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'Scripture' is a label and a lens that we apply to a text after the fact.

I wish I had my grandfather's Torah. Treat it with care (as I'm sure you do). I would still highly recommend picking up the Plaut Torah and Commentary mentioned above. I have accumulated a number of Torahs and Tanachs, and Plaut is typically my 2nd go-to resource - the 1st being the 5 volume...

If you say so ...

Thank you, Jane. I will consider the book. But, from the quote immediately above, this text, however interesting, was obviously not the source of your previous claim. So, again, could/would you cite two or three example supporting your claim concerning "the 'covenant' which all Big Gods (across...

This is certainly not my understanding from what I've read. See, for example, Frank Moore Cross and Mark S. Smith. Could you perhaps cite two or three examples?

May I ask which one?

Just a quick post to wish the Muslims here a sincere Ramadan Mubarak. Shalom/Salaam ...

So is willful ignorance. And, I'm not at all angry.

You came here to learn? Seriously? Marcialou, do you own a Torah? Rather than dismiss your sages as "small children", why don't you make an adult effort to understand what you so readily demean? For what it's worth, I'd recommend Plaut. Finally, since you appear to be so enamored by your...

Have you ever actually taken the time to study Torah commentary? Or do you simply prefer to demean it with shallow opinion?

Perfect … :)

Absolute rubbish.

Now that was a brilliant statement! Of course, you have yet to demonstrate how and why being a civil contract makes it any less a marriage. It's interesting how you assiduously avoid going beyond proclamations of dogma. :)

No. Any scroll, and any translation which also contains the Hebrew (Masoretic) text, will reflect the Tetragrammaton. Substituting 'Adonai' is simply a convention, i.e., one reads the Tetragrammaton but says 'Adonai' or 'Lord'. See Tetragrammaton: Usages and translations: Judaismand, more...

It's called inference to best explanation. Get over it. :rolleyes:

Why is that the case?

Let me help. The stunning, peer-reviewed scholarship can be found here. :D

Just for the record: from Wikipedia … How special that we have finally discovered, in this very forum, an expert on the deepest secrets of this script.

Absolute rubbish.

The Sh'ma comes from Deuteronomy 6:2 …שְׁמַע, יִשְׂרָאֵל: יְהוָה אֱלֹהֵינוּ, יְהוָה אֶחָד.Adonai is a word substituted for the Tetragrammaton, i.e, it is not the word found in the text. A minor point:Eloheinu is not the word for god but, rather, the word for "Our-God" (much as avoteinu is the...