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  No doubt much of the fascination that surrounds the religious group that produced the Dead Sea Scrolls has to do with the fact that they were

From the blog of Doron Perez at The Times of Israel

The year 2022 marks 75 years since the discovery of the Dead Sea Scrolls. John Currid explains how they were found and how they changed biblical studies forever.

The Origin of Satan Send to Google Classroom: X Satan, or the Devil, is one of the best-known characters in the Western traditions of Judaism, Christianity, and Islam. Surprisingly, this entity was a late-comer in the ancient world. Satan, as a totally evil being, is nowhere to be found in the Jewish Bible. He evolved during the height of the Persian Achaemenid Empire (beginning c. 550 BCE) and was adopted by Jews living under Persian rule at the time. His formal name, Satan, derives from the Hebrew ' ha-Satan'. ' Ha' means 'the' and ' Satan' means 'opposer' or 'adversary'. The name described...

    Publisher's note: This post is an installment of a multi part series on one man's perspective of the "mostly peaceful protest" at the our Nation's Capitol on January 6, 2021. of the posts in this series. "(1) For it is a time of distress for Isra[el, a fixed t]ime of battle against all the nations. The purpose of God is eternal redemption, (2) but annihilation for al1 nations of wickedness. All those pr[epared] for battle shall set out and camp opposite the king of the Kittim and all the forces (3) of Belial that are assembled with him for a day [of vengeance] by the sword of God"...