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The Tanakh — Torah, Prophets and Writings — in Hebrew, Greek and the corpus's own translations.
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- Adam and Eve Adam (Hebrew: אָדָם, ʾāḏām) and Eve (Hebrew: חַוָּה, ḥawwāh) are the first humans of the Hebrew Bible's Genesis narrative — formed by the Elohim in…
- Bible Bible — the canonical anthology of Jewish and Christian scriptures. In the Wheel of Heaven corpus the full entry lives at Hebrew Bible / Tanakh.
- Biglino Method The Biglino Method is the interpretive methodology developed by Italian translator and scholar Mauro Biglino (1950–) for reading the Hebrew Bible,…
- Dead Sea Scrolls The Dead Sea Scrolls are roughly 950 manuscripts recovered from the caves at Qumran between 1947 and 1956, dating from the third century BCE to the…
- Dhorme Bible translation The Dhorme Bible is the French translation of the Old Testament prepared by the French Assyriologist and Semitologist Édouard Dhorme (1881–1966),…
- Dragons Dragons are a category of large reptilian or serpentine creatures that the Wheel of Heaven framework identifies as deliberately created biological…
- Eden Eden (Hebrew: עֵדֶן, ʿĒden) is the region named in the Hebrew Bible as the location of the garden in which the first humans were created and lived…
- Elijah Elijah (Hebrew <span class="hebrew"אֵלִיָּהוּ</span Eliyyahu, "My God is Yah") is one of the most theologically significant prophets of the Hebrew…
- Elohim Elohim (Hebrew: אֱלֹהִים) is the plural-form Hebrew name used throughout the Torah for the figures conventionally translated as God. On the reading…
- Ezekiel Ezekiel (Hebrew <span class="hebrew"יְחֶזְקֵאל</span Yeḥezqēl, "El strengthens" or "may God strengthen") is a priest of the Jerusalem line, deported…
- Genesis Genesis (Hebrew: בְּרֵאשִׁית, B'reshit) is the first book of the Hebrew Bible, opening with two distinct creation narratives followed by the primeval…
- Hebrew Hebrew (Hebrew: עִבְרִית, ʿivrit) is a Semitic language, the principal language of the Hebrew Bible, and — after a period of approximately two…
- Hebrew Bible The Hebrew Bible (Hebrew: תָּנָ״ךְ, Tanakh) is the twenty-four-book Hebrew-language scriptural corpus — Torah, Nevi'im, and Ketuvim — composed across…
- Jean Sendy Jean Sendy (born Dimitri Abelson; Petrograd, 16 November 1910 – Coulommiers, 24 April 1978) was a Russian-born French author and translator whose…
- Masoretic Text The Masoretic Text (MT) is the standard Hebrew text of the Tanakh: the ancient consonantal text supplied with vowel-pointing (niqqud), cantillation…
- Mauro Biglino Mauro Biglino (born 1950 in Turin) is an Italian translator and author whose professional career rendering the Hebrew Masoretic Text into Italian for…
- Mazzaroth Mazzaroth (Hebrew מַזָּרוֹת) appears exactly once in the Hebrew Bible — at Job 38:32 — and its meaning was already lost by the time of the earliest…
- Menorah The Menorah is the seven-branched golden lampstand specified in the Hebrew Bible (Exodus 25:31–40) as a principal furnishing of the Tabernacle and…
- Moses Moses (Hebrew <span class="hebrew"מֹשֶׁה</span Moshe; Arabic Mūsā) is the foundational prophet, lawgiver, and deliverer of the Hebrew Bible,…
- Nephilim The Nephilim (Hebrew: nephilim, conventionally 'the fallen ones,' rendered gigantes — 'giants' — in the Greek Septuagint) are the figures introduced…
- New Jerusalem New Jerusalem is, in the Wheel of Heaven framework, one of three names — with Third Temple and Embassy — for the structure meant to receive the…
- Plurality of Gods Plurality of Gods is the Wheel of Heaven reading that the Hebrew Bible describes many divine beings rather than one abstract God. Its basis is…
- Sendy's Conditions of Coherence Sendy's Conditions of Coherence is the methodological framework articulated by Jean Sendy in L'Ère du Verseau (1970, chapter 18) specifying the five…
- Septuagint The Septuagint (LXX) is the Koine Greek translation of the Hebrew scriptures, begun with the Torah in third-century-BCE Alexandria and largely…
- Theomachy The Theomachy is the multi-age narrative event of the political-military conflict between the Elohim home-world Council and the…
- Third Temple The Third Temple (Hebrew Beit ha-Mikdash ha-Shlishi, "the Third Holy House") is the future Temple that Jewish tradition expects to rise in Jerusalem…
- Yahweh Yahweh (Hebrew: יהוה, YHWH) is the proper name of the principal divine figure of the Hebrew Bible, conventionally read by mainstream tradition as the…
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- The Mill That Grinds the Ages In 1969 two historians of science — Giorgio de Santillana of MIT and Hertha von Dechend of Frankfurt — published an 'essay' arguing that the world's…
- Unsealed in Year One The companion to 'The Scrolls That Woke in Year One': that Explainer tells what happened to the jars — the discovery, the forty-year publication…
- The Man Who Bet the Bible on the Moon Jean Sendy (1910–1978) — Russian-born Parisian, wartime correspondent, translator of Raymond Chandler, amateur joiner, monocled dandy of the 1930s…
- Are the Anunnaki the Elohim? Two names, two languages, one creator-civilization: the Anunnaki of the Sumerian tradition are the same beings the Hebrew Bible remembers as the…
- Are Lucifer and Satan the Same? Almost everyone treats Lucifer and Satan as two names for one being: the Devil, the fallen angel, the adversary of God. The Hebrew Bible does not.…
- The Translator's Wager For roughly two decades an unassuming scholar from the Susa Valley translated the Hebrew Bible, word under word, for Edizioni San Paolo — the…
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- 1 Chronicles 1 Chronicles — 29 chapters, 942 verses. Part of Hebrew Bible (Tanakh) in the Bible.
