David

What kind of hateful bigot gets up in the middle of a war when ballistic missiles are flying and says ‘I have an idea! Let’s go burn homes and cars of Palestinians’ WTF? These people are disgusting, this is terrorism, and I hope they rot in prison.

Fun fact, before the site's [Valley of Hinnom; Gehenna evolved from referring to the literal valley into a metaphorical concept] dark reputation developed during the late First Temple period [8th–7th centuries BC], the Paleset, Ph'listm, Phillistines, or as we now call them, the Palestinians, were already in Palestine for 300-400 years, when they settled in southern Canaan, where they established the Philistine Pentapolis (Gaza, Ashkelon, Ashdod, Ekron, Gath) after their defeat against Ramsesses III ca. 1150 BC.

The Uncomfortable Truth of the Dead Sea Scrolls: Yahweh as One of the “Sons of God” and the Canaanite Origins of Biblical Faith The most revealing—and for some, unsettling—discoveries from the Dead Sea Scrolls concerns a single verse in the Book of Deuteronomy. It challenges the long-held assumption that ancient Israel’s religion was strictly monotheistic from its earliest days, confirming further more the deep roots in the polytheistic world of ancient Canaan. The passage is Deuteronomy 32:8-9, part of the ancient “Song of Moses.” In the standard Hebrew Bible, it reads:“When Elyon [the Most High] apportioned the nations, when he divided humankind, he fixed the boundaries of the peoples according to the number of the sons of Israel. For the Lord’s portion is his people; Jacob is his allotted heritage.” But the older manuscripts preserved in the Dead Sea Scrolls (specifically fragments like 4QDeut^j from around 100 BCE) and the ancient Greek Septuagint translation tell a very different story: “When Elyon gave the nations as an inheritance, when he separated the sons of man, he set the boundaries of the peoples according to the number of the sons of God [bene elohim or bene el]. For Yahweh’s portion was his people; Jacob was the lot of his inheritance.” Scholars across the spectrum—including textual critics and biblical historians—agree that the “sons of God” version is the original. The change to “sons of Israel” was a deliberate scribal alteration, likely made centuries later to remove what had become theologically embarrassing references to other divine beings. To understand why this verse was altered, we must step back into the world of ancient Canaan—the cultural and religious matrix from which Israel emerged around 1200 BCE. The key evidence comes from the spectacular discovery in 1929 of the city of Ugarit (modern Ras Shamra in Syria), a major Canaanite port that flourished between roughly 1400–1200 BCE. Excavations uncovered thousands of clay tablets written in Ugaritic, a language closely related to biblical Hebrew. These texts paint a vivid picture of Canaanite religion: El (also called El Elyon, “God Most High,” or “Bull El”) was the patriarchal head of the pantheon—the wise creator, father of gods and humans. His consort was Asherah, “Creatress of the gods” and mother of the divine family. Together they had seventy sons—the “sons of El” or “sons of God” (Ugaritic bn il or bn athrt). These formed the divine council or assembly that governed the cosmos. The number seventy is no coincidence. It exactly matches the traditional seventy nations listed in Genesis 10 (the “Table of Nations”). In Canaanite mythology, El Elyon divided the world among his seventy divine sons, each receiving a people and territory as an inheritance. Now return to Deuteronomy 32:8-9. The “Most High” (Elyon) is the one doing the dividing—precisely the role of the high god El in Ugaritic texts. He assigns each nation to one of the “sons of God.” Then comes the crucial line: “Yahweh’s portion is his people; Jacob is his allotted heritage.” In the older worldview preserved by the Dead Sea Scrolls, this means Yahweh was one of those seventy divine sons. El Elyon gave him the people of Israel as his special inheritance—just as other sons received other nations. This fits a broader pattern in the Hebrew Bible, henotheism—the worship of one god (Yahweh) while acknowledging the existence of others. Traces remain: Psalm 82 depicts God standing in the divine council, judging the other gods. Deuteronomy 4:19-20 says Yahweh allotted the heavenly bodies to the other nations but took Israel for himself. Inscriptions from Kuntillet Ajrud (8th century BC) even mention “Yahweh…and his Asherah,” showing that some Israelites still paired Yahweh with El’s consort. After the Babylonian Exile, the Israelite religion evolved, and Yahweh absorbed El’s titles, and the other “sons of God” were demoted to angels or declared non-existent.

The Dead Sea Scrolls (discovered in 1947) contain manuscripts of the Book of Isaiah from over 2000 years ago. When compared to the copies we have today, the text was nearly identical. Isaiah 40:8 - "The word of our God endures forever.”

He is 58 years old. She is only 7. She doesn't even know what's happening. I will never find this normal. Any culture that allows this is evil!

Between 1917-1946, the Bolsheviks killed over 60 million Christians... yet, you won't be taught about that

Catholics are God's chosen people not Israel.

There is no "Messianic Judaism." There is Judaism, and there is Christianity. The hyphen in the middle doesn’t preserve Judaism — it tries to replace it. Am Yisrael Chai ✡️

Gehenna. Jewish hell. It is where the Master of the Universe sends Jew haters when they depart this mortal coil. If anti-Semites only understood the agony that awaits them...well...they would still be FUBAR. The searing flames. The cruel torment. And subsisting on gefilte fish!