50 Days, 50 Letters, What's in a Number ?
Nov 26, 2016 8:53:29 GMT
Post by Admin on Nov 26, 2016 8:53:29 GMT
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We've all seen the various supposed claims about the Bible containing some sort of " encoded " information, usually this is based on some sort of gematria or " Equidistant Letter Sequence " ( ELS ), colloquially referred to as " Biblecode " ( Although sometimes used as a name for gematria, atbash, temurah, etc )
ELS is where you start by picking a random letter in the text of a book, then you skip an arbitrary number of letters, ( Say 10 letters for example ), then every 10th letter eventually spells out a word or phrase
It was real popular in the 1990's, you could even buy software that was designed to allow you to locate supposedly encoded phrases in the Bible, you may have even seen some of the various pictures that almost look like a crossword puzzle
In 1997, in the best-selling book by Michael Drosnin, he presents an ELS ( Above ) from the text of the Pentateuch (The books of Numbers and Deuteronomy). The eight letters in the column spell "Yitzhak Rabin". They are separated from each other by almost 5000 letters in the original text. Rabin's name intersects a string of words which Drosnin (who doesn't speak Hebrew) translated as "an assassin who will assassinate" (the Jerusalem Bible translates these words as: "a man ... who had killed"). This letter array was found by Drosnin in 1994, a full year before Israel's Prime Minister Rabin was assassinated. He was sufficiently impressed by his own discovery to try to bring it to the attention of Israeli security forces and Rabin himself. When Rabin was assassinated a year later, an impressive centerpiece for Drosnin's book had been established
ELS codes however, ultimately, have been satisfactorily debunked by a number of staticians and mathematicians over the years ( I'll include linked articles discussing them at the bottom of this thread )
The truth turned out to be that you can find hidden words and phrases in any book, not just the Bible, using the same methodology
This makes it about as statistically significant as finding your birthday in the digits of Pi
However, I'm going to point out some rather interesting things about them that the mathematicians /academics Rabbis have missed, in what is known as the 50 letter ELS " Torah codes " in Genesis and Exodus, which have been discussed and dissected at length by academics and remain somewhat of an enigma ( Not debunkable with statistics )
As far as any sort of " Bible codes ", these two have remained untouchable
We've all seen the various supposed claims about the Bible containing some sort of " encoded " information, usually this is based on some sort of gematria or " Equidistant Letter Sequence " ( ELS ), colloquially referred to as " Biblecode " ( Although sometimes used as a name for gematria, atbash, temurah, etc )
ELS is where you start by picking a random letter in the text of a book, then you skip an arbitrary number of letters, ( Say 10 letters for example ), then every 10th letter eventually spells out a word or phrase
It was real popular in the 1990's, you could even buy software that was designed to allow you to locate supposedly encoded phrases in the Bible, you may have even seen some of the various pictures that almost look like a crossword puzzle
In 1997, in the best-selling book by Michael Drosnin, he presents an ELS ( Above ) from the text of the Pentateuch (The books of Numbers and Deuteronomy). The eight letters in the column spell "Yitzhak Rabin". They are separated from each other by almost 5000 letters in the original text. Rabin's name intersects a string of words which Drosnin (who doesn't speak Hebrew) translated as "an assassin who will assassinate" (the Jerusalem Bible translates these words as: "a man ... who had killed"). This letter array was found by Drosnin in 1994, a full year before Israel's Prime Minister Rabin was assassinated. He was sufficiently impressed by his own discovery to try to bring it to the attention of Israeli security forces and Rabin himself. When Rabin was assassinated a year later, an impressive centerpiece for Drosnin's book had been established
