Truth in Mikra

Tag: #Tanakh

  • When was it first known that the earth was round?

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    The Hoosac historian

    This belief is dying but for a long time people thought that it was the voyage of Columbus that taught us the world is round. The second wrong theory which has been known by educated people for many many centuries if not millennia is that ancient Greeks first discovered this. 5th century B.C. In the 5th…

  • Books left out of the Bible part II

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    The Hoosac historian

    What about extra Biblical Rabbinical literature like the Talmud or the Zohar or the Alpha-Bet of Ben Sirach. So that is very nuanced and so lets start with the Talmud.So what is the Talmud?Is the Talmud a commentary on the Torah? That is the Midrash that is a commentary on the Torah,the Talmud came from…

  • What about reading books excluded from the Bible?

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    The Hoosac historian

    Then you are asking the wrong question,you want to ask ,”which books excluded from the Bible are ok to read”? Although the Jewish cannon with the exception of smaller traditions ,the mainline Orthodox Jewish canon is uniform.The Christian Canon varies a bit more.The Roman Catholic and Eastern Orthodox churches have book in the old Testament…

  • Was the King James Bible written in Old English

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    The Hoosac historian

    People often say the KJV was written in old English and in a sense yes was written in an archaic form of English (Jacobian English would be the technical term) but not old English.The King James version of the Bible or KJV for short was written in 1611 and that version went out of print…

  • Who were the wives of Shem,Yefet(Japheth) and Cham(Ham)

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    The Hoosac historian

    This will be a discussion on the daughters in law of Noah and who they were and most information on them comes from the Ge’ez Ethiopic text of Book of Jubilees.If you own that please have it handy. Lets start with the wife of Yefet (Japheth) who according to Genesis is the oldest (Gen 10:21)…

  • Kingdoms of Yishmael II

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    The Hoosac historian

    7.Mas’a ,in Hebrew meaning tribute or burden ,this Arabian tribe living in the northern Arabian desert towards Babylonia. Mas’a The records of Tiglath Pileser III mention the inhabitants of Mas’a and Tema, who paid him tribute. On the summit of Jebal Ghunaym, located about 14 kilometers south of Tayma, archeologists Winnett and Reed discovered some…

  • And who is Yishmael and his 12 kingdoms?

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    The Hoosac historian

    Sarai the wife of Avram was unable to bear children ,so here in Gen 16:3-15 (Tree of Life) “ 3 So Sarai, Abram’s wife, took her slave-girl Hagar the Egyptian—after Abram had lived ten years in the land of Canaan—and gave her to Abram her husband to be his wife. 4 Then he went to Hagar and she became…

  • Are we to live by law or faith

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    The Hoosac historian

    The basic word in the Torah for commandment is mitzvah מצוה ,but what does mitzvah really mean? What does mitzvah mean? (From Chabad.org) “In common usage, a mitzvah often means “a good deed”—as in “Do a mitzvah and help Mrs. Goldstein with her packages.” This usage is quite old—the Jerusalem Talmud commonly refers to any charitable act…

  • Is Yeshayahu/Isaiah 52-53 about Jesus?

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    The Hoosac historian

    Tree of Life Version (TLV) Isaiah 52 (Tree of Life Version) Ma Navu: The Song of Salvation 52 Awake, awake!Clothe yourself in your strength, Zion!Clothe yourself in beautiful garments, Jerusalem, the holy city,for the uncircumcised and the unclean    will never invade you again.2 Shake off the dust and arise!Be enthroned, Jerusalem.Loose the bonds off your neck,    captive Daughter of Zion.…

  • 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…