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Psalm 144, which follows Psalm 133 in the exquistie reproduction offered here by Biblical Reproductions, is marked “of David.” Seventy-three psalms altogether are thus identified in the Bible by a similar superscription (“of David,” “a psalm of David,” “of David. A...
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The Isaiah Scroll – Part III The portion of Isaiah’s prophecy offered here by Biblical Reproductions contains part of a historical description (Isaiah, Chapter 22) and part of a prophetic denunciation of the nations (Isaiah, Chapter 23) of the events in Judah in the...
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The Hebrew word /mezuzah/ (מזוזה) means doorpost, that part of the door frame that holds up the lintel. The reference is clearly to the twice-repeated commandment in the book of Deuteronomy to write the words of God “on the doorposts of your house and upon your...
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Another interpretation of “a song of ascents,” favored by many scholars and commentators, concerns the immediate structure of the Temple itself. Surrounded by a large courtyard, the Courtyard of the Gentiles, to which anybody could come, the Temple itself was defined...
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Part I – Who Was Isaiah? Twenty-two copies of the Book of Isaiah were found in the collection we know as the Dead Sea Scrolls, discovered in caves near Qumran, on the northern shores of the Dead Sea, in 1947 and afterwards. One of the copies (catalogued as...
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The writers of the book of Genesis were obviously aware of the literature and poetry of their day. Some of the tales and legends were Egyptian, but most of the literature that has survived was Assyrian, from the Fertile Crescent of the Tigris-Euphrates valley. There...
