The verses of the Torah were first publicly numbered (as we find them today) by Robert Estienne (Robert Stephanus) in 1571, but the move was not without criticism at the time from traditionalists. The original manuscripts did not contain the chapter and verse divisions in a numbered form. Hebrew … [Read more...]
What the apple really was… (spoiler alert – it wasn’t sex).
Introduction. The bible is stuffed with apparently unexplained metaphors, which is one of the reasons why people have speculated over it for thousands of years; in the seeming absence of any type of clarification people have delighted in putting forward their own. In the case of the fruit … [Read more...]