Dr. Nehemia Gordon - Bible Scholar at NehemiasWall.com Nehemia Gordon

In this episode of Hebrew Voices #185 - A Biblical Understanding of Passover Leaven (Chametz), Nehemia does a deep-dive into what exactly is or isn’t prohibited during the Feast of Unleavened Bread. He distinguishes the 3 Hebrew words all translated into English as “leaven”, describes how drastically different modern food production is from ancient times, and cuts through the controversy about alcohol.



















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VERSES MENTIONEDExodus 12:15Exodus 12:19-20Deuteronomy 16:4Exodus 13:3Exodus 13:7Exodus 12:33-39Exodus 23:18Exodus 34:25Deuteronomy 16:2-3Leviticus 2:11Leviticus 7Exodus 12:19-20Numbers 6:3Proverbs 10:26Leviticus 23:12-13Numbers 28







RELATED EPISODESHebrew Voices EpisodesSupport Team Study - Pesach: Feast of ProtectionHebrew Voices – Passover SpecialSupport Team Study – Calculating Passover in the Middle AgesHebrew Voices #67 – Was the Last Supper a Passover SederSupport Team Study – Passover Letters from the Elephantine PapyriHebrew Voices #68 – An Early Christian PassoverSupport Team Study – Guess Who’s Coming to SederSupport Team Study – Aviv Barley and the Spirit of Constantine







OTHER LINKSTraditional Karaite Matzah RecipeWhen is Passover?Aviv Barley in the Biblical CalendarWhen was the Passover Sacrifice BroughtPassover and Leaven

In this episode of Hebrew Voices #183, Early Mormonism Revealed: Part 1, Nehemia continues his discussion with Dan Vogel exploring parallels between Mormonism and Islam, Joseph Smith’s attempt to establish a theocratic empire on the American frontier, and the rapidly-shifting nature of revelation and institutional religion.



















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VERSES MENTIONEDActs 2:44; 4:32Doctrine and Covenants 42 (originally “The Law”)2 Nephi 31:3 (Book of Mormon); Doctrine and Covenants 1:24Helaman 3 p.427; 5 p.445 (Book of Mormon 1830 edition)Mosiah 8:13; 28:14–15, 20 (Book of Mormon)Ether 3 (Book of Mormon)Qur’an 2:23; 10:38; 11:13; 17:88; 52:34Jeremiah 36:17-18BOOKS MENTIONEDOn Charisma and Institution Buildingby Max Weber, S. N. Eisenstadt







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OTHER LINKSDan Vogel’s YT channelFAIR Mormon Apologetic SiteThe Joseph Smith PapersWitnesses (2021)

In this episode of Hebrew Voices #184: Creation vs. Evolution: Raw and Unedited, Young Earth creationist Kent Hovind of DrDino.com explains to Nehemia about the errors of evolution, dinosaurs on Noah's Ark, and the formation of heavy elements in stars. Nehemia's most controversial guest to date, Hovind describes himself as a "lowly high school science teacher with a non-accredited degree from a Christian school who happens to believe [the Bible] is true and evolution is not only stupid it's dangerous."



















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In this episode of Hebrew Voices, The Man Who Taught His Children Ancient Greek: Part 1, Nehemia joins Cambridge University lecturer Dr. Benjamin Kantor to discuss using manuscript errors and transcriptions to reconstruct old Greek and Hebrew pronunciations. 



















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VERSES MENTIONEDJudges 12:5-6BOOKS MENTIONEDThe Pronunciation of New Testament Greek: Judeo-Palestinian Greek Phonology and Orthography from Alexander to Islamby Benjamin KantorThe Linguistic Classification of the Reading Traditions of Biblical Hebrew: A Phyla-and-Waves Modelby Benjamin Kantor







RELATED EPISODESHebrew Voices EpisodesSupport Team Study – Wow, It’s a Vav!Support Team Study – Bible Vowels of Ancient IsraelHebrew Voices #141 – When were the Hebrew Vowels Written DownSupport Team Study – The Vowels of the Aleppo Codex







OTHER LINKShttps://biblicalhebrew.com/https://www.koinegreek.com/(PDF) Recitation and Performance in Late Antique Hebrew: Linguistic Hints of a Performance Register in Greek and Latin Transcriptions of Biblical Hebrew from Late Antiquity (researchgate.net) by Ben KantorTHE SECOND COLUMN (SECUNDA) OF ORIGEN'S HEXAPLA IN LIGHT OF GREEK PRONUNCIATIONDissertation by Ben KantorThe LXX and Historical Greek Phonology: Orthography, Phonology, and Transcriptions | Benjamin P Kantor - Academia.eduby Ben Kantor

In this episode of Hebrew Voices, The Woman Who Writes Torah Scrolls, Nehemia joins Avielah Barclay, the first female Jewish scribe in modern times. They discuss why Judaism clings to such ancient technology, how writing with the proper intent is just as important as the correct content, and erasing mistakes in accordance with a variety of Jewish traditions.



















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VERSES MENTIONEDGenesis 24:12, 27, 42, 48Genesis 19:5 Deuteronomy 6:9; 11:20 Jeremiah 17:1 Gittin 45b (Talmud) Ezra 2:55; Nehemiah 7:57Esther 1 Genesis 19:18 Deuteronomy 25:17-19; Exodus 17:8-16 Genesis 24:63 Exodus 11:7BOOKS MENTIONEDEven Sapir (1866) by Rabbi Yaakov SapirRELATED EPISODESHebrew Voices EpisodesSupport Team Study – Paleo-Hebrew and Papal Parchment RepairHebrew Voices #142 – Sign Language of the SynagogueHebrew Voices #145 – Decorative DoohickeysSupport Team Study – The Dog Ate My Torah Scroll OTHER LINKSOnline Course - Introduction to Hebrew Calligraphy (Allison Barclay (Avielah)) | DomestikaSoferet Avielah Barclay (@soferetavielah) • Instagram photos and videosSoferet (2006)Dr. Gordon’s PhD dissertation:The Writing, Erasure, and Correction of the Tetragrammaton in Medieval Hebrew Bible ManuscriptsTo email Avielha: soferet.avielah@gmail.comAvielah’s (outdated) website: http://soferet.com

In this episode of Hebrew Voices, SBL Reactions 2023: Part 1, Nehemia joins Dr. Kim Phillips and Nelson Calvillo to share the highlights of the most important annual conference on biblical studies including a review of the scholarly work of TikTok-famous bible pundit Dan MacClellan and another session about a groundbreaking theory on the origins of ancient Hebrew accent marks.















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VIDEO CHAPTERS00:00 Intro01:46 Ta’amim & prosody23:00 Saying the quiet part out loud38:44 Outro











VERSES MENTIONEDGenesis 1:1Deuteronomy 26:52 Kings 212 Chronicles 33Judges 18Psalm 68

















BOOKS MENTIONEDYHWH’s Divine Images: A Cognitive Approachby Daniel O. McClellan











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Support Team Study – MORE Society of Biblical Literature Reactions 2021Hebrew Voices #144 – The Scribe of the Leningrad CodexSupport Team Study – Bible Vowels of Ancient IsraelHebrew Voices #142 – Sign Language of the Synagogue















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Moving On from the Law of Continuous Dichotomy | Sophia L Pitcher - Academia.edu

Sophia L Pitcher | University of the Free State - Academia.edu

“The Application of Thought to Textual Criticism” by A.E. Housman