ELS codes however, ultimately, have been satisfactorily debunked by a number of staticians and mathematicians over the years ( I'll include linked articles discussing them at the bottom of this thread )
The truth turned out to be that you can find hidden words and phrases in any book, not just the Bible, using the same methodology
This makes it about as statistically significant as finding your birthday in the digits of Pi
However, I'm going to point out some rather interesting things about them that the mathematicians /academics Rabbis have missed, in what is known as the 50 letter ELS " Torah codes " in Genesis and Exodus, which have been discussed and dissected at length by academics and remain somewhat of an enigma ( Not debunkable with statistics )
As far as any sort of " Bible codes ", these two have remained untouchable
What I specifically am referring to is how the word " torah " is spelled out by an ELS with a 50 letter skip
This found in the verses of Genesis 1:1-5 and then again repeated in the verses of Exodus 1:1-6
This found in the verses of Genesis 1:1-5 and then again repeated in the verses of Exodus 1:1-6
" torah " is a Hebrew word essentially meaning " teach / instruction "
Starting with the letter " Tav " ( Mark / sign / seal ) in the word bereshit ( Beginning ) Genesis 1:1 and spanning to verse 5
The word " Torah " is from the root word " yarah "
This is well known about, however there's something I've noticed that's been overlooked, and that's the words themselves, that the letters are in
The words that every 50th letter are actually in, spell out a phrase, " In the beginning, of the deep, saw, God "
So, the letters spell " torah ", while the words themselves construct a phrase, and it is this that has been overlooked by Rabbis and academics alike
An incipit is the first few words of the text, employed as an identifying label
Before the development of titles, texts were often referred to by their incipits, as with for example Agnus Dei. During the medieval period in Europe, incipits were often written in a different script or colour from the rest of the work of which they were a part, and "incipit pages" might be heavily decorated with illumination ( Artwork ), like this page from a Gutenberg Bible ( Below )
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This is discussed in the paper ( PDF ) titled
Secrets in the Library: Protected Knowledge and Professional: Identity in Late Babylonian Uruk ( Kathryn Stevens )
Here is the known library maintained by this specific lineage of priests ( From the above linked PDF )
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In my thread addressing the origin of " flood terminologies " , by tracing the etymology of the Hebrew word " Flood " back through various Mesopotamian languages, and Egyptian, we can see that " the flood " is not a literal flood at all, but was largely associated with the new moon (And eclipses in the Neo-Babylonian period)
The biggest problem with " bible codes " in general is that they are products of imagination, and they are seemingly arbitrary, iow, random
So why the 6th letter ?
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Modern Judaic traditions maintains that the messiah would have to be of the lineage of the tribe of Judah, this in turn would explain the reference to Judah in the 50 letter Torah ELS in Exodus
Tradition maintains the messiah will teach the hidden things ( of Torah ), so this once again strengthens the hypothesis that the 50 letter ELS in Genesis and Exodus was purposefully placed there by the original writers, who themselves had knowledge passed along by the ancient priests, like Sin-leqi-unninni
Note that according to rabbinical tradition, the Torah was given ' At Mount Sinai " right around the time Sîn-lēqi-unninni lived in Mesopotamia, in the period between 1300 BC and 1000 BC.
-1313 BC
~1300 BC
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1 Corinthians 2:10
But God hath revealed them unto us by his Spirit: for the Spirit searcheth all things, yea, the deep things of God.
