Ancient books were often were named by their first word. Thus, the book many call Genesis, is called in Hebrew, Bereshit, ‘In the Beginning’, after the first word in Genesis. For those who like to measure by counting, Bereshit is the longest of the five books in the Torah, with 20, 512 of the 79,847 Hebrew words; [...]
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If We Were to Focus Solely on God We Could Be Ignoring Those in Need
November 8th, 2009 · No Comments · bible
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The Edict of Milan
September 5th, 2009 · No Comments · bible, christian history, history
As those who know me know, I have become very interested in the archaeology of the Bible. By Bible, I mean the Hebrew Bible. My personal opinion is that faith is just that, faith. To me, faith does not have to be ‘proven’ by the historicity of religious texts or disproven by the lack of same. My [...]