by admin | May 8, 2018 | Browse All, Dead Sea Scrolls, Qumran
The Book of War is one manuscript in the collection known as the Dead Sea Scrolls, a library of about five hundred documents first discovered in 1947-1948, along the shores of the Dead Sea, mostly near the ancient settlement of Qumran. Most scholars believe the...
by admin | May 8, 2018 | Browse All, Dead Sea Scrolls, Qumran
Part II -The Isaiah Scroll The Prophet who wrote chapters 1-39 of the book of Isaiah was a Jew living in Jerusalem during troubled times. This was a period (735-732...
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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...
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The man who discovered the Temple Mount Inscription, Charles Clermont-Ganneau, is our link to the story. He was in Jerusalem in 1868, serving as dragoman — translator and interpreter — for the French Consulate, when a startling discovery was reported from...
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What was “the deep” over which lay darkness? How deep was it and what was it doing there before Creation? Good questions with surprising answers. It turns out that “the deep” was originally named after a goddess! Her name was Tiamat, and she was the goddess...
