DR. BENJAMIN D. SOMMER | THE PLURITARIAN AND FLUID GOD OF ISRAEL | JEWISH MONOTHEISM | THE TRINITY!!

Published 2022-04-08
Benjamin D. Sommer (Hebrew: בנימין זומר; born July 6, 1964) is an American biblical scholar and Jewish theologian. He is a Professor of Bible at The Jewish Theological Seminary of America and a Senior Fellow at the Shalom Hartman Institute. He is a former director of the Crown Family Center for Jewish Studies at Northwestern University.

Sommer's research encompass areas of biblical theology, history of Israelite religion, and modern Jewish thought. He is the author of A Prophet Reads Scripture: Allusion in Isaiah 40-66, The Bodies of God and the World of Ancient Israel, and Revelation and Authority: Sinai in Jewish Scripture and Tradition.

Sommer was elected to membership in the Biblical Colloquium in 2014 and to membership in the American Academy for Jewish Research in 2017.

00:00:00 Introduction
00:01:45 How Dr. Sommers book came to be
00:16:19 "Fluidity of Divine Self-Hood"
00:23:10 What constitutes "Monotheism"?
00:28:57 Exodus 23:20-22 as Example
00:33:13 God appears as "Human"
00:37:30 Are these Jewish "fringe groups"?
00:42:02 What is "Intra-Deical Dynamism"?
00:52:20 Unknowability & Allegories
01:01:00 Continuity of the Old and New Testament!
01:07:03 Thoughts on "Progressive Revelation"
01:10:40 Jewish background of N.T. Authors.


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All Comments (21)
  • @ChildofGod315
    Thank you for your words of encouragement. No matter what I’m facing in my life I won’t let go of Jesus! I keep crying out asking for prayers because, I know our prayers are stronger together so please pray for me. I’m struggling to provide for my two autistic children since losing my job over not getting the vaccine. I have pre existing health condition (Lupus) and Heart disease. I’m on a bunch of medications including blood thinners. My husband passed away three years ago, so I’m all alone. Both of my sons are non verbal so things are more difficult for me. I don’t know how we are going to make it through. This month we are facing homelessness. Every month is a struggle. We have nowhere to go. I’m so embarrassed of my situation. I’ve been put down and mocked over my circumstances. It’s hard to hold my head up, I’m not going to lie. BUT NO MATTER WHAT. I have Faith that God will provide! Faith over Fear! I believe.
  • @clarekuehn4372
    The Trinity is in the New Testament all over, just not named. Pray for this man's conversion. Kabbalah is radically different, but yes has fluidity: Kabbalah and Sufism are magic and Gnostic.
  • An eye opening glimpse into Jewish history and into how the idea or notion of the Deity came to be such an important part of both Jewish and Christian theology.Superb!
  • @orthodoxbasics
    Wel ook echt oprecht en eerlijk van hem om te erkennen dat het idee van Drie-eenheid niet zo raar is volgens het vroegere Jodendom en de Bijbel. Respect
  • @oekmama
    Great interview ! Thank You. Your channel just popped up, thanks algorithm!😅 and I‘m looking forward to seeing more of your content.
  • @Nakdimon316
    Gaat goed bro, met de subs. Goed interview! 👍
  • Very good interview. There definitely needs to be more engagement within Orthodoxy with Jewish scholarship. I think another great point of discussion is the area of the developing mysticism with both Judaism and Christianity. Archbishop Alexander Golitzin has created a great road in that area, but this should be continued. It'd be nice to see an interview with the Archbishop on this. Great content bro!
  • @GamePhyisician7
    Great stream brother! Please do more interviews with scholars. Can you interview Tom Holland? He is a historian who wrote the best-selling book 'Dominion' which tells how Christianity transformed Western Civilisation.
  • @halleluyah60
    Thank you, very interesting topics. I just wanna add that the trinity is not a possibility of a manifestation of God or just fluidity. It was clear from the beginning that God aka his visible "part" aka 2.person must incarnate as human to be the 2nd adam to be the sacrificial lamb for humankind, to reverse and we could be forgiven.... The 2.person of the trinity is visible God who walked in eden with adam and eve, who was on mount sinai,who had hand and fingers, who was seen in the fiery bush, the theophanies as men with Abraham and Gideon and who was the "Angel of the Lord" who then incarnated as Jesus Christ in real flesh and bear Gods name as the only human ever...... Thats why we pray to the father in the name of the Son Jesus Christ or ... in the name of the Father the son the holy spirit because all are one. And Jesus was the only human ever who was also God. But the Son is Through the Father. The Son is the radiance of YHWH's Glory, he is the Word of the Father, YHWH who never will be seen and never will be grabbed by human mind, but we had and will see and grab the "Son" in the OT and NT. .