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Footnote 1 - The Significance of the Scrolls

“Genizah” in Hebrew refers to a storage area where holy books and other Hebrew writings are “hidden away” (GNZ) after they are no longer usable, since discarding them otherwise would be an act of disrespect.

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Footnote 1 - An American Experience with a Locust Plague

All quotations from Howard Ensign Evans, Life on a Little-Known Planet (Chicago: Univ. of Chicago Press, 1984), pp. 195–226.

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Footnote 4 - Glossary

It was formerly known as 4QEx^a.

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Footnote 3 - Glossary

See Leonard J. Greenspoon, “Mission to Alexandria: Truth and Legend About the Creation of the Septuagint, the First Bible Translation,” BR 05:04.

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Footnote 2 - Glossary

B.C.E. (Before the Common Era) and C.E. (Common Era) are the scholarly alternate designations corresponding to B.C. and A.D.

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Footnote 1 - Glossary

Darrell Hannah, “New Testament Manuscripts: Uncials, Minuscules, Palimpsests and All That Stuff,” BR 06:01.

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Footnote 6 - “An Enormous Horde Arrayed for Battle”

Excluding newlywed husbands. See Deuteronomy 24:5.

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Footnote 5 - “An Enormous Horde Arrayed for Battle”

Although Joel 2:16 does not say “all,” the specifics of the call indicate that everybody is included, and a parallel passage (Joel 1:14) explicitly says “all.”