Ancient Secrets Of The Bible

Learn to Apply the Timeless Lessons of Jewish Wisdom Writings to Improve Your Daily Life Drawing on a broad range of Jewish wisdom writings, distinguished rabbi and psychologist Levi Meier takes a thoughtful, wise and fresh approach to showing us how to apply the stories of the Bible to our everyday lives and let them work their inspirational magic. The courage of Abraham, who left his early life behind and chose a new, more difficult and more rewarding path; the ability of Joseph to forgive his brothers--the quests and conflicts of the Bible are still relevant, and still have the power to inform and change our lives.

Based on the network television special which aired in May 1993, this fascinating work of scholarly research gives the proven facts behind five biblical "myths". Archaeological evidence supports as truth the destruction of Sodom and Gomorrah, the crossing of the Red Sea, the fall of the walls of Jericho, and more.

DISCOVER CURIOUS AND THOUGHT-PROVOKING STORIES AND SECRETS OF ANCIENT TIMES Uncover clues about 99 of the most intriguing puzzles found in the Bible. —Where was the Garden of Eden? —How did the Red Sea part? —What made the walls of Jericho tumble down? —Are there unicorns in the BIble? —Did Lazarus really rise from the dead? Within these pages, examine these perplexing questions and many more by looking at historical, cultural, archeological, and other significant details. You'll be sure to enjoy the quests within 99 Ancient Secrets and Mysteries of the Bible Explored.

Secrecy and the Gods is a comparative mythological study of the human reception and treatment of divine secret knowledge in ancient Mesopotamia and biblical Israel. The human royal council was the social model for ancient ideas about divine knowledge being secret - just as human kings had secrets so too did the gods. Diviners who received this knowledge from the gods in an on-going, ad hoc manner were an essential link between the divine assembly and the human royal council for whom such knowledge was intended. Scribes eventually adapted the ad hoc divinatory means of receiving divine communications to their culturally significant texts. By discursively asserting a historical connection between themselves and unique mediators with a close divine affiliation (the apkallus and Moses), the scribes constructed myths that legitimated their texts as divine revelation and claimed these were received in history through normal scribal channels. In this manner, scribes fixed the secret of the gods permanently among humans in textualized form that valorized their own position within society. Although the origin of divine secret knowledge was rooted in a common mythological idea of the divine assembly, its treatment was quite distinct. The Mesopotamians guarded divine secret knowledge through various scribal means, including the attachment of a Geheimwissen colophon to certain tablets (treated exhaustively), whereas biblical Israel published it openly. The contrast in treatment of divine secret knowledge was directly related to different mytho-political self-understandings: Mesopotamia's imperial aspirations versus biblical Israel's vassaldom. As vassals to Yahweh, the divine imperial king, the kings of Judah and Israel as presented in the biblical material were not to formulate secret orders; they were only to obey them.

In these pages you will find never-before-seen biblical proof that you can be assured of blessing and favor in the last days.