Wednesday, May 24, 2006
Noachide, Noahide, Noachism, and then some.
I've been trying to write up something on Noachism lately, that is God's covenant with all mankind, in parallel with His covenant with Isreal. An email I got a while back got me ineterested in writing about it. The problem has been, everytimte I research it in order to write some on it, I feel disconnected from it. I'm not sure whether it is because of its simplicity, it being somewhat obvious/a given, or that it has been so much a part of me that I can't separate myself enough from it in order to write objectively about it.
Reading through article after article on the Noahides ("God-fearers" in the 1st-century term), my mind kept returning to what a friend of mine had written on the subject. So, in order not to repeat something that has already been written quite well, here are some posts by provoked about his decision to choose Noachism...
The Logic of Choosing Judaism...
And what I believe is a wonderful follow up...
A Dismisive Critique...
And for a more Jewish perspective, I recommend The Root and Branch Association.
