The Gematria of the Acrostic תהלים/Psalms 112:1-10

This weeks Torah study ends with תהלים/Psalms 112, and the first ten verses are an alphabetic acrostic. There are exactly 86 letters involved in...

Bethsheba Ashe

20 01.09.2021

Real Gematria

Real Gematria is a formal system of early mathematics. It might not fit modern ideas of mathematics, but for a scribe that was writing at the time of...

Bethsheba Ashe

2 19.07.2021

Scribal methods?

Hello. I’m an author/researcher that writes about Gematria, the Merkabah and the birth of the Alphabet. My books are ‘Chariot’, ‘The Genesis...

Bethsheba Ashe

10 04.06.2021

The problem with so-called ‘old-school’ bible studies.

If you take a degree in Biblical Studies today (especially in the USA, and especially in their Christian colleges) then you’re liable to emerge from...

Bethsheba Ashe

10 13.04.2021

I am that I am ~ Light and Darkness (Exodus 3:14)

That’s all for today. In the works – the ‘How to’ gematria guide that I’m writing (“Behold”) is approaching completion and should be...

Bethsheba Ashe

7 03.02.2021

Using gematria to solve textural corruptions

Welcome back to my blog on gematria, the merkabah and the birth of the alephbet. Today I’m going to talk about corruptions in the text of the Tanakh...

Bethsheba Ashe

3 09.01.2021

What is a pseudo-cipher?

Welcome back to my blog on gematria, the merkabah and the birth of the alephbet. Today I’m going to explain to you what a pseudo-cipher is. I’ll...

Bethsheba Ashe

20 29.12.2020

What is a cover-cipher?

Welcome back to my blog on gematria, the merkabah and the birth of the alephbet. Today I’m going to explain to you what a cover-cipher is, and what...