Category: Bible
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Staunch Russia First Proponent, Dmitri Medvedev, Decries West’s Russophobia, Calls for Destruction of Europe, late December 2024
Dmitri Medvedev, in his December 27, 2024, Telegram message suggests that it is in Russia’s best interests to ignore the United States, since the alternative would lead to an all-out nuclear war. On the other hand, Europe should be punished for its anti-Russia position by all means possible, into the mix of which would be…
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The Roar of War, The Roar of Death, and The Roar of Victory: The Eternal Son’s Roar Was Heard Once And Will Be Heard Once More – Are You Ready?
At some point in pre-history war was waged in the spiritual realm, which, although the outcome was preordained from eternity-past, has affected all of creation and will continue to do so until the last full measure of Yahwah’s wrath has been poured out on His created order that has been co-opted and turned against its…
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Franz Julius Delitzsch: 19th Century German Evangelical Theologian and Hebraist
As my studies in Biblical Hebrew progressed from language study, involving grammar, syntax, and linguistic ‘rules of the road’ peculiar to the language, to applying this knowledge practically, I began to study the Psalms exegetically. During the initial stages of studying the Scriptures in Hebrew, in my search for detailed explanatory exegesis of the text,…
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Psalm 14: “The Fool Has Said In His Heart, ‘There Is No God’.”
1למנצח לדוד For the director of music for David > Disclaimer: I rarely consult commentaries. Only when my translation doesn’t make sense or I just can’t begin to understand the meaning of a verse despite its being correctly translated do I refer to one, that of Delitzsch, whose commentaries are based on his analysis of…
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Psalm 12: Yahwah’s Pure Word Will Prevail Against the Haughty Assuredness of the Wicked
The Psalmist gives hope to the one trusting Yahwah’s Word in the face of the lies, half-truths, and the resulting hypocritical behavior of the wicked. Yet, at the same time, however, he paints a two-fold bleak picture of 1) the disappearance of men of steadfastness and loyalty and 2) the oppression and violence suffered by…
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The Hebrew Radical ‘Sook’ (שך/סך) as It Relates to the Birth of Yeshua (ישוע)
Another Christmas has come and gone. The decorations that adorned our house – the creche in the foyer; stuffed cloth gingerbread men keeping strategically placed Santa Clauses company; colored lights strung along the two sides of the staircase that meet the guests arriving for a progressive dinner-and-carols singalong; similarly-strung lights on the hutch in the…
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Psalm XI: For the Leader of Music, A Psalm of David – Assurance of Yahwah’s Love in Times of Trouble
This study of Psalm XI is based on my translation reflecting the Psalm’s syntax and punctuation. Franz Delitzsch’s commentary on the Psalms has been used as a reference. ביהוה |חסיתי איך תאמרו לנפשי נודיו הרכמ וצפור In Yahwah | I have trusted how will you (pl.) say to my soul flee* your (pl.) mountain bird[s…
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Book Review: God Was Not In The Fire – The Search For A Spiritual Judaism by Daniel Gordis
I began studying Biblical Hebrew seriously when the COVID-19 Pandemic forced a hiatus from the daily requirements of work and other mandatory activities. This enabled me to devote more time to other pursuits, one of which was the desire to gain a level of proficiency in biblical Hebrew, the primary language in which the Old…
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אבן העזר ואבן’ם לזכרון The Stone of Help and Stones of Remembrance: Bringing to Mind Yahwah’s Help and Goodness
Putting the Hebrew words first in the title is meant to illustrate how these two well-known phrases appear in the Hebrew text of the Old Testament. As many of you who read this post will know, Hebrew writing goes from right to left, which means that אבן העזר is the Hebrew phrase translated as ‘stone…
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“We Have Faith, They Have Religion”
Thus Russtrat director, Elena Panina, begins her May 5, 2023 opinion piece in which she reasons that Russia will prevail in Ukraine because the former is united under the rubric of ‘faith,’ i.e., that ‘God is on our side’ because of the justness of the cause under the banner of which the SMO [Special Military…
The Dragon is Slain 