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byfaithmedia · 29 days

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Discover the wonder of the secrets of King Herod’s Temple from ancient carvings to beautiful gold from 2,000 years ago.

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theradicalscholar · 11 months

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📜✨ The discovery of the Dead Sea Scrolls in the mid-20th century was a groundbreaking event in biblical archaeology. These ancient texts, dating back to the 2nd century BCE, were found near the Dead Sea, close to the Qumran site. The scrolls have provided invaluable insights into the religious and historical context of the time...📚🔍

🔬 SCHOLARLY EXAMINATION: UNLOCKING THE MYSTERIES 🔎 In the “scrollery,” a dedicated room for this purpose, experts meticulously worked on deciphering the texts written in four different languages: Hebrew, Aramaic, Greek, and Nabataean. The scrolls offer a captivating glimpse into the linguistic diversity of the time. Discover the fascinating language and script distribution within the Dead Sea Scrolls...

📖 PUBLICATION: UNVEILING HIDDEN KNOWLEDGE 🗞️ Physical Publication And Controversy: Initially, access to the scrolls was tightly controlled, but efforts to make them more widely accessible have been made...

🌟 IMPACT ON SCHOLARSHIP: ILLUMINATING ANCIENT TEXTS 🌟 The discovery and analysis of the Dead Sea Scrolls have revolutionized biblical scholarship, expanding our understanding of ancient Jewish texts and the evolution of the Hebrew Bible. Insights include:

1️⃣ Understanding Textual Development: Variations and fluidity in ancient biblical traditions. 2️⃣ Insight into Second Temple Judaism: Daily lives, rituals, and theological perspectives of Jewish communities. 3️⃣ Interactions with Other Ancient Traditions: Connections to neighboring cultural and religious traditions.

🔍🔬 CONCLUSION: PRESERVING THE PAST, SHAPING THE FUTURE 🌌✨ The Dead Sea Scrolls continue to captivate scholars, enriching our understanding of biblical history and the ancient world...The legacy of the Dead Sea Scrolls lives on, inspiring future generations to delve deeper into the mysteries of the past. 🕯️💡

Stay tuned for more enlightening discoveries and ancient wisdom, exclusively from The Radical Scholar! Follow us for updates. 📚✨

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ramrodd · 3 months

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The genius of this episode of the Archelogy of Jesus is that Dr. Tabor totally validates Richard Bauckham's Jesus and the Eye witnesses. This video overlay's Bauckham's topology perfectly, It's one of those areas where dialectical Marxism is the perfect template,

The only mistake Baulkham makes is that it is Cornelius's mind map and not Peters.

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eli-kittim · 3 years

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Is Jesus a Jew?

By Author Eli Kittim

The term “Jew” means one of two things: either a “Jew” by religion, irrespective of one’s race, or a “Jew” by race, irrespective of one’s religion. The only category that can properly address Jesus’ *ancestry* is the second one, namely, a Jew by race, irrespective of one’s religion!

The term “Jew” is an abbreviation of the term “Judah” (Ioudaios” in Greek), and it implies a *descendant* from the tribe of *Judah.* There were only 2 tribes in the kingdom of Judah—-namely, the tribes of Judah and Benjamin (Ezra 1:5)—-which alone, strictly speaking, represent the term “Jews.” Therefore, anyone who is from a different race/region cannot be technically called a “Jew.” Case in point: Jesus is a *Galilean* (Mk 1:9; Mt. 3:13; 4:15-17; 21:11), not a Judaean! It is well known amongst Biblical scholars and archaeologists that Galilee was heavily influenced by Greek culture. The scholar & Oxford classicist G.A. Williamson states that Galilee “was entirely Hellenistic in Sympathy.” He says that all of these facts are well-known to Christian scholars, yet they insist that “Christ was a Jew”. John’s gospel 7:41-43 confirms that Christ is from Galilee of the Gentiles, which infuriates the Jews because Jesus defies Jewish messianic expectations. John 7:52 describes the Jews’ rejection of a Gentile Messiah, when saying, “Search, and see that no prophet arises out of Galilee” (cf. Mt 4:15-16)!

The gospel genealogies prove nothing with respect to Jesus’ ethnicity. According to Bible scholar Bart Ehrman, the genealogies of Matthew & Luke are contradictory and don’t give us any historical evidence. Not to mention that both are explicitly based on Joseph, who is NOT Jesus’ biological father. As Mike Licona asserts, these genealogies are compositionally more theological than historical. Bottom line, we cannot rely on them to give us the historical pedigree of Jesus.

Thus, according to the internal & external evidence, Jesus is not a Jew; he’s a **Gentile**!

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What language would Jesus have spoken?

According to Bart Ehrman, studies show that only 3% of the population was literate in the land of Israel in the first century c.e. One would have to be a highly literate scholar to understand Hebrew, the language of the Scriptures. Most Bible scholars assume that the common language of the people was Aramaic. Thus, they conclude that Jesus would have spoken Aramaic.

That may have been the case in Palestine centuries earlier, but, largely due to the influences of the Hasmonaeans and the Herods, it appears as if Aramaic had entered a period of decline during the time of Jesus. The notion that Jesus spoke Aramaic has recently been challenged by Greek New Testament linguists (see Stanley E. Porter, “Did Jesus Ever Teach in Greek?”, Tyndale Bulletin 44.2 [1993] 199-235 https://tyndalebulletin.org/article/30458-did-jesus-ever-teach-in-greek.pdf Bart Ehrman himself admits that he’s not sure if Paul (Jesus’ contemporary) knew Aramaic. And there’s no archaeological evidence to support Aramaic as the dominant language in first century Palestine, especially in Galilee. The Herodian coinage is inscribed exclusively in Greek, not Aramaic. Currency is a good indicator of the language of a nation. African currencies are in African languages. Similarly, the currencies of the UK & the US are in English, and so on and so forth. In other words, you cannot have a currency in one language and a verbal communication in another (e.g. a national currency inscribed in Greek within an Aramaic speaking community is a contradiction in terms).

