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Numbers

Related Posts on this site: The text and slide contents below are from Lesson 7, Wandering in the Wilderness of Bart Ehrman’s Finding Moses series at BSA. Bart Ehrman’s Intro paragraphs After spending eleven months receiving the law at Mount Sinai, the children of Israel are instructed to move on to the Promised Land. But it will […]

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Pentateuchal Law Codes

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In Lecture 6 of Bart’s Finding Moses course, he presented slides related to law codes believed to have been in circulation prior to writing the Pentateuch, notable kinds of laws, and other information. The audible file and the PowerPoint file of slides from that lecture are in the “Bart Ehrman Lg Files” directory of the […]

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The DSS & John the Baptist – WAC page 454

Although there is no firm evidence linking John the Baptist with the Qumran community, many scholars believe that he had contact or even links with the Essenes during his ministry. There are four reasons for this assessment. (1) John’s family background and lineage fit with the beliefs of the Qumran covenanters. The report that he […]

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