by admin | May 7, 2018 | Browse All, Popular
Or, Perhaps Something Else? The /mezuzah/, traditionally affixed to the doorposts of the house by most Jews, contains two passages from the book of Deuteronomy — 6:4-9 and 11:18-20 — enjoining the faithful to write the words of God “on the doorframes of your house and...
by admin | May 7, 2018 | Browse All, Dead Sea Scrolls, Inscriptions, Media
Israel on Tuesday announced an ambitious new project aimed at finally piecing together some of the thousands of fragments of the 2,000-year-old Dead Sea Scrolls that have mystified experts since their discovery in the 1940s and 1950s. The $1.75 million project aims to...
by admin | May 8, 2018 | Browse All, Metal, Popular
We learn from these two amulets that people—at least some people—chose to refer to God by the more intimate term YHWH (יהוה). These four letters are unpronounceable and untranslatable. This anomaly stems from the fact that biblical Hebrew is written with only...
by admin | May 8, 2018 | Browse All, Dead Sea Scrolls, Qumran
Targum of Job (11Q10) The book of Job is by far the most difficult book in the Bible. The Hebrew in which it is written is as difficult and complex as the Hebrew of Genesis is easy and straightforward. This is because Job is a late book; most scholars put its...
by admin | May 8, 2018 | Browse All, Dead Sea Scrolls, Qumran
Part IV – The Isaiah Scroll The passage of the Isaiah Scroll offered by Biblical Reproductions, from Isaiah, chapter 22, is a fairly straight-forward account of fortification work done by King Hezekiah in the days of an Assyrian threat against Judah in the late eighth...
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Enoch Fragment (4 Q201-821) A fragment of the book of Enoch was found in Cave 4, the library of the Essene community of Qumran. This piece has been exactly reproduced and is offered here by Biblical Reproductions. Enoch was the son of Cain (Genesis 5:21-24) who did...
