Job — Introduction
…Ἰώβ (Iob) — ⚠ The Greek Septuagint of Job is about ONE-SIXTH SHORTER than the Hebrew — some four hundred lines missing…
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Jonah — Introduction
…JonahNinevehTarshishJoppaGath-hepher The source text Translated from the pointed Hebrew Masoretic Text (as printed by Mechon-Mamre), following the Hebrew…
Ecclesiastes — Introduction
…QoheletSolomonDavidJerusalem The source text Translated from the pointed Hebrew Masoretic Text (as printed by Mechon-Mamre). ⚠ The Hebrew of Ecclesiastes…
Song of Solomon — Introduction
…ᾎσμα ᾈσμάτων (Aisma Aismatôn) — The Septuagint keeps the Hebrew superlative exactly, and Latin followed with Canticum Canticorum — hence the older…
Zechariah — Introduction
…of the crudest words in the language, no ordinary dirt — while “the Accuser” (Hebrew ha-satan, WITH the definite article…
Habakkuk — Introduction
…HabakkukChaldeans (Babylon) The source text Translated from the pointed Hebrew Masoretic Text (as printed by Mechon-Mamre). ⚠ Habakkuk's Hebrew…
Revelation — Introduction
…They will hunger and thirst no more, sheltered by the one who will 'spread his tabernacle' over them, in language…
Zechariah 5
…The Masoretic Hebrew reads eynam, “their eye” — and Hebrew regularly stretches “eye” to mean “appearance” (the manna’s own “eye…
Ecclesiastes 1
…in the Hebrew Bible. The question of Ecclesiastes is therefore posed, from its third verse, in the language of a…
Joel 1
…The Hebrew runs 1:1–20, 2:1–27, 3:1–5, 4:1–21; English Bibles fold Hebrew chapter…
