Truth in Mikra

Tag: #Bible

  • בראשית B’reishit/Genesis 1 and what is true and what false!

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    The Hoosac historian

    How should Genesis 1 be understood and I will argue that it should be viewed a literally as possible.Let us start with the basics and the Greek word Genesis which means beginings as does the Hebrew word b’reishit mean literally “from the head” but in practical terms also means beginnings as well.Now let us look…

  • What about Halloween??

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    The Hoosac historian

    I guess we will start with “Samhain”(pronounced likely as “sa’win”)and means “end of summer” in a proto Celtic type language. It was a festival marking the end the summer and the begining of the darker part of the year,starting on november 1st but like most ancient calendars the day was sunset to sunset much like…

  • Gaza

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    The Hoosac historian

    Amos 1:6-7 כֹּה אָמַ֣ר יְהֹוָ֔ה עַל־שְׁלֹשָׁה֙ פִּשְׁעֵ֣י עַזָּ֔ה וְעַל־אַרְבָּעָ֖ה לֹ֣א אֲשִׁיבֶ֑נּוּ עַל־הַגְלוֹתָ֛ם גָּל֥וּת שְׁלֵמָ֖ה לְהַסְגִּ֥יר לֶֽאֱדֽוֹם: וְשִׁלַּ֥חְתִּי אֵ֖שׁ בְּחוֹמַ֣ת עַזָּ֑ה וְאָֽכְלָ֖ה אַרְמְנֹתֶֽיהָ: “Thus the Lord says:For three crimes of Azah/Gaza and for four I will not return them,for they exiled a whole population giving them over to Edom. But I will send fire to the…

  • Who was Na’amah נַעֲמָה

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    The Hoosac historian

    So who was Naamah? Gen 4:-22 Lamech had two wives Adah and Zilah and Zilah who had two children a son Tuval Cain the inventor of metal tools and weapons.Zilah had a daughter Naamah (these are from the line of Kayin/Cain). The name Naamah meand pleasant or delightful or pleasing. First question is was Naamah…

  • Was there a world before Adam and Chavah(Eve)

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    Has anyone heard the claim of a world before Adam or the pre Adamite world theory.So a Jurassic world era where dinosaurs lived and angels lived in the earth with the dinosaurs.But then the war heaven as per Revelation 12:7 happened at that point and so the Jurassic world was destroyed in a pre flood…

  • The other side (what is evil)

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    We will discuss the concepts of evil however I will not try to get inside the minds of evil but explain it’s scriptural meanings.The question asked by many of why does an all powerful and benevolent God allow evil to exist.I do history,etymology and factual things and am not a theologian or a spirtual leader…

  • Oldest Torah text writers II

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    Let us put to bed with evidence the theory of a late writing of the Pentateuch in part II.We ended part 1 with Deuteronomy and we will begin 2 with Deuteronomy. For more in depth on this you can find many articles on this subject with a google search on the title.In 2021 they found…

  • The original Torah and writers and who were they?

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    Did Moses take the whole Torah on Mt Sinai or was it written in the Davidic era by several authors.I think most people have heard of the J,E,P,D test theory with the oldest thread being likely a female from the court of Somomon/Shlomo which would dates to the 10th century(900’s) BCE.This is the J text…

  • The generations of Adam and it’s meaning

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    This will be about simply Adam to before Noah ,things after Noah have been thoroughly covered in Babel and the flood blogs. Adam ,the first human creation of God and his name means “Of the red soil” ,Adam comes from adamah meaning soil/clay/dirt from the word “adom” meaning red because the soil was red ,so…

  • Flood II

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    Fossils of sea creatures found far from the ocean or any saliant sea.Sea creature fossils have been found in the Grand Canyon as well and tropical vegitation has been found in the stomachs of Wooly Mamouths in cold weather climates but here is a citation on the Himalayas. “The mighty Himalayas, also known as ‘The…