The Gospel of Matthew: Reconfigured Torah

Kevin G . Smith The Function of “ Weeping and Gnashing of Teeth ” in Matthew ’ s Gospel

On six occurrences (8.12; 13.42; 13.50; 22.13; 24.51; 25.30), Matthew recorded Jesus pronouncing judgment, using the idiom “weeping and gnashing of teeth”. Each occurrence played a central role in the development of Matthew’s theology, by communicating not only a fundamental component of the theme of judgment, but also an increasing force and potency of the event itself. It was discovered that ...

Who Wrote the Torah

The issue of the authorship of the Torah is important for at least this one reason: since the book claims to have been written by a certain writer, it is simply a matter of integrity that that claim is verified. If this claim to authorship is not substantiated, then why should we trust what that book says? In short, if the Torah claims to be written by Moshe, and we find that it is, in fact, no...

The Torah code controversy

In this paper we briefly explain what a Torah code is and give an example of one. We show how to calculate the probability of its occurrence in a suitably defined population of texts. We explain how it is possible to misadvertise the computed probabilities, making it seem that the probability of a Torah code is very small. We briefly discuss the controversy and suggest that new more carefully c...

Speaking with the Gospel

Phenylketonuria: questioning the gospel