For Ezra had set his heart to study the Law of the LORD, and to do it and to teach his statutes and rules in Israel. I see the whole fivefold pattern here in this text about Ezra. Set your heart toward the Word of God = Read, Ruminate, Rememberize. Study it = Research. Do it...
The Samaritan woman said to him, “How is it that you, a Jew, ask a drink of me, a woman of Samaria?” (Jews do not share things in common with Samaritans.) Translations from AramaicLamsa BibleThe Samaritan woman said to him, How is it? You are a Jew, and yet you ask me for...
David Noel Freedman was a professor of History at UCSD where he held the Endowed Chair in Hebrew Biblical Studies. He was on the faculty of UCSD’s Judaic Studies Program and the Program for the Study of Religion.Part IHS: As you probably know, among your colleagues and friends you are ...
We could certainly go to many other places in Scripture to find how God expects his worshipers to respond, such as people falling on their faces in worship inNehemiah 8:6and raising their hands in worship inEzra 9:5. Throughout the Old Testament, when God's people won a battle, were...
Dr. John Bergsma does a good job of laying out the basic story that when we’re looking through the scrolls of all the different caves and all the Dead Sea scroll findings, we have all but one of the books that are found in a modern Jewish or Protestant Hebrew Bible. That’s going...
The traditional claim of Mosaic authorship for the Pentateuch first emerges in, and thus seems to have been fabricated for, a specific time—the 5thcentury BC religious reforms and scriptural canonization of the Torah under Ezra in the Persian period. This canonical view soon became authoritative...
Through its influence on the birth of both Christianity and Islam, the Hebrew Bible has changed history (for better and for worse).
I do see, however, that you didn’t distinguish between Hebrew and Greek, which makes comparing OT and NT books rather difficult if you want to compare length, given how on the one hand Hebrew is an agglutinating language, while Greek likes to multiply its articles for example. ...
“common”—dialect of Greek. The Old Testament was mostly written in Hebrew, although a few texts inEzra,Jeremiah, andDanielwere written in Aramaic. Early on, the Israelites would have written in an older form of Hebrew that we now call “paleo-Hebrew.” Sometime after the sixth century ...
One answer could refer to historical context. Most scholars who engagewith dating the final compilations of these books would date the Chronicler to aslightly later period than Leviticus.3Both are probably from the Persian Period,1David Janzen,The Social Meanings of Sacrifice in the Hebrew Bible:...