I have this topic stuck in my head today in the wake of some conversations with folks about the Dead Sea Scrolls. But it could just as well be about interpreting any passage in the Hebrew Bible. I’ve grown weary of people (especially in Christian Middle Earth)...
Two Powers in Heaven
Mike Heiser’s Jewish Godhead Course
Many readers will be aware that one of the important elements of my work on the divine council and the biblical supernatural worldview is the notion that the New Testament doctrine of a Trinitarian Godhead derives from the Old Testament. (In case you’re...
Mike’s New Course on the Godhead in the OT Now Available
For those of you familiar with my divine council work, this new Logos Mobile Ed course (“The Jewish Trinity“) covers the content related to the Godhead in the Old Testament – the biblical backdrop of Judaism’s “Two Powers in Heaven”...
The Two Powers in Heaven
Trinitarian Jewish Thinking Before Jesus
Many of you know I have a longstanding interest in what scholars call Jewish binitarian monotheism. My site on the two powers in heaven is an introduction to that topic. With that backdrop, I am at times asked about Jewish trinitarian thinking prior to Christianity. ...
The Jewish Theology of Two Powers in Heaven as the Backdrop for the Christology of the New Testament
Here is the last of my four-part series on Jesus and the Old Testament at Grace Church in Bellingham. Editor's note: broken links removed and replaced. MSH January 3 2010 from Grace Church Bellingham on Vimeo.