Of course I cannot speak for ZC, but there are some Christian confessions that are getting increasingly interested in Jewish theology and tradition, observing the Sabbaths and Feasts etc.
I am curious to know your interest, ZC - whether it is like the above or Messianic Jewish, Jewish, Kabbalah (ancient or new age) - etc.
All of which rests on the fundamental fact that without the Patriarchs and the Prophets, Christianity itself would make very little sense.
I can't imagine there are many Christians out there who have not read the Torah -- the Mosaic law of the first five books of the Old Testament otherwise known as the Pentateuch.
The word "torah" itself means "law" (turath).
Alamo-Girl, here's something I'm wondering about. You know how I love the classical Greeks, for "discovering" reason and "putting it on the map"; and thus, along with it, "natural philosophy."
The striking prophetic developments in Jerusalem were fairly contemporaneous with the noetic outburst in Athens. If we can say that the classical Greeks discovered the foundations of modern science, then I think we can equivalently say that the ancient Jews discovered the foundations of the historical method. The history of Western civilization tells us that both disciplines have been needful, even indispensable, to account for where we are now. Both science and history being "evolutionary developments." Or so it seems to me.
What alone stays the same always are God's Will and Truth, the "divine measure," according to which judgment is meted out, presaging the culling to come.
"People get ready, there's a train a-coming
You don't need no ticket, just get on-board...."
Thank you so much, dear sister, for your constant kind words of encouragement.