An intra-biblical study of the maskilimMaskilim (משכילים)Hebrew for the wise or those who instruct. The term used in Daniel 11:33-35 and 12:3 for the wise teachers who shine like the stars during the seventieth week. Treated in chapter 17. of Daniel and the 144,000 of Revelation
Henk Visser MA
All Bible quotations are the author's own concordant working translations from the ground text. For the Hebrew and Aramaic the Westminster Leningrad Codex (WLC / OSHB) was used; for the Greek of the New Testament the Textus Receptus (Scrivener, 1894), with the reading of the critical text (Nestle-Aland / Westcott-Hort) indicated at the load-bearing places. For the Septuagint the text of Rahlfs-Hanhart was consulted; for the textual criticism and the LXX bridges the printed NA28 / ECM and the Göttingen Septuagint stand as final authority.
The four marks — well documented · weighed · disputed · speculative — indicate the degree of certainty for each claim. Model-dependent readings (the Pre-AbominationPre-AbominationThe rapture model of this trilogy: the Bride is taken at the sixth seal (weighed), before the abomination (contested: that rests on the sequence), pre-wrath in mechanism, pre-abomination in timing. In the window the sixth seal falls around 2028-2029 and the abomination on Purim 2031 (the dates speculative). model) are marked as such.
Typeset in Lora and Lato (with DejaVu Serif for the polytonic Greek and Noto Serif Hebrew / Frank Ruhl Libre for the Hebrew), set with XeLaTeX.
The Wise — the vanguard in the crucible
An intra-biblical study of the maskilimMaskilim (משכילים)Hebrew for the wise or those who instruct. The term used in Daniel 11:33-35 and 12:3 for the wise teachers who shine like the stars during the seventieth week. Treated in chapter 17. of Daniel and the 144,000 of Revelation
Henk Visser MA
All Bible quotations are the author's own concordant working translations from the ground text. For the Hebrew and Aramaic the Westminster Leningrad Codex (WLC / OSHB) was used; for the Greek of the New Testament the Textus Receptus (Scrivener, 1894), with the reading of the critical text (Nestle-Aland / Westcott-Hort) indicated at the load-bearing places. For the Septuagint the text of Rahlfs-Hanhart was consulted; for the textual criticism and the LXX bridges the printed NA28 / ECM and the Göttingen Septuagint stand as final authority.
The four marks — well documented · weighed · disputed · speculative — indicate the degree of certainty for each claim. Model-dependent readings (the Pre-AbominationPre-AbominationThe rapture model of this trilogy: the Bride is taken at the sixth seal (weighed), before the abomination (contested: that rests on the sequence), pre-wrath in mechanism, pre-abomination in timing. In the window the sixth seal falls around 2028-2029 and the abomination on Purim 2031 (the dates speculative). model) are marked as such.
Typeset in Lora and Lato (with DejaVu Serif for the polytonic Greek and Noto Serif Hebrew / Frank Ruhl Libre for the Hebrew), set with XeLaTeX.
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