Tag: Hebrew

Atonement for Sin in the Hebrew Bible

Rabbinic Jews and Christians agree the sacrificial system of the Tanakh (for Christians, the Old Testament) is currently obsolete. However, they differ on what replaced it. Did blood sacrifice atone for unintentional sins only? Are prayer and repentance sufficient for God’s forgiveness? Or ...

New Archaeological Reading Provides Proof of the Accuracy of the Hebrew Bible

This is almost identical to the Bible description which reads “Hezekiah son of Ahaz, king of Judah,” “Make the pool and the conduit,” “brought … the water into the city,” “smote the Philistines… as far as Gaza,” “broke the images an...

TaatikNet: Sequence-to-Sequence Learning for Hebrew Transliteration

Such tasks are known collectively as Sequence-to-Sequence (Seq2seq) Learning. In all of these tasks, the input and desired output are strings, which may be of different lengths and which are usually not in one-to-one correspondence with each other. Suppose you have a dataset of paired exampl...