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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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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...
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Fifteen of the 150 psalms found in the Bible — Psalms 120-134 — are labeled “a song of ascents”. The English translation accurately reflects the Hebrew שיר המעלות, which means simply a song of ‘going up’. The question occupying many commentators has been, going up...
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The discovery of a room on Masada they could confidently call a synagogue caused great excitement in the scholarly world. It had long been believed that the synagogue, an institution in which Jews prayed, was a later invention, created after and because of the...
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The mezuzah, contains the following verses from the book of Deuteronomy which observant Jews write on a scroll and affix to the doorposts of their houses and rooms. The passages are: ^4 Hear, O Israel: The Lord our God, the Lord is one. ^5 Love the Lord your God with...
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The texts of the Psalms in the Dead Sea Scrolls were more or less the same as the texts we know today, but the order in which they were presented was different. In this exquisitely reproduced piece offered here by Biblical...