So, the letters spell " torah ", while the words themselves construct a phrase, and it is this that has been overlooked by Rabbis and academics alike
" deep " in this case is the Hebrew word: tehowm , translated to mean - deep , depth , deep places , depths, abyss, Sheol, sea, deep (of subterranean waters) deep, sea, abysses (of sea) primeval ocean
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In my threads discussing the Biblical flood narrative and it's origins, I discuss the largely forgotten history of the religious associations between " water/s " and " divinity and divine rule ", through priestly traditions in Egypt and Mesopotamia, which brings me to the text known as the " Gilgamesh Epic "
The most complete copy we have is from the lunar priest known as Sîn-lēqi-unninni, translated by A.R. George, Professor of Babylonian, Department of the Languages and Cultures of Near and Middle East at the School of Oriental and African Studies, University of London
There is a second 50 letter Torah ELS, in the Book of Exodus
This one is in Exodus 1:1-6
" Now these are the names of the children of Israel, which came into Egypt; every man and his household came with Jacob. Reuben, Simeon, Levi, and Judah,Issachar, Zebulun, and Benjamin, Dan, and Naphtali, Gad, and Asher. And all the souls that came out of the loins of Jacob were seventy souls: for Joseph was in Egypt already. And Joseph died, and all his brethren, and all that generation "
This one is in Exodus 1:1-6
" Now these are the names of the children of Israel, which came into Egypt; every man and his household came with Jacob. Reuben, Simeon, Levi, and Judah,Issachar, Zebulun, and Benjamin, Dan, and Naphtali, Gad, and Asher. And all the souls that came out of the loins of Jacob were seventy souls: for Joseph was in Egypt already. And Joseph died, and all his brethren, and all that generation "
שְׁמוֹת ( Names ) is the Plural construct form of שֵׁם ( name )
The words that contain the letters spelling out " torah " with a 50 letter skip then says " Names, Judah, of the loins, he "
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This is interesting because according to Judaism, the Messiah will come from Judah
In Jewish eschatology, the term mashiach, or "Messiah", refers specifically to a future Jewish king from the Davidic line, who is expected to save the Jewish nation, and will be anointed with holy anointing oil and rule the Jewish people during the Messianic Age. The Messiah is often referred to as "King Messiah", or, in Hebrew, מלך משיח (melekh mashiach), and, in Aramaic, malka meshiḥa.
In a generalized sense, messiah has "the connotation of a savior or redeemer who would appear at the end of days and usher in the kingdom of God, the restoration of Israel, or whatever dispensation was considered to be the ideal state of the world."
Messianism "denotes a movement, or a system of beliefs and ideas, centered on the expectation of the advent of a messiah." Orthodox views hold that the Messiah will be descended from his father through the line of King David, ( David was the eighth son (and youngest) of Jesse, from the tribe of Judah )
In Jewish eschatology, the term mashiach, or "Messiah", refers specifically to a future Jewish king from the Davidic line, who is expected to save the Jewish nation, and will be anointed with holy anointing oil and rule the Jewish people during the Messianic Age. The Messiah is often referred to as "King Messiah", or, in Hebrew, מלך משיח (melekh mashiach), and, in Aramaic, malka meshiḥa.
In a generalized sense, messiah has "the connotation of a savior or redeemer who would appear at the end of days and usher in the kingdom of God, the restoration of Israel, or whatever dispensation was considered to be the ideal state of the world."
Messianism "denotes a movement, or a system of beliefs and ideas, centered on the expectation of the advent of a messiah." Orthodox views hold that the Messiah will be descended from his father through the line of King David, ( David was the eighth son (and youngest) of Jesse, from the tribe of Judah )
"The scepter will not depart from Judah, nor the ruler's staff from between his feet, until he comes to whom it belongs and the obedience of the nations is his" (Genesis 49:10)
In my threads discussing the Biblical flood narrative and it's origins, I discuss the largely forgotten history of the religious associations between " water/s " and " divinity and divine rule ", through priestly traditions in Egypt and Mesopotamia, which brings me to the text known as the " Gilgamesh Epic "
The most complete copy we have is from the lunar priest known as Sîn-lēqi-unninni, translated by A.R. George, Professor of Babylonian, Department of the Languages and Cultures of Near and Middle East at the School of Oriental and African Studies, University of London
Sîn-lēqi-unninni (Akkadian: 𒁹𒀭𒌍𒋾𒀀𒅆 ) was a mašmaššu who lived in Mesopotamia in the period between 1300 BC and 1000 BC. In literary circles, however, he is remembered for having compiled the best-preserved version of the Epic of Gilgamesh. His name is listed in the text itself, which was unorthodox for works written in cuneiform. The extent to which his version is different from earlier texts is unknown; George argues that Sîn-lēqi-unninni "gave [The Epic of Gilgamesh] its final, fixed form "
