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What is Rosh Hashanah? Rosh Hashanah (Hebrew: רֹאשׁ הַשָּׁנָה, “The Head [of] the Year”), the Jewish New Year, is a two-day celebration, which begins on the first day of the Jewish month Tishrei (usually falling…
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Who Was Melchizedek? (3)
“Hidden Savior” Pattern This article concludes our analysis of 11QMelchizedek. As we have seen in our previous posts, this whole text presents an eschatological scenario of the coming judgment. In this sense,…
Who Was Melchizedek? (2)
Melchizedek as a Transcendental Savior We continue our discussion of one of the oldest and most astonishing documents discovered at Qumran, the fragment called 11QMelchizedek. In our last article, we saw that…
Who Was Melchizedek? (1)
The Mysterious Figure People often wonder who Melchizedek was. Some believe he was Noah’s son Shem reincarnated; others that he was an angel; early church fathers taught that he was the pre-incarnation of Jesus, and…
Biblical Portraits: Rebecca – Finale
What most people don’t realize The story that we are dealing with – the story of the “stolen blessing” – as with every other narrative, can be looked at from the different…