By C. J. Labuschagne
Have been you intrigued, yet disenchanted through The Bible Code?
Labuschagne's ebook isn't the paintings of an beginner, yet used to be written by means of one among Europe's best biblical students and offers with some of the most very important contemporary discoveries within the box of biblical learn, particularly that the books of the Bible are numerical compositions. The biblical writings weren't written in an off-hand demeanour, yet have been meticulously composed in keeping with compositional thoughts within which the counting of phrases performs a very important position. It is going with no announcing that this discovery has far-reaching results for our perspectives at the formation and the constitution of the textual content of the Hebrew Bible and of the Greek textual content of the hot testomony.
The writer introduces the reader to the attention-grabbing global of quantity symbolism in biblical instances, he demonstrates how famous symbolic numbers, reminiscent of 7 and 12, and particularly the lesser recognized holy numbers 17 and 26, which symbolize the numerical worth of the identify YHWH, have been used to offer constitution to the textual content and to deepen its contents.
Among different interesting findings, this learn confirms the medieval Jewish culture that Holy Scripture comprises the identify of God set in succession, or interwoven within the textile of the text.
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Then He said to him (verse 5b);15 and Abram’s response (verse 6); 5. And He said to him (verse 7); and Abram’s response (verse 8); 6. And He said to him (verse 9); and Abram’s response (verses 10–12); 7. And He said to Abram (verse 13). In the next passage, Gen 15:17–21, the author used a different formula (verse 18) to introduce God’s covenant with Abram, in order not to disturb this manifestly designed seven instances of introductory formulas. ” 16 The extra divine speech formula does not disturb the even course of the text when we read it, because it has a clear function in the context: to give Abram the time to look at the stars before God resumes and speaks about Abram’s descendants.
It cannot escape our notice that this number corresponds to the number of divine utterances in Genesis 1, which we examine in greater detail below. 4 The structure of the ten divine utterances introduced by the stereotyped formula “God said” in the Creation narrative was used by the author of the Tabernacle passage as a model to give structure to the material in Exodus 39. What we have here is yet another allusion to the analogy between the work done by Moses in regards the Tabernacle, and God’s activities in creating the world.
The seventh speech deals mainly with the Sabbath Years and the Year of Jubilee, the quintessence of the Sabbath! The first results of my investigation into the use of divine speech formulas in the Old Testament supplied the definitive proof in my mind that the number seven played an important role as a structuring device in the two large so-called priestly Clusters and Series of Seven Divine Speeches 53 passages in the books of Exodus and Leviticus. Some of the results of my investigation were published in 1978.