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Clothed with Salvation: The Garden, the Veil, Tabitha, and Christ

Daniel Belnap Studies in the Bible and Antiquity: Volume – 4, Pages: 43-69 Provo, Utah: Maxwell Institute, 2012 The views expressed in this article are the views of the author and do not necessarily represent the position of the Maxwell Institute, Brigham Young University, or The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints. Sandwiched between the account of Saul’s conversion in Acts 9 and Peter’s vision of the Gentiles in Acts 10 is the story of the raising of Tabitha. While staying in the town of Lydda, Peter, the presiding disciple of Christ, is approached by two individuals from the neighboring city of Joppa with the request that he come and attend to the then-deceased Tabitha. When he gets there, he is met by widows weeping and wailing over Tabitha’s departure. We know practically nothing of Tabitha except that she is a believer and a woman “full of good works and almsdeeds” (Acts 9:36). These works are revealed as the mourners present themselves before Peter, showing him the clo...

The DNA of Abraham’s Children

Analysis of Jewish genomes refutes the Khazar claim. French Jews of the Middle Ages. From the 1901-1906 Jewish Encyclopedia, now in the public domain. (Photo credit: Wikipedia) Jews have historically considered themselves “people of the book” ( am hasefer in Hebrew), referring to sacred tomes, but the phrase is turning out to have an equally powerful, if unintended, meaning: scientists are able to read Jewish genomes like a history book. The latest DNA volume weighs in on the controversial, centuries-old (and now revived in a 2008 book ) claim that European Jews are all the descendants of Khazars, a Turkic group of the north Caucasus who converted to Judaism in the late eighth and early ninth century. The DNA has spoken: no. In the wake of studies in the 1990s that supported biblically based notions of a priestly caste descended from Aaron, brother of Moses, an ambitious new project to analyze genomes collected from Jewish volunteers has yielded its first discoveries. In a paper wit...

Rosh ha Shanah

Image via Wikipedia The festival of Rosh Hashanah –the name means “ Head of the Year “–is observed for two days beginning on Tishrei 1 , the first day of the Jewish year. It is the anniversary of the creation of Adam and Eve , the first man and woman , and their first actions toward the realization of mankind’s role in G-d’s world. Rosh Hashanah thus emphasizes the special relationship between G-d and humanity: our dependence upon G-d as our creator and sustainer, and G-d’s dependence upon us as the ones who make His presence known and felt in His world. Each year on Rosh Hashanah, “all inhabitants of the world pass before G-d like a flock of sheep,” and it is decreed in the heavenly court, “ who shall live, and who shall die… who shall be impoverished, and who shall be enriched; who shall fall and who shall rise. ” But this is also the day we proclaim G-d King of the Universe . The Kabbalists teach that the continued existence of the universe is dependent upon the renewal of the di...

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