Friday, September 11, 2020

Connecting Deuteronomy's deletion dots

PROFESSOR ALBERT L. BAUMGARTEN: Dots on Deuteronomy 29:28: A Polemical Response to Qumran’s Secret Laws (TheTorah.com).
“The secret things belong unto YHWH our God; but the things that are revealed belong unto us and to our children forever”—the verse has eleven dotted letters indicating erasure marks, but why? The answer lies in a controversial interpretation found in the Dead Sea Scrolls.

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