What is more, only 12% of the Dead Sea Scrolls were written in Aramaic! Remember that the community at Qumran fled the metropolitan areas that had become more or less Hellenized. So, the Essenes represent only a tiny fraction of the population that kept the traditions alive, including the Aramaic works. Moreover, the entire New Testament was originally written in Greek, not Aramaic, signifying the widespread use of Greek in first century Palestine. There is important literary evidence to substantiate this view. For example, the historian Flavius Josephus wrote in Greek, which is also the language of the Septuagint!

The internal evidence supports this view. For example, the literary Jesus supposedly speaks Aramaic "Eli Eli Lama Sabachthani?" and no one seems to understand him. They thought he was calling Elijah. If Aramaic was the everyday language of the people they would’ve understood what Jesus meant.

Which languages did Pilate write on the inscription above the cross? Was Aramaic one of them? No! In what language did Jesus converse with Pilate? How many languages did Pilate know? Greek and Latin. So was the conversation between them in Aramaic? Most definitely not! And, according to Bart Ehrman, there is no indication that they used an interpreter. Thus, the *literary narratives* of the New Testament also suggest that Jesus would have spoken Greek!

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museummixtape · 5 years

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outskirtspress · 3 years

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rajrichard · 3 years

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The credibility of the Bible has been further augmented by archaeological discoveries in the year 2020. Here’s a list of five significant biblical archaeological discoveries in 2020.

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most-interestingthings · 4 years

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byfaithmedia · 5 months

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The oldest Bible verse ever found is 2,600 years old and is the Priestly Blessing of Numbers 6:22-27. This was found in a forgotten and undisturbed tomb outside of the heart of Jerusalem, probably in the tomb of a priest from the First Temple Period.

Watch full episode: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=owUadJcOFCk&list=PL-5wD3YoYRly41StkQgvvOsD-b-QcsR7M&index=2

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aboutanancientenquiry · 2 years

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Herodotus and the “Levant”

I am informed that there is in some quarters on this site discussion about Herodotus as source for the “Levant” (modern day Palestine, Israel, Lebanon, Syria). Now, it is true that in his Histories, structured around the main theme of the rise of the Persian Empire and of the Greco-Persian Wars, Herodotus does not focus much on this particular area. Still, he provides some useful information on the “Levant” during the Saite period of Egypt and under the Persians.

I have found on this subject two articles of the late Israeli distinguished specialist of ancient N. East Anson F. Rainey.

The first has as title “Herodotus' Description of the East Mediterranean Coast” and can be found on https://www.jstor.org/stable/1357657?read-now=1&refreqid=excelsior%3Af43d7a40f4f26b39d41a80e0f30eb563&seq=3 .

According to the opening paragraph of this article:

“Sources for the geography of the eastern Mediterranean littoral, today often called the Levant, are quite scarce for the Persian period. Although there are some references to the “Satrapy Beyond the River” (eber nari ...) in Akkadian and Aramaic documents (Rainey 1983), there is very little data on the geography and ethnography of that satrapy (cf. Aharoni et al. 1993: 130-32, map 171). Therefore, a special importance attaches to the description of the historian Herodotus of what he calls the “Fifth Satrapy” of the Persian Empire. Of course, the Persians did not number the satrapies in that number; Herodotus was numbering them from the point of view of one looking from Greece eastward. In view of some striking parallels among Late Bronze, Iron Age, and Hellenistic sources concerning the division of the Levant (Rainey 1996), it may prove instructive to review Herodotus’ description in the light of such sources.”

And according to its abstract:

“Herodotus' description of the East Mediterranean coastline is seen to reflect socioethnic and political arrangements in effect since the Late Bronze Age which continued through the Iron Age and into the Hellenistic period.”

The second article has as title “The Satrapy Beyond the River” (i.e., the Persian satrapy which comprised Syria and Palestine) and can be found as pdf on https://gospelstudies.org.uk/biblicalarchaeology/pdf/ajba/01-2_051.pdf

In the texts of both these articles of A. F. Rainey it is confirmed that Herodotus gives some reliable and useful information on the “Levant” of his era.

It is also shown in these articles of the same author how true scholarship does not reject a priori and with fanaticism ancient sources on the basis that an author is foreign to the culture under study or that the same author is “a Greek liar” and by definition unreliable. On the contrary, they show how sound scholarship tries without prejudices to combine sources of various origins in order to shed more light on periods of history about which there is not much documentation.

#herodotus #ancient greek classics #levant #anson f. rainey

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andersontheology · 5 years

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A Week in Review: 2/3/2019-2/9/2019

What is new at Anderson Theology this week:

Apologetics page updated.

Biblical Archaeology page created.

Biblical Archaeologists page created.

Biblical Theology page updated.

Biblical Greek page updated.

Biblical Texts page created.

The Nicene and Post-Nicene Fathers (A.D. 325-600) page updated.

St. Jerome (c. A.D. 345-420) page created.

Sozomen (early 5th century) page created.

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andrewallenreynolds · 4 years

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The entrance to Hezekiah's Tunnel in the city of David.

Hezekiah's Tunnel was carved beneath the City of David at the time of the Assyrian invasion to bring water into Jerusalem (2 Kings 20:20; 2 Chronicles 32:2–4).

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rajrichard · 3 years

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Recently, for the first time in more than 60 years, additional Dead Sea Scroll parchments were discovered. The discovery of the Dead Sea Scrolls in the mid-1940s was among the greatest archaeological discoveries of the 20th Century. What was discovered now and what is the significance of this discovery?