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Moses: The Private Man Behind the Public Leaderby J. Daniel Hays Moses’ Egyptian Nameby Ogden Goelet Moses: From Vigilante to Lawgiverby William H.C. Propp Why Moses Could Not Enter The Promised Landby William H.C. Propp In Death as in Life: What the Biblical Portraits of Moses, Aaron and Miriam Shareby Erica S. Brown
Continue ReadingLilith in the Bible and Mythology – Connections between Lilith, Adam’s first wife, and Jadis, the White Witch of Narnia Lilith – Seductress, heroine or murderer?
Continue ReadingHow did the Church decide which books to include in the New Testament? When was the decision made? By whom? The surviving evidence unfortunately does not provide answers in the detail we would like, but it does document a number of the developments that eventually produced the New Testament as we know it. Bible Review […]
Continue Readinghttp://www.textexcavation.com/synopticlistedinventory.html This inventory lists every passage or pericope present in any of the synoptic gospels, Matthew, Mark, and Luke, whether extant in only one of them, in two of them, or in all three. I also provide an itemized inventory that breaks down each passage into phrases, or items. https://www.gospelparallels.com/gospelparallels.html The Synoptic Gospel Parallels with John Continued […]
Continue Reading“In some ways—oddly enough—the more than 200 biblical manuscripts in Hebrew found among the Dead Sea Scrolls have elevated the authority of the Greek Septuagint at the expense of the Masoretic text, the received Hebrew version preserved by the Jewish community for 2,000 years. Nevertheless, there is reason to believe that the received text had […]
Continue ReadingGood discussion of the ancient texts, Hebrew use of consonants, and how the Dead Sea Scrolls have helped clarify passages. https://www.baslibrary.org/bible-review/15/4/11
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Continue Readinghttps://www.baslibrary.org/bible-review/9/2/17 “How did the Church decide which books to include in the New Testament? When was the decision made? By whom? The surviving evidence unfortunately does not provide answers in the detail we would like, but it does document a number of the developments that eventually produced the New Testament as we know it.“
Continue Readinghttp://lawrenceschiffman.com/resources/websites/ Below was extracted from that page. The Dead Sea Scrolls and Why They Matter DeadSeaScrolls.com The Great Isaiah Scroll The Orion Center for the Study of the Dead Sea Scrolls and Associated Literature Scrolls From the Dead Sea: The Ancient Library of Qumran and Modern Scholarship West Semitic Research Project Center for Online Judaic […]
Continue Readinghttp://originsofchristianity.net/ The Origins of Christianity is a portal that tries to take you back into the ancient world where Christianity was born. The site was built in coordination with a course (CL C 3503: The Origins of Christianity) offered at the University of Oklahoma. The course is taught by Professor Kyle Harper.
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