The prologue features the only instance of first person narration by Sîn-lēqi-unninni. In other words, his copy of Gilgamesh is the only known copy where the person who wrote the story down, tells the story with himself as the main character ( 1st person narration )
His version includes Utnapishtim's story of the Flood in tablet XI and, in tablet XII, the Sumerian Gilgamesh, Enkidu and the Netherworld
Sîn-lēqi-unninni's name means 'Sîn (the Moon God) is one who accepts my prayer'. It is also sometimes transcribed, albeit less probably, as 'Sîn-liqe-unninni', meaning 'O Sîn! Accept my prayer'
The prologue features the only instance of first person narration by Sîn-lēqi-unninni. In other words, his copy of Gilgamesh is the only known copy where the person who wrote the story down, tells the story with himself as the main character ( 1st person narration )
His version includes Utnapishtim's story of the Flood in tablet XI and, in tablet XII, the Sumerian Gilgamesh, Enkidu and the Netherworld
Sîn-lēqi-unninni's name means 'Sîn (the Moon God) is one who accepts my prayer'. It is also sometimes transcribed, albeit less probably, as 'Sîn-liqe-unninni', meaning 'O Sîn! Accept my prayer'
What does this possibly have to do with the 50 letter Torah ELS in Genesis ?
Sîn-lēqi-unninni's version of Gilgamesh is known by its incipit, or first line "Sha naqba īmuru" ("He who saw the deep" or "The one who saw the Abyss")
An incipit is the first few words of the text, employed as an identifying label
Before the development of titles, texts were often referred to by their incipits, as with for example Agnus Dei. During the medieval period in Europe, incipits were often written in a different script or colour from the rest of the work of which they were a part, and "incipit pages" might be heavily decorated with illumination ( Artwork ), like this page from a Gutenberg Bible ( Below )
Compared to the Genesis ELS:
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One might say this is nothing more than coincidence, which seems reasonable..... at first
However, in my thread titled Deconstructing Noah, where I show how the Genesis flood narrative is a fiction based on ancient priestly traditions and calculations regarding eclipses and new moon, I show that in the earliest texts, the " flood " refers to a " flood of light " and ultimately a " quiver " ( for arrows and archers, which shows the connection of this priestly concept to the Bible's " Yarah " ( Referring to archers ) and is the root of the word found in the 50 letter ELS " Torah " ( teaching, instruction ), which is exactly what a High Priest / Rabbi does
Sîn-lēqi-unninni's version of Gilgamesh also is unique among the various " flood epics " as the priest tells the story in 1st person narrative, with himself as the character Gilgamesh, who is God
The reader should keep in mind that Sîn was the name of the Moon God, who was the head of the pantheon for some time, called the " Creator God ", while Sîn-lēqi-unninni's role as a was not just as the earthly manifestation of this creator God, but also the astronomer-priest who was in possession of the texts containing tables of atsronomical observations, and that the exegesis of these texts was very secretive and only passed along a certain lineage of priests, namely Sîn-lēqi-unninni's descendants
The reader should keep in mind that Sîn was the name of the Moon God, who was the head of the pantheon for some time, called the " Creator God ", while Sîn-lēqi-unninni's role as a was not just as the earthly manifestation of this creator God, but also the astronomer-priest who was in possession of the texts containing tables of atsronomical observations, and that the exegesis of these texts was very secretive and only passed along a certain lineage of priests, namely Sîn-lēqi-unninni's descendants
This is discussed in the paper ( PDF ) titled
Secrets in the Library: Protected Knowledge and Professional: Identity in Late Babylonian Uruk ( Kathryn Stevens )
Here is the known library maintained by this specific lineage of priests ( From the above linked PDF )
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In my thread addressing the origin of " flood terminologies " , by tracing the etymology of the Hebrew word " Flood " back through various Mesopotamian languages, and Egyptian, we can see that " the flood " is not a literal flood at all, but was largely associated with the new moon (And eclipses in the Neo-Babylonian period)
The " flood " is also associated with divinity and divine rule, at the earliest showing double meaning in the root, cf the Sumerian mes
So the etymology leads to the earliest associations with flood terms are right in line with the root of the word " Torah " we find embedded as an ELS in the Torah itself, as per the panel below
So let's look at this a little better, because a trained mathematician trying to debunk this, they would say " Well, this is too random, why start at the 6th letter ? "
This is a perfectly reasonable and logical question, because the authors of the Torah would have to have had some reasoning for starting with the 6th letter, instead of the first, or the 17th, or the 9th, etc
This is a perfectly reasonable and logical question, because the authors of the Torah would have to have had some reasoning for starting with the 6th letter, instead of the first, or the 17th, or the 9th, etc
The biggest problem with " bible codes " in general is that they are products of imagination, and they are seemingly arbitrary, iow, random
So why the 6th letter ?
