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    LOOKING FOR ISAIAH

    The temple and temple worship Herod’s temple represented the house of the Lord and was the center of Israelite worship as legislated in the Old Testament and enhanced by centuries of Jewish tradition.[17] Temple worship consisted of a complex series of sacrifices and offerings that could only...
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    LOOKING FOR ISAIAH

    Herod’s temple mount Solomon’s temple and Zerubbabel’s temple, including the Hasmonean additions, were confined to the top of the hill called Mount Moriah, bounded on the east and south by the Kidron Valley and to the west by the Tyropoean Valley. The temple faced east toward the Mount of...
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    LOOKING FOR ISAIAH

    Herod’s Temple (ca. 20 BC–AD 70) Herod (reigned from ca. 40–4 BC) was one of the great builders of antiquity; his goal in rebuilding the temple was to create one of the most magnificent buildings in his day and in the process to try to please his subjects, the Jews. Herod began to build his...
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    LOOKING FOR ISAIAH

    The Second Temple/Zerubbabel’s Temple In ca. 539 BC Cyrus the Persian conquered Babylon and granted permission to the Jews along with other exiled peoples living in Babylon to return to their homes. Cyrus granted the Jews permission to take back to Jerusalem the temple vessels that had been...
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    LOOKING FOR ISAIAH

    The Temple of Herod | Religious Studies Center The Temple of Herod David Rolph Seely The First Temple/Solomon’s Temple After King David conquered Jerusalem, Solomon built his splendid temple in ca. 966 BC (1 Kings 5–9 and 2 Chronicles 2–4) on the top of a hill that was was...
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    What is the Bible about?

    - If Jesus himself says so in his model prayer, it is so! - Maybe you know better than Jesus! - It's not my case! - That's why we are where we are! - That's also why people and religions have hidden God's name! - So People, not knowing the meaning of God's name, misinterpret the Bible! - And...
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    What is the Bible about?

    Textual variants in the Book of Deuteronomy - Wikipedia Here we can see differences in the translation of the book of Deuteronomy! Especially between the Westminster Leningrad Codex written in Hebrew and Brenton's translation of the Septuagint (from Greek to English)...
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    What is the Bible about?

    1) Codex Sinaiticus Codex Sinaiticus - Wikipedia The Codex Sinaiticus (Shelfmark: London, British Library, Add MS 43725), designated by siglum א‎ [Aleph] or 01 (in the Gregory-Aland numbering of New Testament manuscripts), δ 2 (in the von Soden numbering of New Testament manuscripts), or...
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    What is the Bible about?

    Septuagint manuscripts - Wikipedia. List of Septuagint manuscripts[edit] There are currently over 2000 classified manuscripts of the Septuagint.[6] The first list of Septuagint manuscripts was presented by Holmes and Parsons. Their edition ends with a full list of manuscripts known to...
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    What is the Bible about?

    Septuagint | biblical literature Septuagint, abbreviation LXX, the earliest extant Greek translation of the Old Testament from the original Hebrew. The Septuagint was presumably made for the Jewish community in Egypt when Greek was the common language throughout the region. Analysis of the...
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    What is the Bible about?

    Leningrad Codex Leningrad Codex - Wikipedia The Leningrad Codex (Latin: Codex Leningradensis [Leningrad Book]; Hebrew: כתב יד לנינגרד) is the oldest complete manuscript of the Hebrew Bible in Hebrew, using the Masoretic Text and Tiberian vocalization. According to its colophon, it was made...
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    What is the Bible about?

    Old Testament Manuscripts In this follow up to the last post, we discuss important manuscripts (hand-written copies) of the Old Testament. *** The Oldest Manuscripts of the Old Testament The original manuscripts (the autographs) written by the sacred authors themselves are no longer extant...
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    What is the Bible about?

    Someone says: This is just a red herring. As I said before, “let all angels of Godworship Him,” along with ALL other OT quotes in the NT, were plucked directly from the Septuagint, which was completed during the “intertestimonial” period, also known as the “second emple period”. Dead Sea...
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    What is the Bible about?

    - Faith only?
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    What is the Bible about?

    Biblical Dead Sea Scrolls - 4Q39 Deuteronomy There are 32 scrolls containing the book of Deuteronomy! And among these 32 scrolls, there is only one who is about 32:43! That is the following one! 4Q44 Deuteronomyq Language: Hebrew Date: 50-1 B.C. Location: Qumran...
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    What is the Bible about?

    Dead Sea Scrolls - Wikipedia Dead Sea Scrolls The Dead Sea Scrolls (also the Qumran Caves Scrolls) are ancient Jewish and Hebrew religious manuscripts discovered between 1946 and 1956 at the Qumran Caves in what was then Mandatory Palestine, near Ein Feshkha in the West Bank, on the...
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    What is the Bible about?

    Someone says: Why should I when you make such a simple matter so complicated with such a wall text? All OT quotes in the NT were based on Septuagint, it's the most authentic and accurate version of the OT Scripture. The Mosaretic Scripture, on the other hand, was compiled centuries later...
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    What is the Bible about?

    (1.) Because indeed there are no such words in the original text, nor any thing spoken that might give occasion to the sense expressed in them; but the whole verse is inserted in the Greek version quite beside the scope of the place. Now, though it may perhaps be safely granted that the...
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    What is the Bible about?

    Does Hebrews 1:6 quote Deuteronomy 32:43? When trying to show that the KJV is not an accurate translation, it will often be asserted that the KJV is in error in Deuteronomy 32:43 The KJV reads: Deuteronomy 32:43 Rejoice, O ye nations, with his people: for he will avenge the blood...
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    What is the Bible about?

    My answer: studylight.org/lexicon/eng/greek/4352.htm Bible Lexicons Strong's #4352 - προσκυνέω from (G4314) and a probable derivative of (G2965) (meaning to kiss, like a dog licking his master's hand) Thayer's to kiss the hand to (towards) one, in token of reverence...