tagged: Jewish Antiquities • the Open Siddur Project ✍ פְּרוֺיֶּקט הַסִּדּוּר הַפָּתוּחַ

דָּנִיֵּאל וְהַתַּנִּין | Daniel vs. the Dragon, according to the Aramaic text of Divrei Yeraḥmiel (ca. 12th c.)

Contributor(s):

Aharon N. Varady (transcription), Moses Gaster (translation), Yeraḥmiel ben Shlomo and Unknown Author(s)

Categories:

Second Temple Period

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Jewish Antiquities, dragons, iconoclastic, the Pit, captive animals, Aramaic, קפיצת הדרך ḳfitsat haderekh, anti-predatory, חבקוק Ḥabaquq, Antiquity, captives, deuterocanonical works

The story of Daniel and the dragon held captive by the neo-Babylonians found in Aramaic in the Divrei Yeraḥmiel (the Chronicles of Jeraḥmeel, Oxford Bodleian Heb d.11). . . .

💬 The Story of Gedalyah, as told by Titus Flavius Josephus in Antiquities of the Jews

Contributor(s):

Aharon N. Varady (transcription), Ralph Marcus (translation) and Titus Flavius Josephus

Categories:

Second Temple Period, Tsom Gedalyah Readings

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assassination, 1st century C.E., 39th century A.M., Jewish Antiquities

The story of Gedaliah as recorded by Josephus in his Jewish Antiquities. . . .

💬 Σουσαννα | שׁוֹשַׁנָּה וְהַזְּקֵנִים | Shoshanah & the Elders, according to Theodotion translated and cantillated in Masoretic Hebrew by Isaac Gantwerk Mayer

Contributor(s):

Aharon N. Varady (transcription), Isaac Gantwerk Mayer (translation), Theodotion (translation/Greek) and Unknown Author(s)

Categories:

Second Temple Period

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Antiquity, sexual predation, deuterocanonical works, Jewish Antiquities, anti-predatory

The story of Shoshanah & the Elders, according to the text of Theodotion translated into Biblical Hebrew. . . .

💬 Βηλ Και Δρακων | בֵּל וְהַתַּנִּין | Bel & the Dragon, according to Theodotion translated and cantillated in Masoretic Hebrew by Isaac Gantwerk Mayer

Contributor(s):

Aharon N. Varady (transcription), Isaac Gantwerk Mayer (translation), Theodotion (translation/Greek) and Unknown Author(s)

Categories:

Second Temple Period

Tags:

Antiquity, captives, deuterocanonical works, Jewish Antiquities, dragons, iconoclastic, the Pit, captive animals, קפיצת הדרך ḳfitsat haderekh, anti-predatory

The story of Bel and the Dragon according to the text of Theodotion, translated into biblical Hebrew. . . .