What I found in examining the ELS in the Torah is that the 6th letter is the letter Tav, which is a " mark / sign / seal " in Hebrew exegesis
In the system of Misapr Gadol gematria, the letter has the value of 400
This is the term derivable with the numbers used in the New Testament's Book of Revelation
Those numbers in turn are taken from older priestly texts on astronomy calculations
In turn these texts were in possession of priests like Sîn-lēqi-unninni
In the system of Misapr Gadol gematria, the letter has the value of 400
This is the term derivable with the numbers used in the New Testament's Book of Revelation
Those numbers in turn are taken from older priestly texts on astronomy calculations
In turn these texts were in possession of priests like Sîn-lēqi-unninni
Nothing about this is surprising to me in the least, given the intricacies of ancient priestly literature
The literary practice of referring to eclipses by the earlier terms ( Bubbulu, etc ) that was reserved for only new moon, began in the Chaldean period ( Neo-Babylonian period
The Chaldean Empire was a period of Mesopotamian history which lasted roughly between 626 BC and 539 BC
As renowned astronomers they are best known as having extensive records of the eclipse cycle known as the Saros
This brings another curious thing into the conversation, because when we compare the timeline between the minimum and maximum synodic months, to the time of the first known copies of Genesis 1:1, we find that this was during Chaldean rule, which is the same time period as the captivity of the Jews in Babylon
Since the Torah couldn't have been written without the sofit letters in Hebrew, which is essentially 5 letters added to known Aramaic scripts of the time, ( and using priestly Hieratic numerals as the base set ,ie the mathematical values of the letters themselves ), and the sofit letters, iirc, didn't appear until the time of the Babylonian captivity, one can see that the 50 letter " Torah " ELS wouldn't exist either
The Chaldean Empire was a period of Mesopotamian history which lasted roughly between 626 BC and 539 BC
As renowned astronomers they are best known as having extensive records of the eclipse cycle known as the Saros
This brings another curious thing into the conversation, because when we compare the timeline between the minimum and maximum synodic months, to the time of the first known copies of Genesis 1:1, we find that this was during Chaldean rule, which is the same time period as the captivity of the Jews in Babylon
Since the Torah couldn't have been written without the sofit letters in Hebrew, which is essentially 5 letters added to known Aramaic scripts of the time, ( and using priestly Hieratic numerals as the base set ,ie the mathematical values of the letters themselves ), and the sofit letters, iirc, didn't appear until the time of the Babylonian captivity, one can see that the 50 letter " Torah " ELS wouldn't exist either
The synodic month is used to calculate eclipse cycles
When Exactly Will the Eclipse Happen? A Multimillenium Tale of Computation ( Stephen Wolfram )
When Exactly Will the Eclipse Happen? A Multimillenium Tale of Computation ( Stephen Wolfram )
It would make sense that Chaldean priests in Babylon not only created the 5 additional sofit letters in Hebrew, necessary for writing Genesis figurate 2701 in text form, it would also point to the deliberate placing of the 50 letter " Torah " ELS in Genesis, based on the Chaldean's penchant for referring to eclipses as " floods ", since the New Testament writers used terms taken from Chaldean mathematical astronomy regarding eclipses ( 666 and 144,000 ), also showing the use of dimensionless numbers by Chaldean priest-astronomers, as 400 is a % difference between the Sun and Moon based on their size / distances from earth during said " floods "
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So if the 50 letter Torah ELS is based on the incipit of the Gilgamesh epic as given in 1st person by the priest of the Moon ( Sin ) there should be some historical precedent for it
The use of an incipit is common in Mesopotamian literature
In the clay tablet archives of Sumer, catalogs of documents were kept by making special catalog tablets containing the incipits of a given collection of tablets.
