Why isn't the Book of Enoch in this translation?
…There's no Masoretic Hebrew text of Enoch to translate from; it doesn't survive complete in Hebrew…
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Fifty-Two Weeks, No Remainder
…Philosophy of Science and Ideas, published in the Hebrew-language quarterly *Tarbiz*, takes a position on one of…
Article ·What is Yom Kippur, and what does the Bible actually call the Day of Atonement?
…the Hebrew grammar in verse 8 sets it directly against “Jehovah” — one proper name paired with another — which…
Article ·Was Noah's Ark a box or a boat? What Genesis says versus the ship-shaped replica in Kentucky
…Hebrew word Genesis uses for the ark, *tevah*, means a chest or box — not any of Hebrew's…
Article ·One Hebrew word in Isaiah 7:14: what does *almah* do elsewhere?
Isaiah 7:14 turns on one Hebrew word, *almah* (עַלְמָה). Here is how the word behaves when you line up its other appearances. By the usual count it occurs seve
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Genesis 11
…In Babylon's own language, Bab-ili means "Gate of God" — the city's proud self-designation. The Hebrew storyteller…
Genesis 10
…From these the coastland peoples spread out into their lands, each with its own language, by their families, within their…
Acts 6
…Hebrew of Hebrews’), neither yet on these pages. The usual reading takes the first group as Jews whose language was…
Daniel — Introduction
…it opens in Hebrew (1:1-2:4a), switches to ARAMAIC — the international language of the empires — for 2:4b…
Hosea — Introduction
…HoseaGomerJezreelSamaria The source text Translated from the pointed Hebrew Masoretic Text (as printed by Mechon-Mamre). ⚠ Hosea's Hebrew is…
Ezra — Introduction
…the administrative language of the Persian empire — a feature this translation will mark where it falls. The Hebrew elsewhere is…
Isaiah — Introduction
…About the book Where it sits The first of the Latter Prophets in the Hebrew canon, before Jeremiah and Ezekiel…
Psalms 23
…Put "soul" beside "restore" and English produces a Platonic sentence — an inner spirit repaired — that the Hebrew simply does not…
Zechariah 3
…From the crudest possible word for what comes off to one of the rarest words in the language for what…
Hebrews — Introduction
…Looking forward Hebrews holds one of the New Testament's highest Christologies, and states it in the language of PRIESTHOOD…
