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"And he [the man in linen] said, "Go, Daniel, for the matters are obscured and sealed until the time of the End." " -- Dan 12:25

I think an argument based on the pointings (vowels and accents) provided by the Massoretes in the 6th century is exceptionally weak. Daniel is not easy reading. I suspect that this portion of Daniel is a late addition, possibly worked up and inserted in the Maccabean Era, intended to pretend...

I found a most informative article: Roger T. Beckwith, Daniel 9 and the Date of Messiah's Coming in Essene, Hellenistic, Pharisaic, Zealot and Early Christian Computation, Revue de Quimran, vol. 10, nr. 1 (Dec 1981) pp. 521-542. https://www.jstor.org/stable/24607004

I am sticking with Maimonides's interpretation.

I am under the impression that TwoNotable has carried the day.

Is there a way to combine the top two threads since they are both debates between the same two members?

The NKJV claims to be newly translated from the same sources used by the 1611 KJV, namely the OT by Ben-Hayyim (which I personally doubt was the edition used by the KJV), and the TR (I assume Scrivener's edition "Underlying the AV" altho Scrivener conceded that some KJV readings could not be...

To my tiny mind, getting people to read any Bible, even the NKJV (not to disparage it), is better than having a KJV on the shelf gathering cobwebs.

The problem is that KJVOs cannot identify the "pure line" Greek and Hebrew texts. The KJV has readings that cannot be found in any Greek NT, and also readings in the OT that do not match any one Hebrew source.

I am unclear on what a "counterfeit Bible" is. The NKJV (and the KJV2 and some others) are real enough Bibles, altho I wouldn't use them. But I cannot deny that they are Bibles. Perhaps someone can explain to me what a counterfeit Bible is.

But Bruce Metzger, in his Textual Commentary (p. 717), says "the passage [namely the Comma] is absent from the manuscripts of all ancient versions (Syriac, Coptic, Armenian, Ethiopic, Arabic, Slavonic) except the Latin, and it is not found in the Old Latin in its early form (Tertullian Cyprian...

I made a mistake. The word in question is not unique but it is a unique form of the word for different or change. Strong's 8138. The Brown-Driver-Briggs lexicon (p. 1040, col. 1) translates Prov 24:21 as those who change but immediately adds a note that this rendering has been doubted. My...

Jewish resistance to Christian missionaries is very likely based on the historical Christian oppression of Jews, going back to the Age of Constantine, through the Spanish and Portuguese Inquisitions, the expulsions from England and other countries, and, oh yes, something in the last hundred...

There are Scriptural clues that the Egyptians objected to Hebrew slaves sacrificing lambs, but I have never found a reference suggesting that lambs were either sacred or taboo to the Egyptians. The Passover liturgy says God executed judgment upon the Egyptians' gods; the Egyptian deities are...

The last word is translated in the Aramaic Targum and in the Syriac as "fools". The Hebrew word appears only here and has to be guessed at.