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A.K.A. The “Toxophilus”   The competitive archer has the intent to hit the bull’s eye (Boulesthai] and must do so by marrying himself/ herself to the ballistics which make the shot ‘true’. Ballistics are based on power, velocity, windage, trajectory, projectile weight, etc. “Ballistics” comes from the word, “Boule”. The

Ecclesiastes  1:9 – “That which has been is what will be That which is done is what will be done And there is nothing new under the sun. Is there anything of which it may be said, ‘See, this is new’?“   Ecclesiastes  3:15 – “That which is has already

I use the term, “Church”, as interchangeable with “Christendom”.  That is, the New Testament Greek: “he-Ekklektos”, or “she Bride-called-out”.  Such a title can only mean, “a Bride to the Groom (Christ)”, if one is to apply our relation to Christ via Jewish customs to the Greek language and its newly

The all too natural ancient etymologies of God’s “epithets” “Gud God, Holy Cow, What kind of Heavenly Cheese? 3 Main Epithets: Epithet 1 (“God”) One of the earliest sentient cultures of great intelligence was (and STILL IS!) the Kartuli culture. This Kartuli or Kartvelian  culture gave the Sumerians a relationship

Happy and Sad/ Kob and Satis 2 Terms to know: 1) *Happy*: Proto Indo European: “Kob” = ‘met to the desire of one’s wants to make *happy*’; ‘to suit, fit, succeed’; Old Norse: ‘chance, good luck (allotment)’/ Middle English: ‘chance, fortune’ 2) *Sad*: Old English: “saed” = ‘sated’, full, having

Genesis 11:1: “The whole earth had (yahiy: had; become; be; becoming) one ‘language’—and there were very few WORDS (Dabhar)1 in those days”. WHOLE EARTH In the Hebrew of Genesis 11:1 we have: “Kal (entire) Ha (the)  Erotz (earth) Shephah (speak/spoke) Echad (one) va (and) DABARIYM (**stone of order/ law/ justice/

In Genesis 8:2 we begin the process of the waters abating. A full chapter is given up to the existence in the ark until the first contact made to soil in Genesis 9. Genesis 9:20 tells us that Noah was the first tiller of the ground. Hence, Genesis 9:20 gives

What is the Garden of Eden? Is *Eden* a physical location, state of mind, Heaven, …all the above? PHYSICAL LOCATION In the physical sense we do have a ‘fix’ on its name and location as the Hebrew gives us by name:*Gan-Ba-Eden*. The redacted Hebrew name, “Gan (garden) ba (in) Eden”,

Preface In this article, I try to extract and amplify what is already set in the Hebrew text of Job. Job’s story might very well reach back beyond 4 millenia to make it the oldest book in the Bible. Therefore, the time tested story of Job exceeds in antiquity that of the Mosaic

The first 2 Declinations of Job   Job as a Righteous Man Job 1:1-22 -” 1  There was a man in the land of Uz, whose name was Job; and that man was perfect and upright, and one that feared God, and eschewed evil. “ISH” (NOM.MS.SING.) =A MAN/ “HAYAH” (QAL PERFECT

Before I address Job chapter 3, I need to recap the seemingly quirky nature of Job 1 and 2 as a ‘necessary evil’. Both chapters were ‘set up’  to distill key elemental players into their proper places within the story or narration of Job.  These players or idolum (a term so brilliantly

The story of Job was initially a pre-Biblical-Mesopotamian story. The account of Job, or “Ayub”/ “Iyob”/ stood the test of time before landing into the canon of the Old Testament. The same message we find in the book of Job is found all throughout Mesopotamia. As for my opinion, I