One Hebrew word in Isaiah 7:14: what does *almah* do elsewhere?
…Hebrew has a separate, more specific word, *betulah*, which the Hebrew Bible also uses of young women. Then…
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Why does this translation say “Jehovah”?
…Most Bibles say ‘the Lord.’ Why does this one print ‘Jehovah’? And isn’t the Hebrew name really…
Article ·Why isn't the Book of Enoch in this translation?
…the Bible?" This project's source text has been the **Masoretic Hebrew Bible** — the Tanakh, pointed Hebrew and…
Article ·Did Isaac Newton write about the Bible?
…He read Hebrew and Greek, collated manuscripts, drew up chronologies, and worked over Daniel and Revelation the way…
Article ·How long were the days of creation?
…the Bible and the age of the earth aren’t at war?” **The short answer.** The Hebrew word…
Article ·Fifty-Two Weeks, No Remainder
…None of this is the Hebrew Bible prescribing a 364-day calendar; the biblical texts are considerably vaguer…
Article ·What is Yom Kippur, and what does the Bible actually call the Day of Atonement?
…What does the Bible actually call it, and where does the Day of Atonement ritual come from?” **The…
Article ·Was Noah's Ark a box or a boat? What Genesis says versus the ship-shaped replica in Kentucky
…But I always thought the Bible describes the ark as basically a big rectangular box. So which is…
Article ·Was the Word "God," or "a god"?
…The Son *receives* it, and angels are commanded to give it (Hebrews 1:6; and Thomas: "*my Lord…
Article ·Why don't Jehovah's Witnesses accept blood transfusions — and what just changed?
…taken for the last forty-five years — the Bible names blood itself as off-limits, but says nothing…
Article ·Could anyone alive today be descended from Cain?
*“Cain Leads Abel to Death” — James Tissot, c. 1896–1902, from his Old Testament series. The Jewish Museum, New York; public domain, via [Wikimedia Commons](htt
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Joel — Introduction
…English Bibles fold Hebrew 3 into 2 (Hebrew 3:1-5 = English 2:28-32) and renumber Hebrew 4 as…
Psalms — Introduction
…verb of Genesis 1:1, which across the whole Hebrew Bible takes ONLY God as its subject. No human ever…
2 Chronicles — Introduction
…Hebrew 2 Chronicles 1 has eighteen verses where English Bibles have seventeen — Hebrew 1:18 is English 2:1 — and…
1 Chronicles — Introduction
…As with Samuel and Kings, it is ONE book in the Hebrew Bible; the split into 1 and 2 is…
Hosea — Introduction
…The last of them takes the covenant formula apart, and then goes further than any English Bible shows: the Hebrew…
Esther — Introduction
…no fragment of Esther has been found at Qumran — the only book of the Hebrew Bible entirely absent there — the…
Malachi — Introduction
…In the Hebrew Bible the Writings follow the Prophets, so Malachi is not the final word there; the Christian arrangement…
Job — Introduction
…About the book Where it sits Among the WRITINGS (Ketuvim) in the Hebrew Bible; in the Christian Old Testament it…
2 Samuel — Introduction
📜 Table of Contents › 2 Samuel 📖 2 Samuel שְׁמוּאֵל ב Shemuel Bet — '2 Samuel.' In the Hebrew Bible…
Isaiah — Introduction
…The poetry is the most sustained and formally ambitious in the Hebrew Bible, and its imagery (vineyard, highway, water in…
