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In the 9th chapter of Gary Anderson’s book on sin,  having established that sin could be viewed as a debt in Biblical times and thereafter,  he points out that the natural antinomy to such commercial language for sin was of course credit, which in turn led to a concept of a treasury of merit, not…

CHAPTER TWENTY FIVE: DOUBLE VISION Jesus and the disciples had come to Jericho, a city which another ‘Yeshua’/Jesus had made famous in ancient times. The city had become important again because Herod had built his summer palace there and various priests and Levites lived there as well, commuting up to Jerusalem. As a border town…

CHAPTER TWENTY FOUR: RECONNOITERING WITH THE DISCIPLES The reunion with the disciples found them both positively excited but at the same time perplexed. On the one hand, they seem to have been received with appreciation in many places. On the other hand, it appeared that all sorts of people were now attempting healings and exorcisms…

In Chapter Seven Anderson does his best to balance the scales of how early Jews including rabbinic ones view their God, by stressing that there is plenty of evidence of God being viewed as gracious and merciful,  finding ways to not act as simply an accountant of sin debt.  Anderson is of course right about…
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