As I described in my podcast, Time (Part 1), we are still at the toddler stage of human history and development. The Ark of the Covenant (yes, the one from Raiders of the Lost Ark) and the plan for a giant traveling Tent to house God’s presence, are all tangible word pictures th...
1r), which contains ownership notes, a list of psalms for each day of the week and a Midrashic fragment. He copied the names of the Dessau Psalter’s owners, ‘Shimʿon bar Yuda’ and ‘Yaʿaqov bar Shimʿon’, at the top of the first folio of his Psalter, after which he ...
entitled, “Tattoos – The Ancient and Mysterious History”, this form of body marking has been found on mummies dating back as far as the famous, frozen 5,200 year-old “Iceman”, a mummy found in the area of the Italian-Austrian border in 1991.(1) Ms. Lineberry...
Full size table The final subsystem of SPEECH FUNCTION classifies the type of MOVE utilized in an interaction. Thus, an exchange begins with a move, i.e., one of the participants produces an utterance which is a single semantic unit, a quantum of exchange in the interaction, and any such...
love for the antagonist, preparedness to suffer, and no fear of death. All these aspects are embodied by the Gandhian Daniel. Gandhi emphasized the active role of Daniel as a resister, not the traditional view of the victim of court intrigues. In this paper, I argue that the image of th...
It's an interesting argument, but the challenge is that the Greek "sea" in the Septuagint may be a plausible translation for the Hebrew word translated as "Tarshish" in the KJV. It would seem unlikely that scribes would lose one term of three in both the Greek and the Hebrew. If a ...