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Let’s journey back to the time of King Solomon, or Shlomo in Hebrew, a figure so central to Jewish history and lore. The Book of Ben Sira, a work of wisdom literature from around t...
We all know the story: Moses goes up the mountain, gets the Ten Commandments, and comes back down. But what if there was more to the story? What if the Bible we know is just a glim...
It’s not just a vague "they went off and settled," but a detailed allocation. We find a fascinating, if somewhat cryptic, account in the Book of Jubilees. This ancient Jewish text,...
We all know the story: humanity, once united in language and purpose, dared to build a tower reaching for the heavens. God, seeing their hubris, scattered them across the earth, co...
There's more to it than just geography, you know. Sometimes, stories – powerful, ancient stories – are woven right into the very fabric of the land. We find one such story in the B...
Today, we're diving into the Book of Jubilees, a fascinating ancient Jewish text that expands on the narratives in Genesis. It's considered apocryphal by many, meaning it's not par...
It tells us, plainly and powerfully, that "Abram was very glorious by reason of possessions in sheep, and cattle, and asses, and horses, and camels, and menservants, and maidservan...
That unsettling feeling is something Abraham, our ancestor, knew all too well. Let's look at a particularly vivid scene from the Book of Jubilees, a text that expands on the storie...
The scene is set. God is speaking, promising judgement upon the nation that will enslave Abraham's descendants. But it doesn’t end there. There’s a promise of liberation, a return ...
