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The pictographic system which many call Paleo-Hebrew is actually Proto-Sinaitic. Yoel walks us through the history and development of the Hebrew script, distinguishing between theory vs. actual evidence of a pictographic precursor to Hebrew.
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“I will make you into a threshing-sledge, new, with sharp, pointed teeth, to thresh the mountains and crush them to dust, to reduce the hills to chaff.”
When do you know when biblical text is literal or metaphoric? We look at how to understand biblical metaphors and idioms with this week’s haftarah in Isaiah 40 and 41.