Posts by itsibitsybrainbutbigenoughtosmellarat

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Somebody bite on the Daniel 5:25 NWT-Cross Reference Why Half Shekel? Not half mene?

by itsibitsybrainbutbigenoughtosmellarat in

i wanna talk about this more....please.

itsibitsybrainbutbigenoughtosmellarat

Thanks for starting it off. What has my focus is the Babylonian currency.

The three words were common ones in the Chaldaic language, but they also were words used to describe units of Babylonian money. The base unit of their ancient monetary system was the gerah. Twenty of these gerahs formed one shekel [or, tekel]. One thousand gerahs made a Minah [or, Mena]. While there was no coin known as a Peres or Upharsin [the plural of Peres], the word meaning division was used as we use the word half in much the same manner as we refer to a half dollar. It referred to a half Minah(* see below), being equal to 500 gerahs. Treating these words as monetary units, then, we find:

Mena 1000 gerahs
Mena 1000 gerahs
Tekel 20 gerahs
Upharsin 500 gerahs
Total 2520 gerahs

times of the Gentiles happens to be 2,520 ?

Dan. 5:25-28

Insight Vol. II, page 1178

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Somebody bite on the Daniel 5:25 NWT-Cross Reference Why Half Shekel? Not half mene?

by itsibitsybrainbutbigenoughtosmellarat in

i wanna talk about this more....please.

itsibitsybrainbutbigenoughtosmellarat

I wanna talk about this more....please

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Missing references in CD

by peacefulpete in

another thread asked regarding references that have fallen from the wt cd and i recalled an interesting example that i recognized years ago.

when the first cd came out i and an elder looked up romans 2:16 and found at least 2 articles, maybe 3, that used the passage to say that some nonjws might be saved at armagedon if they acted conscienciously and had limited knowledge of the wt message.

both were 70's awakes if i remember right.

itsibitsybrainbutbigenoughtosmellarat

I think there are compatibility programs available allowing older software to be run in it. You would have to check into it. Perhaps a search like

running win98 or win95 files in Windows 7

for ex.

this article looks like it walks you through the steps to run these types of earlier programs on newer operating systems.

http://www.howtogeek.com/howto/windows-vista/using-windows-vista-compatibility-mode/

Daniel 5:25 NWT-Cross Reference Why Half Shekel? Not half mene?

by itsibitsybrainbutbigenoughtosmellarat in

this is a real teaser!.

many bible commentators as well as wtb&ts suggest daniel interpretation indicating a half shekel would be in keeping with many other instances of the usage of the half shekel throughout the bible and was what daniel refered to.

however some early bible students and writers feel there was another meaning to the mene, mene, tekel , parsin.. no fair polling the internet looking for explanantions.

itsibitsybrainbutbigenoughtosmellarat

This is a real teaser!

Many Bible commentators as well as WTB&TS suggest Daniel interpretation indicating a half shekel would be in keeping with many other instances of the usage of the half shekel throughout the bible and was what Daniel refered to. However some early bible students and writers feel there was another meaning to the mene, mene, tekel , parsin.

No fair polling the internet looking for explanantions.:) Look at the vss, insight books etc.. or hint (weights and measures)

I agree with these earlier bible students. I feel an error is made in this instance in using the half shekel as the amount. Rather it should in fact be the half mina or mene.

In order to prompt interchange among you posters, here then is the question??

Why does it almost certainly have to be the half mene?

Please follow this thread if you are unfamiliar with this information because to me, it is is most compelling with regard to bible prophesy, the FDS...etc....

itsi....

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1960 New World Translation of the Hebrew Scriptures--PDF!

by Atlantis in

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bookmarked and searchable 1960 new wrold translation of the hebrew scriptures-pdf http://www.sendspace.com/file/lob9xf --------------------------------------------------- here are the links to the entire set: 1950/51 http://www.sendspace.com/file/1mxtic 1953 http://www.sendspace.com/file/oyqg2i 1955 http://www.sendspace.com/file/xsl6kb 1957 http://www.sendspace.com/file/o1vvou 1958 http://www.sendspace.com/file/dxadmv 1960 http://www.sendspace.com/file/lob9xf atlantis!

itsibitsybrainbutbigenoughtosmellarat

Much appreciated .

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Was It a Fig Tree From Which Eve and Adam Ate?

by snowbird in

book of jasher .

14 and it was in the fifty-sixth year of the life of lamech when adam died; nine hundred and thirty years old was he at his death, and his two sons, with enoch and methuselah his son, buried him with great pomp, as at the burial of kings, in the cave which god had told him.

15 and in that place all the sons of men made a great mourning and weeping on account of adam; it has therefore become a custom among the sons of men to this day.

itsibitsybrainbutbigenoughtosmellarat

I think rather than the fig in the tree it was the "PEAR" on the ground!!hohoho!

itsi

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Did Pope Approve the New World Translation "JW Bible"?

by cameo-d in

i read somewhere that the vatican has to approve all translations.. if they had to approve the nwt, wouldn't that mean that the jws come under the jurisdiction of the papacy?.

itsibitsybrainbutbigenoughtosmellarat

Oh yah! what he said??

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Archives!

by Atlantis in

http://www.archive.org/download/watchtowerlibrary/magazines/w/w1890.pdf 1891-1900. http://www.archive.org/download/watchtowerlibrary/magazines/w/w1891.pdf.

http://www.archive.org/download/watchtowerlibrary/magazines/w/w1900.pdf 1901-1910. http://www.archive.org/download/watchtowerlibrary/magazines/w/w1901.pdf.

http://www.archive.org/download/watchtowerlibrary/magazines/w/w1910.pdf 1911-1920. http://www.archive.org/download/watchtowerlibrary/magazines/w/w1911.pdf.

itsibitsybrainbutbigenoughtosmellarat

The Awakes available at http://wtarchive.svhelden.info/ are a real find.

Thanks

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1967 & 1968 Kingdom Ministries -- PDF!

by cabasilas in

for those researchers who would be interested in the kingdom ministries before those that appear on the wt library cd-rom (which starts at the year 1970):.

here are two more years (us edition), which can be downloaded at the following filesharing site:.

1966 km reduced size (20 mb).

itsibitsybrainbutbigenoughtosmellarat

Got it and thank you very much.

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Did Pope Approve the New World Translation "JW Bible"?

by cameo-d in

i read somewhere that the vatican has to approve all translations.. if they had to approve the nwt, wouldn't that mean that the jws come under the jurisdiction of the papacy?.

itsibitsybrainbutbigenoughtosmellarat

I doubt this would apply to the present day with "free thought" abundant. Old world periods were under control of the Pope and undoubedly prior to printing would have to have his approval before any distribution would occur. This attitude on the papacy's part prompted "underground bibles" and not a few martyrs through those dark ages of Christianity.