by admin | May 8, 2018 | Browse All, Dead Sea Scrolls, Inscriptions, Qumran, Scrolls from the Judean Desert
We think we understand the Bible, but do we really? Take the first line of the first book; Genesis 1:1. The King James Version reads, “In the beginning God created the heaven and the earth.” Simple enough? But the matter is not so simple, because the original Hebrew,...
by admin | May 8, 2018 | Browse All, Dead Sea Scrolls, Qumran, Scrolls from the Judean Desert
The Dead Sea Scrolls have revealed to us that there were different manuscripts of Holy Scripture, including, of course, the Ten Commandments, in circulation during the last centuries BCE and first century CE; that is, in the time of Jesus. We learn that these...
by admin | May 8, 2018 | Browse All, Dead Sea Scrolls, Qumran, Scrolls from the Judean Desert
Translation of the Bible has traditionally been a difficult, controversial, and sometimes dangerous matter. For centuries, Church authorities suppressed any effort to translate the Bible at all, fearing that direct access of the masses to Divine Revelation would...
by admin | May 8, 2018 | Browse All, Dead Sea Scrolls, Qumran, Scrolls from the Judean Desert
The Ten Commandments form the basis of the moral code of the entire Western world. Given by God to Moses on Mount Sinai, they are recorded twice in the Bible; once in Chapter 20 of the book of Exodus, and again in the book of Deuteronomy, Chapter 5. These writings, as...
