Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu walks with U.S. President Donald Trump and Israeli President Isaac Herzog at Ben Gurion International Airport, amid a U.S.-brokered prisoner-hostage swap and ceasefire deal between Israel and Hamas, in Lod, Israel, Oct. 13, 2025. (OSV News photo/Evelyn Hockstein, Reuters) After Donald Trump’s praise in Israel, theologians warn against mythologising the US president. The comparison with Cyrus the Great after the hostage release is theologically and politically questionable. Biblical scholars have criticised religious praise of US President Donald Trump in Israel. Irmtraud Fischer, Professor of the Old Testament in Graz, told the Catholic News Agency…