- 1 Kings Nine chapters of 1 Kings translated from the Hebrew: Solomon's accession, the Temple and the cloud, the man of God at Bethel, Elijah, and Micaiah's…
- 1 Kings 1 Kings — 22 chapters, 816 verses. Part of Hebrew Bible (Tanakh) in the Bible.
- 1 Samuel Four chapters of 1 Samuel translated from the Hebrew: YHWH calls Samuel, the ark among the Philistines and its return, and David and Goliath.
- 1 Samuel 1 Samuel — 31 chapters, 810 verses. Part of Hebrew Bible (Tanakh) in the Bible.
- 2 Chronicles 2 Chronicles — 36 chapters, 822 verses. Part of Hebrew Bible (Tanakh) in the Bible.
- 2 Kings Four chapters of 2 Kings translated from the Hebrew: the fire on the captains, Elijah taken up in the chariot of fire, Elisha's miracles, and the…
- 2 Kings 2 Kings — 25 chapters, 719 verses. Part of Hebrew Bible (Tanakh) in the Bible.
- 2 Samuel 2 Samuel 6 translated from the Hebrew: David brings up the ark of the Elohim, enthroned on the cherubim, and Uzzah dies when he takes hold of it.
- 2 Samuel 2 Samuel — 24 chapters, 695 verses. Part of Hebrew Bible (Tanakh) in the Bible.
- Amos Amos 4 translated from the Hebrew: the cows of Bashan, the refrain 'yet you have not returned to me', and he who forms the mountains and creates the…
- Amos Amos — 9 chapters, 146 verses. Part of Hebrew Bible (Tanakh) in the Bible.
- Daniel Daniel — 12 chapters, 357 verses. Part of Hebrew Bible (Tanakh) in the Bible.
- Daniel (Full Book 1-12) The book of Daniel, chapters 1–12, translated from the Hebrew and Aramaic: the court tales, the Ancient of Days, the son of man, the seventy weeks…
- Deuteronomy Deuteronomy 4 translated from the Hebrew: the voice heard out of the fire at Horeb, 'you saw no likeness', the warning against images, and the cities…
- Deuteronomy Deuteronomy (Hebrew: דְּבָרִים, Devarim — "Words") is the fifth and final book of the Torah. Thirty-four chapters, 959 verses, structured as Moses's…
- Ecclesiastes Ecclesiastes 3 translated from the Hebrew: a time for everything under the skies, eternity set in the human heart, and the shared fate of humans and…
- Ecclesiastes Ecclesiastes — 12 chapters, 222 verses. Part of Hebrew Bible (Tanakh) in the Bible.
- Esther Esther — 10 chapters, 167 verses. Part of Hebrew Bible (Tanakh) in the Bible.
- Exodus Ten chapters of Exodus translated from the Hebrew: the burning bush, the sea, the manna, Sinai and the Ten Commandments, the covenant meal, and the…
- Exodus Exodus (Hebrew: שְׁמוֹת, Shemot — "Names") is the second book of the Torah. Forty chapters, 1,213 verses, spanning the liberation from Egypt, the…
- Ezekiel Eleven chapters of Ezekiel translated from the Hebrew: the throne-vision, the scroll, the prophet carried by the ruach, the dry bones and the Temple…
- Ezekiel Ezekiel — 48 chapters, 1,273 verses. Part of Hebrew Bible (Tanakh) in the Bible.
- Ezra Ezra — 10 chapters, 280 verses. Part of Hebrew Bible (Tanakh) in the Bible.
