When You Backslide 7 More Wicked Spirits Will Return – Jerrence’s Testimony

https://onemomentoflove7.wordpress.com/2026/05/12/when-you-backslide-7-more-wicked-spirits-will-return-jerrences-testimony/

A look at Hosea and Gomer, That time a Prophet married a Prostitute. No seriously. Check out my new post for more.

https://assemblybethesda.com/hosea-and-gomer-a-prophets-marriage-to-a-prostitute/

#Hosea, #Gomer, #prophet #marriage, #prostitute #redemption, #biblicalmarriage

New publications and podcast

Busy year for publications (think that’s it for me this year):

Semitic *ʾilāh- and Hebrew אלהים‎: From plural ‘gods’ to singular ‘God’ (Open Access)

Abstract: The Biblical Hebrew word אלהים‎ is plural in form. Semantically and syntactically, however, it can be plural or singular. The stem of this noun can be reconstructed as * ʾilāh-. As already noted by Wellhausen, this looks like a broken plural of *ʾil-, the Proto-Semitic word for ‘god’. This article takes Wellhausen’s observation and uses it to explain the plural morphology of Hebrew אלהים‎. I argue that *ʾilāh- should be reconstructed with redundant plural suffixes in some parts of the paradigm. This reconstructed paradigm is preserved virtually unchanged in Archaic Biblical Hebrew. The reconstructed paradigm also explains the almost complete replacement of *ʾil- by *ʾilāh- in Aramaic and Arabic and allows us to reassess the reasons for the association between the lexeme ‘god’ and plural number. Consequently, earlier suggestions that see אלהים‎’s plural number as a reflection of pre-Yahwistic polytheism or as a marker of abstractness are no longer tenable.

The varying size of the Sodom coalition in Genesis 14 (in FS Tigchelaar; email me for a PDF)

Trying my hardest to find something that might interest newly retired KU Leuven professor Eibert Tigchelaar, I used some Dead Sea Scrolls and other Second Temple literature as well as other textual and linguistic evidence to seek for order in the number of kings on Sodom’s side in Gen 14. Turns out that this closely aligns with other indications of different layers in this fascinating chapter: one about a local raid, one that may be a reworking of a lost epic, and a third one building on the combination of the first two. If you understand Dutch (or want to practice!), also check out this brand new episode of Timo Epping’s Oudheid, all about this question.

#AncientSouthArabian #Arabic #Aramaic #Bible #Canaanite #GeEz #Genesis #Hebrew #Hosea #linguistics #news #Phoenician #ProtoSemitic

Hosea: Salvation - Stephen Clayden
Bread of Life Community Church – Clacton on Sea

As He says also in Hosea:
“I will call them My people, who were not My people,
And her beloved, who was not beloved.”
“And it shall come to pass in the place where it was said to them,
‘You are not My people,’
There they shall be called sons of the living God.”
Romans 9.25-26

#churchleadership #faith #Hosea #jesus #jesuschrist #Messiah #salvation

https://lightforthelastdays.co.uk/articles/jesus-and-judaism/hosea-salvation/

Du wirst mit Hilfe deines Gottes zurückkehren; bewahre die Liebe und das Recht und hoffe immer auf deinen Gott! Hosea 12,7

#Bibel #Hosea #bibelverse #glaube #christlich
https://glaubemir.de/du-wirst-mit-hilfe-deines-gottes/?feed_id=3102&_unique_id=678358cb1de3c