03 Jun 2021

Bones of Israel, PDF
The attached pdf file contains the translations of the Hidden Bones marker phrase found in 12 widely used English translations of the bible. These include the versions most widely used by English-speaking communities of Protestants, Catholics, and Jews. All but Young's Literal Translation show the important lack of consistency in their treatment of the marker. Translations of Marke...
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12 May 2021

Bones of Israel, PDF
The Missing Bones of the Septuagint. REV.05.12.21 In the course of research for The Hidden Bones Apocalypse I realized that the key phrase defining the work was not to be found in  any literal way in the Greek translation. Having completed the manuscript of The Hidden Bones in January I decided to look more closely at the Septuagint to verify that earlier conclusion. The result of tha...
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12 May 2021

Bones of Israel
A Solution to the Duration Problem of Daniel 12 with ADDENDUM.05.12.21 I completed a full re-write of the manuscript of the Hidden Bones Apocalypse in January 2021 and decided I would write a couple of papers on specific topics that I treat in the book. The first of those was on the method used by the author of the book of Daniel to convey his positioon on the calendar controversy tha...
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13 Jan 2021

Uncategorized
The manuscript of The Hidden Bones Apocalypse is now complete. It presents several important ideas in the field of Hebrew bible study: The recognition that the special marker phrase conveys a single, coherent communication, The recognition that the communication is an apocalypse, The understanding of the need for its hiddenness, The identification of its creator as the a...
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13 Jan 2021

Bones of Israel, Judaic Topics
(This is an excerpt from the manuscript of The Hidden Bones Apocalypse. Copyright: Charles R Lightner 2021)   The Hidden Bones Apocalypse Conclusion                 Shortly after 164 BCE—when the period of the anti-Judaic edicts of Antiochus IV had ended—a project was begun to replace the scrolls of “the Law and the Prophets and the other books”[1] that had been destroyed during...
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23 Jul 2020

Bones of Israel
Having gotten to the end of the Hidden Bones study, and having found that it ends quite differently than I had anticipated, I've now begun a full re-write that allows the beginning to point towards the end. I have completed the rewrite of the first two sections of the study and I have posted a PDF file of those sections under the PDF tab of this blog. Further review and modific...
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23 Apr 2020

Bones of Israel
We never expected to be able to identify the scribe responsible for The Hidden Bones Apocalypse. It has come as a surprise that there is a very logical answer to the question of his identity. That answer is driven by: 1) our conclusion regarding timing, 2) the content of the Hidden Bones message, and 3) the relationship of the Hidden Bones message to the other writings of the period, bot...
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19 Apr 2020

Judaic Topics
The long period during which we have studied the specifications for, the erection of and the consecration of the mishkan - the desert sanctuary - comes to an end in Parashat Shemini. At the end of Parashat Tzav, the previous parashah, we learned that Aaron and his sons were to remain in, or at the entrance to, the tent of meeting, for seven days after their ritual anointing. It is on the...
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