ASIN: B00D279K6S
Publisher: W. Lawrence Lipton
Pages: 72
People avoid numbers, especially when they are entombed in their religious text. It is easier to write them off as fantasy then to assign them a factual, meaningful, basis for existing. This book deals with The Omer – a unit of Biblical measure equal to 49 – and a few of its sister units.In reality, there is very little to be said of Omer, variations on its usage were so pervasive that a tablet dated between 1350bce (HY2412) and 1335bce (HY2427), thirty years before the Exodus, before the writing of Genesis, Omer was a formal salutation in a plea for help written by the Canaanite King Ayyab to Pharaoh Amenhotep IV. But its true significance, like that of is sister numbers, was in its ability to reveal the scope, and depth, of ancient astrological knowledge.That being said, readers of the New Testament might recognize OMER in Matthew 18:22, where Jesus commands that forgiveness be give ...
