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  1. Bethsheba Ashe

    An Interesting challenge

    Well the mysticism emerges from observations of the natural cycles of the world. Look at the Letter Beth (2) at the top of the diagram of the Seven Palaces. That probably corresponded to the pole star at one time. The Seventh Palace was the home of EL , and the first thing he did from there...
  2. Bethsheba Ashe

    The Original Sin: who is to blame?

    Hmmm. Well I view Jacob and Esau as the personifications of Summer and Winter because of the gematria of the story, and the fact it closely resembles the Mesopotamian 'The Debate between Winter and Summer'. I think the story of Jacob and Esau is about God giving Summer the land to care for...
  3. Bethsheba Ashe

    An Interesting challenge

    Its both. In ancient times there was not this strict division in the minds of people between natural science and mysticism. The mysticism is that each letter created a quality of the world. The early science is astronomy and early math of the more practical kind. They were definitely...
  4. Bethsheba Ashe

    The Original Sin: who is to blame?

    So you want to use non-standard bespoke definitions of words? Fine with me, but can you define your terms before using them or it just looks as if you're bull****ting your way out of a corner. So do you assume that these heavenly analogues of the Torah and the Qur'an are some type of ghostly...
  5. Bethsheba Ashe

    An Interesting challenge

    Great questions. Thanks. I haven't attempted to publish in a Journal. I may do so in the future, but I'd rather the pleasure of that belonged to someone in the academic community who would personally benefit from that type of time consuming and extremely demanding labour. As of now I have...
  6. Bethsheba Ashe

    The Original Sin: who is to blame?

    I understand that you understand it that way, but I'd like some evidence. Does it say that in the Israeli constitution? On what basis do you assert that the state of Israel was established on the infallibility of the Torah?
  7. Bethsheba Ashe

    The Original Sin: who is to blame?

    I put it on the table. You picked it up. If I think you are a racist I'll let you know directly though. At the moment I'm giving you the benefit of the doubt and I'm privately putting your ill-advised comments down to a common cognitive distortion called "splitting". Worse, I'm even daring...
  8. Bethsheba Ashe

    The Original Sin: who is to blame?

    @ 9-18-1 One of the things I love about the Jewish people is that if you ask 1,000 Jewish people for an answer to a question you'll get 1,000 different answers. The community is extremely diverse. If there's a Jew out there claiming something, there's another Jew out there disputing them with...
  9. Bethsheba Ashe

    The Original Sin: who is to blame?

    I did a little work on the gematria of this story last year. I was trying to discover the identity of the fruit: “And the fruit of the tree which in the middle of the garden”. - Genesis 3:3 ומפרי העץ אשר בתוך ־ הגן In my experience of the calculating art, typically the use of the words such...
  10. Bethsheba Ashe

    Biblical Gematria

    This gematria originated with the Paleohebrew script (and possibly the Proto-Consonantal script) and the values are correct for the bible, as is the order. The reason for the placement of letters in that order is that the Seven Palaces are based on the number 31 (for the name of El) and when...
  11. Bethsheba Ashe

    Biblical Gematria

    Originally it was a way for people to do mathematics without having math signs. It developed into an art that could hide math in the plain text.
  12. Bethsheba Ashe

    Biblical Gematria

    I'm probably going to be referencing the Seven Palaces (aka Ezekiel's "wheel') quite a lot for one reason or another so here it is:
  13. Bethsheba Ashe

    Biblical Gematria

    Let's begin with the Days of the Week: ראשון שני שלישי רביעי חמישי שישי שבת = 777 Gematria # Hebrew Translation Name ראשון 260 Sunday Rishon שני 63 Monday Sheni שלישי 56 Tuesday Shlishi רביעי 292...
  14. Bethsheba Ashe

    Biblical Gematria

    The "standard gematria" number set that is found in the Talmud is not used in the bible. Neither are any of the other gematria methods, because they were invented in the middle ages. The first thing to understand is that everyone has been using the wrong number set for the bible, and that is...
  15. Bethsheba Ashe

    Biblical Gematria

    This thread is for discussions about biblical gematria, in either the Hebrew of the Tanakh or the Greek of the New Testament but only with biblical gematria; i.e. gematria using the following number sets; Hebrew: א 1 ב 2 ג 3 ש 3 ד 4 ת 4 ה 5 ו 6 ז 7 ח 8 ט 9 י 10 כ 20 ל 30 מ 40 נ 50 ס 60 ע 70 פ...
  16. Bethsheba Ashe

    Exodus: History and myth, then and now

    Josephus was working with the same sources (or less) as we are. I don't believe he's relevant as a witness.
  17. Bethsheba Ashe

    Exodus: History and myth, then and now

    According to 1 Kings, 480 years after the Israelites left Egypt, Solomon finished the Temple in 3 sections over a 7 year period – [6:9], [6:14], [6:38]. Yet one day is 480 minutes x 3 (= 1440 minutes), so this is typological to the way God created the heaven and the earth in a single day.
  18. Bethsheba Ashe

    Exodus: History and myth, then and now

    The 480 years is thought to be a typological or "ideal" measure of time, rather than an actually measured period. Its like 700 years would be, because: הָאָֽרֶץ׃ וְאֵ֥ת הַשָּׁמַ֖יִם אֵ֥ת אֱלֹהִ֑ים בָּרָ֣א בְּרֵאשִׁ֖ית [Genesis 1:1] Remove the word Bara as its a verb. Count the et and v'et as...
  19. Bethsheba Ashe

    Exodus: History and myth, then and now

    He's well known for that, but I believe his theory about the Passover having a cultural antecedent is separate from that.
  20. Bethsheba Ashe

    Exodus: History and myth, then and now

    Thanks for the article. What do you think of the Wellhausenian theory that the Passover has semi-nomadic origins?
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