The Hidden Bones Apocalypse: The Marker, Its Message, and their Hiddenness
There is an unusual phrase that occurs only fourteen times in the Hebrew Bible. Those fourteen occurrences mark the accounts of ten highly consequential days. The essential messages of those ten accounts, when taken together, create and convey a unified and coherent communication. The presence of th...
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| description | There is an unusual phrase that occurs only fourteen times in the Hebrew Bible. Those fourteen occurrences mark the accounts of ten highly consequential days. The essential messages of those ten accounts, when taken together, create and convey a unified and coherent communication. The presence of the phrase, its uniqueness to those days, and the message it creates, are hidden in translations. Readers of the biblical text in English, Greek, Latin, and German versions have no reason to associate the ten marked days. The phrase and its message are effectively hidden even from those who use the Hebrew text; having been obscured by the tradition of interpretation extending through rabbinic literature and commentary. The message created by reference to those ten marked days is representative of early Jewish apocalypse literature. This paper identifies and analyses the marker phrase, identifies the days that it marks, interprets the message created, demonstrates the hiddenness of that message, and argues its character as an apocalypse. |
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| spelling | doaj.art-c2e29fb02f8743e3b9fcaddc7c7e0adf2023-09-03T10:12:36ZengNoyam JournalsE-Journal of Religious and Theological Studies2458-73382023-03-019372133https://doi.org/10.38159/erats.2023931The Hidden Bones Apocalypse: The Marker, Its Message, and their HiddennessCharles R. Lightner0https://orcid.org/0000-0001-6511-0057Independent Scholar/Researcher, Westfield, New Jersey, USAThere is an unusual phrase that occurs only fourteen times in the Hebrew Bible. Those fourteen occurrences mark the accounts of ten highly consequential days. The essential messages of those ten accounts, when taken together, create and convey a unified and coherent communication. The presence of the phrase, its uniqueness to those days, and the message it creates, are hidden in translations. Readers of the biblical text in English, Greek, Latin, and German versions have no reason to associate the ten marked days. The phrase and its message are effectively hidden even from those who use the Hebrew text; having been obscured by the tradition of interpretation extending through rabbinic literature and commentary. The message created by reference to those ten marked days is representative of early Jewish apocalypse literature. This paper identifies and analyses the marker phrase, identifies the days that it marks, interprets the message created, demonstrates the hiddenness of that message, and argues its character as an apocalypse.https://noyam.org/wp-content/uploads/2023/03/ERATS2023931.pdfhebrew bibleapocalypsebible translationearly rabbinic literaturerabbinic commentary |
| spellingShingle | Charles R. Lightner The Hidden Bones Apocalypse: The Marker, Its Message, and their Hiddenness E-Journal of Religious and Theological Studies hebrew bible apocalypse bible translation early rabbinic literature rabbinic commentary |
| title | The Hidden Bones Apocalypse: The Marker, Its Message, and their Hiddenness |
| title_full | The Hidden Bones Apocalypse: The Marker, Its Message, and their Hiddenness |
| title_fullStr | The Hidden Bones Apocalypse: The Marker, Its Message, and their Hiddenness |
| title_full_unstemmed | The Hidden Bones Apocalypse: The Marker, Its Message, and their Hiddenness |
| title_short | The Hidden Bones Apocalypse: The Marker, Its Message, and their Hiddenness |
| title_sort | hidden bones apocalypse the marker its message and their hiddenness |
| topic | hebrew bible apocalypse bible translation early rabbinic literature rabbinic commentary |
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