- Genesis Genesis translated in full from the Hebrew of the Westminster Leningrad Codex, set beside the source, with verse notes on Elohim, the creation verbs…
- Genesis Genesis (Hebrew: בְּרֵאשִׁית, Bereshit — "In the beginning") is the first book of the Torah and the Hebrew Bible. This edition is the American…
- Habakkuk Habakkuk — 3 chapters, 56 verses. Part of Hebrew Bible (Tanakh) in the Bible.
- Hosea Hosea — 14 chapters, 197 verses. Part of Hebrew Bible (Tanakh) in the Bible.
- Isaiah Nineteen chapters of Isaiah translated from the Hebrew: the throne vision, the oracles on Babylon, the Little Apocalypse, the Servant Songs, and the…
- Isaiah Isaiah — 66 chapters, 1,292 verses. Part of Hebrew Bible (Tanakh) in the Bible.
- Jeremiah Jeremiah 10 translated from the Hebrew: do not be dismayed at the signs of the skies, the idols the craftsmen make, and YHWH the living God who made…
- Jeremiah Jeremiah — 52 chapters, 1,364 verses. Part of Hebrew Bible (Tanakh) in the Bible.
- Job Job translated from the Hebrew: the council of the sons of the Elohim, Elihu's storm hymn, and YHWH's speech from the whirlwind with Behemoth and…
- Job Job — 42 chapters, 1,070 verses. Part of Hebrew Bible (Tanakh) in the Bible.
- Joel Joel — 3 chapters, 73 verses. Part of Hebrew Bible (Tanakh) in the Bible.
- Jonah Jonah 2 translated from the Hebrew: the great fish that YHWH appoints to swallow Jonah, his prayer from its belly, and his release onto the dry land.
- Jonah Jonah — 4 chapters, 48 verses. Part of Hebrew Bible (Tanakh) in the Bible.
- Joshua Four chapters of Joshua translated from the Hebrew: the Jordan crossing, the captain of the host of YHWH, the fall of Jericho, and the sun standing…
- Joshua Joshua — 24 chapters, 658 verses. Part of Hebrew Bible (Tanakh) in the Bible.
- Judges Three chapters of Judges translated from the Hebrew: the call of Gideon and the fire from the rock, Gideon's three hundred, and the announcement of…
- Judges Judges — 21 chapters, 618 verses. Part of Hebrew Bible (Tanakh) in the Bible.
- Lamentations Lamentations — 5 chapters, 154 verses. Part of Hebrew Bible (Tanakh) in the Bible.
- Leviticus Two chapters of Leviticus translated from the Hebrew: the life of the flesh that is in the blood, and the Sabbath year, the jubilee and the…
- Leviticus Leviticus (Hebrew: וַיִּקְרָא, Vayikra — "And He called") is the third book of the Torah and the legal heart of the Priestly source. Twenty-seven…
- Micah Micah 5 translated from the Hebrew: the ruler from Bethlehem whose goings forth are from of old, and the remnant of Jacob like dew from YHWH.
- Micah Micah — 7 chapters, 105 verses. Part of Hebrew Bible (Tanakh) in the Bible.
- Nahum Nahum — 3 chapters, 47 verses. Part of Hebrew Bible (Tanakh) in the Bible.
- Nehemiah Nehemiah — 13 chapters, 406 verses. Part of Hebrew Bible (Tanakh) in the Bible.
- Numbers Four chapters of Numbers translated from the Hebrew: the seventy elders and the quail, the priests' portions, the serpent of bronze, and the…
- Numbers Numbers (Hebrew: בְּמִדְבַּר, Bemidbar — "In the wilderness") is the fourth book of the Torah. Thirty-six chapters, 1,288 verses, spanning the…
- Obadiah Obadiah — 1 chapters, 1 verses. Part of Hebrew Bible (Tanakh) in the Bible.
- Proverbs Two chapters of Proverbs translated from the Hebrew: Wisdom calls and was beside YHWH at the founding of the world (8), and the first proverbs of…
- Proverbs Proverbs — 31 chapters, 915 verses. Part of Hebrew Bible (Tanakh) in the Bible.
- Psalms Five psalms translated from the Hebrew: a mortal a little less than Elohim (8), the skies recount the glory of El (19), and Psalms 33, 139 and 147.
- Psalms Psalms — 150 chapters, 2,461 verses. Part of Hebrew Bible (Tanakh) in the Bible.
- Ruth Ruth — 4 chapters, 85 verses. Part of Hebrew Bible (Tanakh) in the Bible.
- Song Of Solomon Song Of Solomon — 8 chapters, 117 verses. Part of Hebrew Bible (Tanakh) in the Bible.
- Zechariah Three chapters of Zechariah translated from the Hebrew: the golden lampstand and two olive trees, the flying scroll and the ephah, and the king on a…
- Zephaniah Zephaniah 1 translated from the Hebrew: everything swept from the face of the ground, those who worship the host of the heavens, and the great day of…
- Zephaniah Zephaniah — 3 chapters, 53 verses. Part of Hebrew Bible (Tanakh) in the Bible.