The Masoretes

Wisdom makes one wise person more powerful than ten rulers in a city. Ecclesiastes 7:19 NIV Ten rulers – Most modern translations of the Hebrew Scriptures are based on a text complied by a group of rabbinic scholars called the Masoretes.  They worked between the 6th and the 10th Centuries CE in Tiberias and Jerusalem.  They…

LXX Alterations

That I not be full and deny You and say, “Who is YHWH?” or that I not be in want and steal, and profane the name of my God. Proverbs 30:9 Who Is YHWH? – The LXX (Septuagint) is the Greek translation of the Hebrew Scriptures.  Finished some 200 years before the birth of Yeshua,…

The Treasure Principle

Treasures of wickedness profit nothing; but righteousness delivers from death.  Proverbs 10:2 Nothing – How’s your portfolio doing?  Of course, for most of us that’s a pointless question.  We don’t have a “portfolio.”  We don’t have treasures stored up here on earth.  We live paycheck to paycheck.  In these times, there are a few more…