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There are places where the explanation we have long heard seems not to match the text. We look at those places again in the original.
These pieces are not arguing for a new doctrine. They follow, alongside the original languages, what the text actually says. You are free to disagree with the conclusions. We only ask that you look at the text once.
Each piece can be read in full at Bible studies.
Passover and Easter
How the two festivals sit on the calendar, and what happened between them — traced through the dates the text itself gives.
The last supper and three days and three nights
The dates that come out when “three days and three nights” is counted as it stands, set against each Gospel's account.
The moadim of YHWH
The appointed times set out in Leviticus 23, arranged in a single chart. And that moed means a festival and at the same time an appointment kept.
The offerings of the moadim
The offerings prescribed in Numbers 28–29, moved into a table festival by festival. A regularity emerges that is hard to see when read scattered.
Opse (ὀψέ)
The span of time actually indicated by the Greek word rendered “evening” in the New Testament, followed through its occurrences.
Para (παρά)
How one prefix, present or absent, changes the sense of a sentence — checked in a number of New Testament places.
The directional he
What a single letter attached to the end of a Hebrew word points to. The thing most easily erased in translation.
What was Jacob waiting for?
A look at the one sentence Jacob slips in while blessing his sons in Genesis 49.
The secret in the name Yeshua
“YHWH is salvation” — how that name and the word for salvation grew from one root in Hebrew.
Translator's afterword
What we tried to preserve in this translation, and where we hesitated.
You can read these together in a gathering
If your gathering has finished the first year of YLV Bible Study, reading one of these pieces together each time makes a good second year. It works well if each person reads a piece beforehand and then you open that text together.