The catalog was meant to be used by the very limited number of official scribes who had access to the archives, and the width of a clay tablet and its resolution did not permit long entries.
This is a Sumerian example from Lerner:
Honored and noble warrior
Where are the sheep
Where are the wild oxen
And with you I did not
In our city
In former days
The use of incipits in the Bible is well known
Many books in the Hebrew Bible are named in Hebrew using incipits. For instance, the first book (Genesis) is called Bereshit ("In the beginning ...") and Lamentations, which begins "How lonely sits the city...", is called Eykha ("How"). A readily recognized one is the "Shema" or Shema Yisrael in the Torah: "Hear O Israel..." – the first words of the prayer encapsulating Judaism's monotheism (see beginning Deuteronomy 6:4 and elsewhere).
All the names of Parashot are incipits, the title coming from a word, occasionally two words, in its first two verses. The first in each book are, of course, called by the same name as the book as a whole.
Some of the Psalms are known by their incipits, most noticeably Psalm 51 (Septuagint numbering: Psalm 50), which is known in Western Christianity by its Latin incipit Miserere ("Have mercy").
In the Talmud, the chapters of the Gemara are titled in print and known by their first words, e.g. the first chapter of Mesekhet Berachot ("Benedictions") is called Me-ematai ("From when"). This word is printed at the head of every subsequent page within that chapter of the tractate.
In rabbinic usage, the incipit is known as the "dibur ha-matḥil" (דיבור המתחיל), or "beginning phrase", and refers to a section heading in a published monograph or commentary that typically, but not always, quotes or paraphrases a classic biblical or rabbinic passage to be commented upon or discussed.
Many religious songs and prayers are known by their opening words.
Sometimes an entire monograph is known by its "dibur hamatḥil". The published mystical and exegetical discourses of the Chabad-Lubavitch rebbes (called "ma'amarim"), derive their titles almost exclusively from the "dibur ha-matḥil" of the individual work's first chapter.
The final book of the New Testament, the Book of Revelation, is often known as the Apocalypse after the first word of the original Greek text, ἀποκάλυψις apokalypsis “revelation”, to the point where that word has become synonymous with what the book describes, i.e. the End of Days (ἔσχατον eschaton “[the] last” in the original).
The use of an incipit is common in Mesopotamian literature
In the clay tablet archives of Sumer, catalogs of documents were kept by making special catalog tablets containing the incipits of a given collection of tablets.
The catalog was meant to be used by the very limited number of official scribes who had access to the archives, and the width of a clay tablet and its resolution did not permit long entries.
This is a Sumerian example from Lerner:
Honored and noble warrior
Where are the sheep
Where are the wild oxen
And with you I did not
In our city
In former days
The use of incipits in the Bible is well known
Many books in the Hebrew Bible are named in Hebrew using incipits. For instance, the first book (Genesis) is called Bereshit ("In the beginning ...") and Lamentations, which begins "How lonely sits the city...", is called Eykha ("How"). A readily recognized one is the "Shema" or Shema Yisrael in the Torah: "Hear O Israel..." – the first words of the prayer encapsulating Judaism's monotheism (see beginning Deuteronomy 6:4 and elsewhere).
