but in the past I've used it to jot down thoughts from Bible study based on The Book of Common Prayer. Oh, and speaking of the Bible, I also have a blog here at Weebly called The Bible Bookshelf Blog. I write there from time to time about different versions of the Bible, mostly in English. (I mean, I write the posts in English, but some of the Bibles I cover are not in English.) That's pretty much it...for now. I have a couple of other blogs that I've started and not kept up. I won't bother linking to them at the moment. I may end up consolidating again sometime in the future, or I may start new blogs somewhere else. Who knows? I just keep writing whatever comes to mind. Thanks for reading. A couple years before their famous "unmasking," KISS released one of the least successful records of their entire career: Music from "The Elder," a concept album for a movie project that never materialized. Funny thing, though, I really like the record. It's a bit like progressive rock, and completely like the rest of KISS's work. Anyway, below is the video of the only American single from the album: "A World Without Heroes." You can click on the YouTube link to the album to hear the rest of the record. Last night, we ended up watching the 1990 film Flatliners, starring Julia Roberts, Kiefer Sutherland, Billy Baldwin, Oliver Platt, and of course, Kevin Bacon. I couldn't help looking up the famous "Six Degrees of Kevin Bacon" phenomenon, and landed on the website The Oracle of Bacon. Not only are you able to look up any actor who appears on IMDB, and find their "Bacon number," but you can also find other actors who are major centers of the Hollywood universe. In fact, there are hundreds of actors who have worked with far more people than Bacon has. Anyway, check it out at the Oracle of Bacon.
"You can't believe everything you read on the Internet, people...seriously." Apparently a lot of people are all ticked off by this new ad from Gillette. First of all, it's an ad: it's designed to sell razors. So, relax. Second, the overall theme seems to be "guys don't have to be jerks," which is a good message. Anyway, I guess taking offense at everything is just the Zeitgeist. Oh well, I like the Gillette ad, That's why I've shared it below. Enjoy...or don't, it's a free country. Just FYI, in addition to my main Shakespeare blog, Willy Wigglestick, I also maintain a kind of Shakespeare "mini-blog," which I've named Bites of Bard. It's a very simple blog on Medium.com, where I post some of my favorite Shakespeare quotes. Feel free to check it out!
I've had a copy of Robert Alter's The Five Books of Moses: A Translation With Commentary for several years now, and it's long been one of my favorite versions of the Torah. Recently it was announced that Alter has finished, at long last, his translation/commentary of the entire Hebrew Bible. This one is definitely going on my Amazon Wish List! Just a couple days ago, Rachel Martin interviewed Alter on NPR: you can read and/or listen to the interview HERE.
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