Welcome

to TheBibleNet

An unparalleled resource for non-faith commentary and exegesis of the Bible, for students and scholars of all ages.

To find you way around these pages, click "SURF THE SITE" in the Navigation Bar on the right-hand side of every page, or type what you are looking for in the box at the top-left corner of every page.

For a full exegesis of the history, customs and texts of the Jewish daily prayer service, read David Prashker's "A Myrtle Among Reeds" - click here to purchase a copy.

For a full exegesis of the history, customs and texts of Yom Kippur, read David Prashker's "Day of Atonement" - click here to purchase a copy.

And for the full life of King David, seen through the same lens as TheBibleNet, read David Prashker's two part historical novel "City of Peace"; click here to purchase Part 1 "The Red-Headed First-Born", click here to purchase Part 2 "The Waxing of the Moon"

COMMENCING MAY 2019, THIS SITE IS GOING THROUGH ITS NEXT

MAJOR STAGE OF DEVELOPMENT (see below , in green, for what's happening two years on)

with every page updated, based on all the work that has been done since the blog was first posted in November 2015. 

To see those files that are already available, simply click here and Surf the Site - you can find the SurfTheSite in the Navigation Bar on the right hand side of every page.

Currently you will find:

The Five Books of Mosheh (Moses) - text, translation, transliteration and commentary: Bere'shit (Genesis), Shemot (Exodus), Va Yikra (Leviticus), Be Midbar (Numbers), Devarim (Deuteronomy)

as well as a

"Dictionary Of Names" for the people and places referred to in those books, with a separate section called "The Realm of Mythology" for all the non-Yehudit (Hebrew) gods and goddesses (though there are overlaps).

and a great deal more besides, including

Essays on specific subjects

and

Translations of major works from the wider realm of the Bible, such as the Egyptian "Am Tuat" and "The Tale of the Two Brothers".

The Book of Yehoshu'a (Joshua) - added, June 2019

Shophtim (The Book of Judges) - added, August 2019

The Ghetto of the Christians - added March 2020, with pages on every one of the "Lost" and "Forbidden" Gospels, and the four Canonical Gospels to follow shortly, as well as a full pre-history of Jesus, setting the religious and political context of his epoch.

The five key books from the epoch of the writing down of the Tanach, collected under the shared title "The Book of the Return from Exile":

Ezra, Chagai (Haggai) and Zechar-Yah: added June 2020

Nechem-Yah (Nehemiah) and Malachi, (Zechariah) added July 2020

a detailed account of the writing of the Tanach at that time, and a narrative "walking tour of Biblical Jerusalem", are in process of completion. 

and commencing March 2022, starting with an introduction and adding them one by one, the complete Book of Psalms (Tehilim)

Yesha-Yahu (Isaiah) will then follow, but may take a little longer.

And for the travellers in time and place among you:

A Walking-Tour of Jerusalem

"The Badge & The Cross": a history of the Jews of the UK

The Travels of Benjamin of Tudeila

all three currently under under construction

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How will I know what is original and what is the update?

Very simple: if the Bible text uses the word "Hebrew", it's the original; if instead is uses the word "Yehudit", it has been updated.

If the Transliteration is in unbolded purple, and the King James likewise, it's the original; if, instead, the Transliteration is in Bold, and the King James in Burgundy Red, it has been updated.

If the copyright at the foot of the page does not have the Argaman helix logo, it's the original; if it does, it has been updated.

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