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11. The Jewish Scriptures are called the Tanakh. This name is a Hebrew acronym for the three divisions of the Hebrew Scriptures: The Torah (the first five books of Moses—Genesis through Deuteronomy), the Nevi’im (Prophets), and Kutuvim (Writings), or TaNaK. Chapter 1 Living by Heaven’s Rule Book 1. Flavius Josephus, Antiquities of the Jews , book 1, chapter 2, section 3, http://bible.crosswalk.com/History/BC/FlaviusJosephus/?book=Ant_1&chapter=2 (accessed October 31, 2008). 2. Jacob’s name was changed by God to Israel. Following this change, his sons were no longer identified as just the sons of Jacob, but the children of Israel (Gen. 32:32), a term found 630 times in the 1611 King James translation of the Bible. 3. Tour Egypt, “Egypt Mythology,” http://interoz.com/egypt/gods1.htm (accessed September 4, 2008). 4. The AishDas Society, “Pamphlet 9—The Letters of the Torah,” Torat Emet , http://www.aishdas.org/toratemet/en_pamphlet9.html (accessed September 4, 2008). 5. For more information on the genetic studies of the tribe of Levi, see a report by Rabbi Yaakov Kleiman, “The DNA Chain of Tradition,” Jewish Genes & Genealogy, http://www.cohen-levi.org/ (accessed September 4, 2008). 6. David Goldstein, Jacob’s Legacy (New Haven, CT: Yale University Press, 2008). 7. The Talmud is a commentary of Jewish discussion concerning the oral law as it relates to Jewish law, ethics, customs, and history. It attempts to clarify parts of the Torah that may not be clear. There is both a Jerusalem and Babylonian Talmud. 8. The three fall feasts are Trumpets, Atonement, and Tabernacles. Numerous prophetic teachers believe that Trumpets is a picture of the gathering of the church (1Thess. 4:16–17; Eph. 1:9–10), Atonement is a picture of the coming great tribulation (Matt. 24:21), and Tabernacles is a picture of the coming thousand-year reign of the Messiah (Rev. 20:4). Chapter 2 The Secret in the Covenant 1. W. E. Vine, Vine’s Expository Dictionary of Old and New Testament Words (Nashville, TN: Thomas Nelson, 1997). 2. Ibid., 52–53. 3. The word signet comes from the Latin signum , meaning “sign.” The ancient