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Ox Head Or Nah?

The paleo Phoenician-Canaanite-Byblian, Old Aramaean, and Moabite alphabetic scripts have a unique letter ‘aleph, in the shape of an ox head, where the vertical stroke crosses two diagonal strokes at or very close to their apex. However, on the inscribed artifacts of genuine “Israelite” manufacture, whether pre-exilic or post-exilic, the first letter of the paleo […]

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The Father of Modern Hebrew Lexicography Was Also A Freemason

Heinrich Friedrich Wilhelm Gesenius was born February 17, 1786, Nordhausen, Hanover, and died October 23, 1842, Halle, Prussia. Gesenius was a German biblical critic and the father of Hebrew lexicography and grammar, as well as an important figure in other Semitic language studies. Gesenius was educated at Helmstedt and at Gottingen. In 1811 he became

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Greek 101

You can write the Father’s holy name in any language and always capture the correct pronunciation, so long as you know what you’re doing. When His name was written in Greek, by people who knew what they were doing, the three letters ΙΑΩ (iota, alpha, omega) were used. That’s all you needed. The Father’s name

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