Yonatan Adler
@yonatan.bsky.social
Archaeology and Early Judaism
Associate Professor
@arieluniversity
Author of:
The Origins of Judaism (Yale 2022)
Between Yahwism and Judaism (Cambridge 2025)
Associate Professor
@arieluniversity
Author of:
The Origins of Judaism (Yale 2022)
Between Yahwism and Judaism (Cambridge 2025)
Shabbat shalom!
(Trying to post weekly on the current Parashah. Let's see how long I can keep this up...)
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(Trying to post weekly on the current Parashah. Let's see how long I can keep this up...)
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October 24, 2025 at 2:19 PM
Shabbat shalom!
(Trying to post weekly on the current Parashah. Let's see how long I can keep this up...)
8/8
(Trying to post weekly on the current Parashah. Let's see how long I can keep this up...)
8/8
It would appear that this letter was meant to answer the acute quandary plaguing first-century communities of Gentile Jesus-followers as to whether they too should be observing the various dietary restrictions commonly adhered to by Jews.
7/8
7/8
October 24, 2025 at 2:19 PM
It would appear that this letter was meant to answer the acute quandary plaguing first-century communities of Gentile Jesus-followers as to whether they too should be observing the various dietary restrictions commonly adhered to by Jews.
7/8
7/8
...Only, you shall not eat flesh with its life, [that is,] its blood [אך בשר בנפשו דמו לא תאכלו].”
This instruction to Noah’s family, as the progenitors of all humanity, was apparently taken as applicable not only to Jews but to Gentiles as well.
6/8
This instruction to Noah’s family, as the progenitors of all humanity, was apparently taken as applicable not only to Jews but to Gentiles as well.
6/8
October 24, 2025 at 2:19 PM
...Only, you shall not eat flesh with its life, [that is,] its blood [אך בשר בנפשו דמו לא תאכלו].”
This instruction to Noah’s family, as the progenitors of all humanity, was apparently taken as applicable not only to Jews but to Gentiles as well.
6/8
This instruction to Noah’s family, as the progenitors of all humanity, was apparently taken as applicable not only to Jews but to Gentiles as well.
6/8
The source for the instruction in Acts seems to be God’s pronouncement in Gen 9:3–4 addressed to Noah and his sons: “Every moving thing that lives shall be food for you; and just as I gave you the green plants, I give you everything...
5/8
5/8
October 24, 2025 at 2:19 PM
The source for the instruction in Acts seems to be God’s pronouncement in Gen 9:3–4 addressed to Noah and his sons: “Every moving thing that lives shall be food for you; and just as I gave you the green plants, I give you everything...
5/8
5/8
Thus Philo (Spec. Laws 4:122), who condemned the decadent people who: “devise novel kinds of pleasure and prepare meat unfit for the altar by strangling and throttling the animals, and entomb in the carcass the blood which is the essence of the soul and should be allowed to run freely away.”
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4/8
October 24, 2025 at 2:19 PM
Thus Philo (Spec. Laws 4:122), who condemned the decadent people who: “devise novel kinds of pleasure and prepare meat unfit for the altar by strangling and throttling the animals, and entomb in the carcass the blood which is the essence of the soul and should be allowed to run freely away.”
4/8
4/8
...and from blood and from what is strangled [πνικτῶν] and from fornication. If you keep yourselves from these, you will do well.”
The meat of a strangled animal was likely regarded as infused with prohibited blood, as strangling kills the animal without shedding any blood.
3/8
The meat of a strangled animal was likely regarded as infused with prohibited blood, as strangling kills the animal without shedding any blood.
3/8
October 24, 2025 at 2:19 PM
...and from blood and from what is strangled [πνικτῶν] and from fornication. If you keep yourselves from these, you will do well.”
The meat of a strangled animal was likely regarded as infused with prohibited blood, as strangling kills the animal without shedding any blood.
3/8
The meat of a strangled animal was likely regarded as infused with prohibited blood, as strangling kills the animal without shedding any blood.
3/8
...Gentile Jesus-following communities of Antioch, Syria, and Cilicia.
The end of the letter (verses 28–29) reads:
“For it has seemed good to the Holy Spirit and to us to impose on you no further burden than these essentials: that you abstain from what has been sacrificed to idols...
2/8
The end of the letter (verses 28–29) reads:
“For it has seemed good to the Holy Spirit and to us to impose on you no further burden than these essentials: that you abstain from what has been sacrificed to idols...
2/8
October 24, 2025 at 2:19 PM
...Gentile Jesus-following communities of Antioch, Syria, and Cilicia.
The end of the letter (verses 28–29) reads:
“For it has seemed good to the Holy Spirit and to us to impose on you no further burden than these essentials: that you abstain from what has been sacrificed to idols...
2/8
The end of the letter (verses 28–29) reads:
“For it has seemed good to the Holy Spirit and to us to impose on you no further burden than these essentials: that you abstain from what has been sacrificed to idols...
2/8
Many thanks Eddy!
I completely agree that this could/should be the subject of a serious documentary.
I had been in contact with a few people about this but nothing panned out.
If you're interested in raising the gauntlet, I'd be more than happy to discuss!
Feel free to write: yonatanadler@gmail.com
I completely agree that this could/should be the subject of a serious documentary.
I had been in contact with a few people about this but nothing panned out.
If you're interested in raising the gauntlet, I'd be more than happy to discuss!
Feel free to write: yonatanadler@gmail.com
October 23, 2025 at 5:39 PM
Many thanks Eddy!
I completely agree that this could/should be the subject of a serious documentary.
I had been in contact with a few people about this but nothing panned out.
If you're interested in raising the gauntlet, I'd be more than happy to discuss!
Feel free to write: yonatanadler@gmail.com
I completely agree that this could/should be the subject of a serious documentary.
I had been in contact with a few people about this but nothing panned out.
If you're interested in raising the gauntlet, I'd be more than happy to discuss!
Feel free to write: yonatanadler@gmail.com
He was off by 243 years, and one month (as is well known).
October 23, 2025 at 5:35 PM
He was off by 243 years, and one month (as is well known).
🙏
I hope you enjoy!
I hope you enjoy!
October 23, 2025 at 10:32 AM
🙏
I hope you enjoy!
I hope you enjoy!
Link to the interview with Neal:
www.youtube.com/watch?v=JFin...
Link to the book (download it now for free!):
www.cambridge.org/core/element...
www.youtube.com/watch?v=JFin...
Link to the book (download it now for free!):
www.cambridge.org/core/element...
Between Yahwism and Judaism
Cambridge Core - Ancient History - Between Yahwism and Judaism
www.cambridge.org
October 23, 2025 at 9:53 AM
Link to the interview with Neal:
www.youtube.com/watch?v=JFin...
Link to the book (download it now for free!):
www.cambridge.org/core/element...
www.youtube.com/watch?v=JFin...
Link to the book (download it now for free!):
www.cambridge.org/core/element...
Wonderful to hear!
Thank you so much, Samuel.
Thank you so much, Samuel.
October 23, 2025 at 8:24 AM
Wonderful to hear!
Thank you so much, Samuel.
Thank you so much, Samuel.
You are too kind!
Thank you so much 🙏
Thank you so much 🙏
October 23, 2025 at 8:23 AM
You are too kind!
Thank you so much 🙏
Thank you so much 🙏