All the names of Parashot are incipits, the title coming from a word, occasionally two words, in its first two verses. The first in each book are, of course, called by the same name as the book as a whole.
Some of the Psalms are known by their incipits, most noticeably Psalm 51 (Septuagint numbering: Psalm 50), which is known in Western Christianity by its Latin incipit Miserere ("Have mercy").
In the Talmud, the chapters of the Gemara are titled in print and known by their first words, e.g. the first chapter of Mesekhet Berachot ("Benedictions") is called Me-ematai ("From when"). This word is printed at the head of every subsequent page within that chapter of the tractate.
In rabbinic usage, the incipit is known as the "dibur ha-matḥil" (דיבור המתחיל), or "beginning phrase", and refers to a section heading in a published monograph or commentary that typically, but not always, quotes or paraphrases a classic biblical or rabbinic passage to be commented upon or discussed.
Many religious songs and prayers are known by their opening words.
Sometimes an entire monograph is known by its "dibur hamatḥil". The published mystical and exegetical discourses of the Chabad-Lubavitch rebbes (called "ma'amarim"), derive their titles almost exclusively from the "dibur ha-matḥil" of the individual work's first chapter.
The final book of the New Testament, the Book of Revelation, is often known as the Apocalypse after the first word of the original Greek text, ἀποκάλυψις apokalypsis “revelation”, to the point where that word has become synonymous with what the book describes, i.e. the End of Days (ἔσχατον eschaton “[the] last” in the original).
At first I was reluctant to corroborate the phrase supplied by the 50 letter Torah ELS in Genesis- " In the beginning saw god of the deep ", with Sin-leqi-Unninni's incipit of Gilgamesh- " He who saw the abyss/deep " because they are not word-for-word matches, and this would seem rather willy-nilly
Then I had to logically take several things into account:
A) The translation ( Professor A.R.George ) of the Gilgamesh incipit "Sha naqba īmuru" ("He who saw the deep" or "The one who saw the Abyss") not only uses a term that refers to things of a sacred and hidden nature ( the deep / abyss )
This is discussed in the thread titled " Hell and the Pit , Exegesis of a High Priest "
īmuru, from amaru ( see, of deep things )
naqba - waters - is the cognate to nagbu - the Hebrew word for " prophet "
B) Where " He who saw the deep " ( Gilgamesh ) is missing the phrase - " in the beginning " ( Bible ), an incipit itself is " In the beginning " ( Of a text )
Incipit, in the beginning(Of a text)"He who saw the deep" ( Gilgamesh )
Torah ELS "In the beginning,saw God of the deep" ( Bible )
Then I had to logically take several things into account:
A) The translation ( Professor A.R.George ) of the Gilgamesh incipit "Sha naqba īmuru" ("He who saw the deep" or "The one who saw the Abyss") not only uses a term that refers to things of a sacred and hidden nature ( the deep / abyss )
This is discussed in the thread titled " Hell and the Pit , Exegesis of a High Priest "
īmuru, from amaru ( see, of deep things )
naqba - waters - is the cognate to nagbu - the Hebrew word for " prophet "
B) Where " He who saw the deep " ( Gilgamesh ) is missing the phrase - " in the beginning " ( Bible ), an incipit itself is " In the beginning " ( Of a text )
Incipit, in the beginning(Of a text)"He who saw the deep" ( Gilgamesh )
Torah ELS "In the beginning,saw God of the deep" ( Bible )
Sin-leqi-unninni was a priest of the moon
Being a priest of Sin, he was in possession of the tablets containing the ephemerides of the Moon, as well as being the one responsible for calculating and announcing various times, new moon, eclipses, and other " signs in the sky "
This is the same knowledge that was required of the Levite High Priest, for things like announcing new moon
The Jewish Sanhedrin came to the conclusion they no longer had a High Priest, after the destruction of the Temple, and started requiring 2 witnesses to announce new moon
It's then highly probable that the line of Levite priests originally came from the line of Sin-leqi-unninni who lived in Mesopotamia in the period between 1300 BC and 1000 BC.
