Bethsheba Ashe bethshebaashe@gmail.com www.shematria.com Hermeneutics and Biblical Studies. Abstract. By using the correct number sets for the Tanakh and the New Testament, 21 examples of biblical gematria are presented in an attempt to pass the threshold of reasonable doubt about the … [Read more...]
Hear O Israel the Lord Is Our God the Lord is one!
[First published on DEC 25, 2018, 6:25 AM; https://blogs.timesofisrael.com/hear-o-israel-the-lord-is-our-god-the-lord-is-one/]. Welcome to a special installment of my blog on gematria, the merkabah and the birth of the alephbet. Today I wish to share with you some truly amazing, beautiful and … [Read more...]
The Lost Art of Gematria
Welcome to my blog. With this blog I’ve elected to speak upon Biblical Gematria, the Merkabah, and the birth of the alephbet. If you have any questions or comments, please feel free to express them in the comments section below. “If I were asked to characterize the gematria of the … [Read more...]
Genesis and the Tarot.
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 … [Read more...]
Ezekiel’s “living creatures”…
The biblical text that is most associated with the Divine Chariot is Ezekiel; who gives an account of a vision where there were wheels inside of other wheels, and a living creature of four faces; that of an ox and a lion and an eagle and a man. The vision is actually a calculation to indicate … [Read more...]
Conformations of the Tree of Life
The Tree of Life - showing Malkuth being added to Yesod - Portae Lucis, Augsberg 1516. The Seven Palaces were hidden under the cipher of the Tree of Life and finding them required a student that was curious enough to ask themselves "I wonder what the original conformations of this diagram looked … [Read more...]