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God in Tanakh is Actually a Man, a Human

Listen, I can read Hebrew quite well, and I know what's the meaning "Kemareh Adam כְּמַרְאֵה אָדָם (Like a form of Adam)".

Logos, Memra, and Jesus - Chapter 1: Christianity and Judaism - A. Christianity Derived from Judaism

Christianity is a religion which was born from Judaism ( the term that is used by Nikolaus Walter that “Ancient Christianity” derived from Judaism). The fact that can not be denied at all that the Christianity truly derived from Judaism. Even Jacob Neusner and Bruce Chilton said that if someone learns about the discipline of religion, there is no better premise that will be found that the Christianity truly derived from Judaism. It can be said that if there was no Judaism, unlikely Christianity could be born.

Logos, Memra, and Jesus - Chapter 2: Historical Observation to Hellenism - A. Hellenism - 1. The Term of Hellenism

“Helenism” comes from the word Hellas (Ἑλλάς) in Greek language which the meaning is “the Land of Greek”. Therefore, the term “Helenism” can be understood as an effort to make the other countries like the greek country. In general, the term “Hellenism” is a term which commonly used by historians to refer a period which was started from the death of Alexander the Great (323 BCE) until the fall of the Greek kingdom by the Roman Empire in 148 BCE or until the period of the defeat of Mark Anthony and Cleopatra VII in Actium in the year 31 BCE and the merger the Egypt into the Roman Kingdom. Egyps was the only one and the last nation which still embraced Helenism by the time of the Roman Kingdom started to flourish. By the defeat of the Egypt by the Roman, then the last Hellenistic government in the world at that time was over

The Concept of Memra (מימרא)

One of the ancient literatures which comes from the Palestinian Jewish neighborhood is Aramaic Targum. Aramaic Targum is a translation of ancient Jewish rabbis in Palestine and Babylonia(50) in the time before Jesus or in the second Temple era(51) in which they translated Tanakh from Hebrew into Aramaic language.(52) Aramaic Targum currently gets an important status amongst scholars who want to research the New Testament background in order to be more better in understanding the Aramaic language background in the time of Jesus.(53) However, Aramaic Targum is not an ordinary translation because Aramaic Targum contains a lot of paraphrases which were done by the ancient rabbis at that time which in the paraphrases, many theological concepts and their theology written in their time.(54) It means, in Aramaic Targum, there were a lot of theological concepts from Jews at that time which enable the scholars to comprehend how the Palestinian Jews regard and comprehend their scriptures.

The Problem of Logos (λόγος) Concept and Palestinian Jews

It is true that seemingly the theology of Logos (λόγος) came from Judaism itself, but the thing that we have to understand that Philo was a Hellenistic Jew which spoke in Greek language or it can be said he was a diasporean Jew who lived in Alexandria, it is far from Israel. From here, a question arises, could the concept of Logos (λόγος) of Philo penetrate in the theological environment of Palestinian Jews?

The Concept of Logos (λόγος)

One of the interesting concepts in Christianity is the concept of Jesus as “Logos (λόγος) ‘Word’”. The statement that Jesus is “Logos (λόγος) ‘Word’” is written in the gospel of John:

The Ignoring of Judaism Concepts

Ironically, the things that are happening in Christianity is the ignoring of Judaism concepts themselves. Commonly, the Christians cholars (including the Jewish scholars also) have implanted a deeply ingrained belief in their own communities respectively that there are sharp differences between Christianity and Judaism in the time of early Christianity.(12) A Church dogmatic historian, Basil Studer said this:

Christianity Derived from Judaism

Christianity is a religion which was born from Judaism ( the term that is used by Nikolaus Walter that “Ancient Christianity” derived from Judaism). The fact that can not be denied at all that the Christianity truly derived from Judaism. Even Jacob Neusner and Bruce Chilton said that if someone learns about the discipline of religion, there is no better premise that will be found that the Christianity truly derived from Judaism. It can be said that if there was no Judaism, unlikely Christianity could be born.

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