Charles R. Lightner

This piece was written for an annual series of earth-related teachings published during the Hebrew month of Elul. Included in “Earth Etudes for Elul” 5782 “And the giants began to kill men and to devour them. And they began to sin against the birds and the beasts and creeping things and the fish, and to devour one another’s flesh. And they drank the blood. Then the earth brought ac...

The manuscript of The Hidden Bones Apocalypse is now complete. It presents several important ideas in the field of Hebrew bible study: The recognition that the special marker phrase conveys a single, coherent communication, The recognition that the communication is an apocalypse, The understanding of the need for its hiddenness, The identification of its creator as the a...

Without naming them, or identifying them as such, we’ve discussed in prior posts the three main approaches to moral philosophy. 1. In discussion of the virtue-building systems of Aristotle and Benjamin Franklin we have presented and briefly discussed examples of Virtue, or ontological philosophy. 2. In discussions of the Ten Commandments, the Seven Noahide Laws, the Five (and Ten) ...