Tag: dead sea scrolls
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The Book of Enoch Giants: The Lost Book That Names Them
They were enormous and they ate people — that is the part everyone knows. The part nobody knows is that a second book about…
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The Seventy Weeks of Daniel: The Arithmetic, Laid Out
A prophecy with a start, a unit and a count. Three decrees it could run from, two lengths of year, and the awkward fact…
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Adam’s First Wife: The Lilith Story Has One Source
The first wife, the refusal, the exile – all of it enters the record in a single medieval book of proverbs that half the…
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The Book of Jasher: Three Books, One Name, None of Them It
The Bible cites it twice and no copy survives. What the lost book probably was, why the medieval Sefer haYashar is not it, and…
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The Book of Jubilees: Fifteen Copies and the Wrong Calendar
Qumran held more copies of Jubilees than of Kings. What the book says, the 364-day calendar it was willing to split a nation over,…
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The Dead Sea Scrolls: The Gap That Got Filled
For eighteen centuries the claim that the text came down unchanged was untestable. Then a shepherd threw a rock into a cave – and…
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How Tall Was Goliath? The Number That Grew
The oldest manuscripts say six foot nine, not nine foot nine. Why the difference matters, what the Rephaim actually were, and the one giant…
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Who Was Enoch? The Man Who Never Died
Genesis 5 lists the patriarchs and every entry ends the same way: and he died. On the seventh entry the ledger simply stops. Who…