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Did Israel Invent Yahweh?

El, the Exodus, and the God Who Came from Sinai

…pponent was using, the essential argument was familiar: the different divine names in the Pentateuch betrayed different sources and an earlier history lying behind the Bible’s finished account. What was new was hearing the subject return through my son, not as an old forum argume…

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Does Isaiah 7:14 Really Prophesy a Virgin Birth?

Matthew, the Hebrew word almah, and a sign whose meaning reaches beyond Ahaz

…one event. The ancient tradition about the translators belongs specifically to the Greek Pentateuch, and the remaining books were translated at different times. We do not need the inflated claim. The narrower historical fact is enough: a pre-Christian Jewish translator of Isaiah…

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Isaac, Not Ishmael

The covenant son and the sacrifice that points to Christ

…textual witnesses actually establish The Masoretic Hebrew text names Isaac. The Samaritan Pentateuch names Isaac. The ancient Greek Septuagint names Isaac. The New Testament quotes the Isaac promise and interprets the sacrifice through Isaac. A fragment from Qumran designated 8QG…

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