In the fourth century, Hillel II established a fixed calendar based on mathematical and astronomical calculations which we know are from earlier sources
It's important to remember that the modern Jewish calendar runs off Mesopotamian mathematical astronomy that was once in the hands of the High Priests in the Bible, as well as the priests before it, and the lunar ( Sin ) calendar is followed because the Bible says this is how God says it is to be done ( That's the common rabbinical explanation )
" He appointed the moon for seasons: the sun knoweth his going down " Psalm 104:19
Being a priest of Sin, he was in possession of the tablets containing the ephemerides of the Moon, as well as being the one responsible for calculating and announcing various times, new moon, eclipses, and other " signs in the sky "
This is the same knowledge that was required of the Levite High Priest, for things like announcing new moon
The Jewish Sanhedrin came to the conclusion they no longer had a High Priest, after the destruction of the Temple, and started requiring 2 witnesses to announce new moon
It's then highly probable that the line of Levite priests originally came from the line of Sin-leqi-unninni who lived in Mesopotamia in the period between 1300 BC and 1000 BC.
In the fourth century, Hillel II established a fixed calendar based on mathematical and astronomical calculations which we know are from earlier sources
It's important to remember that the modern Jewish calendar runs off Mesopotamian mathematical astronomy that was once in the hands of the High Priests in the Bible, as well as the priests before it, and the lunar ( Sin ) calendar is followed because the Bible says this is how God says it is to be done ( That's the common rabbinical explanation )
" He appointed the moon for seasons: the sun knoweth his going down " Psalm 104:19
Essentially, what I am pointing out here, is that although knowledge of the lineage of the High Priest was lost, the use of the math and astronomy, once the duty of the High Priest, was not
Modern Judaic traditions maintains that the messiah would have to be of the lineage of the tribe of Judah, this in turn would explain the reference to Judah in the 50 letter Torah ELS in Exodus
Tradition maintains the messiah will teach the hidden things ( of Torah ), so this once again strengthens the hypothesis that the 50 letter ELS in Genesis and Exodus was purposefully placed there by the original writers, who themselves had knowledge passed along by the ancient priests, like Sin-leqi-unninni
Note that according to rabbinical tradition, the Torah was given ' At Mount Sinai " right around the time Sîn-lēqi-unninni lived in Mesopotamia, in the period between 1300 BC and 1000 BC.
-1313 BC
~1300 BC
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1 Corinthians 2:10
But God hath revealed them unto us by his Spirit: for the Spirit searcheth all things, yea, the deep things of God.
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Notes
The Case Against the Codes Professor Barry Simon
A Skeptical Look at The Torah Codes Dr. Barry Simon
Barry Simon is the IBM Professor of Mathematics and Theoretical Physics at Caltech, He is a trained mathematician and Orthodox Jew who became interested in the controversy surrounding codes in the Torah
Statistical Science 1994, Vol. 9, No. 3, 429-438 (abridged) Equidistant Letter Sequences in the Book of Genesis
Doron Witztum, Eliyahu Rips and Yoav Rosenberg
Madness in the Method- Maya Bar-Hillel and Avishai Margali, December 1999
Notes
The Case Against the Codes Professor Barry Simon
A Skeptical Look at The Torah Codes Dr. Barry Simon
Barry Simon is the IBM Professor of Mathematics and Theoretical Physics at Caltech, He is a trained mathematician and Orthodox Jew who became interested in the controversy surrounding codes in the Torah
Statistical Science 1994, Vol. 9, No. 3, 429-438 (abridged) Equidistant Letter Sequences in the Book of Genesis
Doron Witztum, Eliyahu Rips and Yoav Rosenberg
Madness in the Method- Maya Bar-Hillel and Avishai Margali, December 1999
