Month: August 2023
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Isaiah 40, Tannaitic Rabbis, “Goyim,” and Rosen-Zvi
While doing research for my previous post, I had found an interesting passage in one of Ishay Rosen-Zvi’s papers: In other words, a few centuries after Christ, the Jewish rabbis had twisted a passage in scripture (namely Isaiah 40.17) in order to construct the notion of “goyim” as “gentiles.” For the record, Rosen-Zvi is himself…