Truth in Mikra

Tag: #Torah

  • 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…

  • 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…

  • 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…

  • 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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    The Hoosac historian
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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…

  • 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…