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Notes on Early Jewish Belief in a Messiah

The following is from some notes that I took in Professor Jim Davila’s class on the Dead Sea Scrolls this week. I sit in on this undergraduate class of his just to get more exposure to his great knowledge and expertise on this topic. The way the class is set up, at least at this [...]
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Most Ancient Hebrew Biblical Inscription Deciphered (Khirbet Qeiyafa)

Press Release: University of Haifa Most ancient Hebrew biblical inscription deciphered ‘It indicates that the kingdom of Israel already existed in the 10th century BCE, and that at least some of the biblical texts were written hundreds of years before the dates presented in current research.’ Prof. Gershon Galil of the University of Haifa who deciphered the inscription: “It [...]
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