Author: Matt
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אלה/אל el/elah Strength, Power, Authority, and Goddess of Love?
Read More →אלה Goddess of Love and War “And Complete One (“Solomon”) is walking behind Ashtoret, goddesses [elohai] of the Hunters (“Tsidonim”)…” (1 Kings 11:5 RBT) “For the reason that they have let go of myself, and they have bowed themselves down to Ashtoret, goddesses [elohai] of the Hunters (“Tsidonim”)…” (1 Kings 11:33 RBT) In Canaanite mythology, […]
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The Masoretes: “What is Read and What is Written” or, Changing 1326 Words and adding 1,362,195 Marks
Read More →The Masoretes, Jewish scribes and scholars active from the 6th to the 10th centuries AD, are credited with developing a system aimed at preserving the pronunciation, interpretation, and accurate transmission of the Hebrew Bible. Their efforts altered the course of Bible history. Their work has ultimately perpetuated centuries of incorrect readings, interpretation, and conjecture. The […]
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The Translation Venture That Defied the Norms
Read More →Most translation projects typically make slight variations in renderings but generally remain within the same reading and traditional context. Many also lean heavily on the Masoretes’ vowel pointing system, which dates back to the 7th-10th century. Even modern grammarians, spanning the last few centuries, have relied on the Masoretes’ vowel pointing (called niqqud). This project, […]
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Genesis 3:17, “within a lamenting one they eat…”
Read More →ו ל אדם אמר כי שמעת ל קול אשתך ו תאכל מן ה עץ אשר צויתיך ל אמר לא תאכל ממנו ארורה ה אדמה ב עבורך ב עצבון תאכלנה כל ימי חייך And he has spoken to the Man, “Because you have heard the voice of the woman of yourself and you are eating of […]
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The true harrowing nature of bible translation, or “when in doubt, sacrifice the woman.”
Read More →It goes without saying that delving honestly into the sacred texts means playing the “devils advocate” and the saying “the devil’s in the details” is more true here than most would realize. The body of scholars and scholarly literature formed over a couple of millennia testify to the reality that it isn’t just “delving into” […]
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The “Mystery” Pronoun הִוא: One of the Oldest and Greatest Translation Scandals against the Woman in the Book
Read More →The Serpent that Cheats Eve, Also Credits Her φοβοῦμαι δὲ μή πως, ὡς ὁ ὄφις ἐξηπάτησεν Εὕαν ἐν τῇ πανουργίᾳ αὐτοῦ, φθαρῇ τὰ νοήματα ὑμῶν ἀπὸ τῆς ἁπλότητος καὶ τῆς ἁγνότητος τῆς εἰς τὸν χριστόν. 2 Corinthians 11:3 And I fear lest how the Serpent cheated/tricked Life-Giver (“Eve”) within the Manipulative One of himself, the […]
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שיח Hagar’s “Shrub”
Read More →And the dual water is being completed from out of the Waterskin, and she is throwing the eternal self Boy below one of the Complaining ones. Genesis 21:15 RBT Hebrew שיח was conjectured to be a “bush”. It is from the verb root שיח, to muse, complain, talk, murmer. (Cf. #7878) “Bush” or “shrub” was pure conjecture, […]
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דבר – To Align Words in a Row and יהוה אלהים
Read More →What is Word? Hebrew דבר dabar #1696. To align words, put in a row. #1697, a word. Hence the aligning of letters in a row: w-o-r-d to create “word.” The word “logos” (λόγος) originates from ancient Greek. In Greek philosophy and theology, “logos” has rich and varied meanings, including “word,” “reason,” “thought,” or “principle.” It […]
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If a word occurs thousands of times, it must be a “particle” right?
Read More →את (eth) 11,000 occurrences “eternal self” or “untranslatable particle of accusative”? אשר דבר (asher dibber) “which he spoke” or “he spoke straightly”? אשר (asher) 5,500 occurrences. Particle of relation or, “straight”? These words are among the top four or five most frequent in all of the Hebrew text. Eth is the most frequent of all. […]
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ישראל Israel (or rather Yishrael) – God has Made Straight
Read More →And he is saying, “Heel Chaser (“Jacob”) is not saying the name of yourself going around/iterating again, but rather God Has Straightened (“Israel”)! For you have contended in company with mighty ones and in company with mortal men, and you are overcoming!” Genesis 32:28 RBT The Hebrew name “Yisrael,” Strong’s #3478, is traditionally thought to […]