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The Dead Sea Scrolls Online

Posted on July 31, 2011 by Hebraist

The Dead Sea Scrolls will be available online soon. The Friends of the Israel Antiquities Authority is offering the scrolls up for adoption. There are 15,000 fragments and it costs upwards of £1,200 to have one as your own. Read … Continue reading →

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Who Divided The Holy Bible Into Chapters And Verses?

Posted on March 30, 2011 by Hebraist

There are 929 chapters and 23,145 verses in the Old Testament. However, the ancient manuscripts of the Bible did not contain the chapter and verse divisions in the numbered form familiar to modern readers today. Some portions of the original … Continue reading →

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