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Revelation Chapter 17 — Cochin Manuscripts Interlinear Workbook

Discover What the Original Hebrew New Testament Manuscripts from Cochin, India Reveal About the Great Harlot, the Beast, and Babylon

From The Cochin Manuscript

When a Brooklyn hardware merchant asked Jonathan Felt if he wanted to immerse a pot in rainwater, it sparked a question his translation team couldn't shake: the same Hebrew verb used for koshering dishes — taval — is the verb used for what happened at the Jordan River. So what was John's actual role?

Drawing on five Hebrew manuscripts of Luke, the Dead Sea Scrolls, the Mishnah, and Torah purification law, this essay traces a pattern that holds from Genesis to the Gospels: the person needing purification always immerses themselves. Never once, outside a single instance, is it someone else who dunks them.

Step inside one of the most remarkable manuscript discoveries in modern biblical scholarship — the Hebrew New Testament manuscripts recovered from a "synagogue of the black Jews" in Cochin, India.

This workbook walks you verse-by-verse through Revelation Chapter 17 using the two Cochin manuscripts: the Cambridge MS Oo.1.16.2 (the older Sephardic-script copy attributed to Ezekiel Rahabi and Leopold van Dort) and the Gaster MS 1616 (the modern square-script copy by David Cohen, housed at Manchester's Rylands Library).

Inside you'll find:

Verse-by-verse Hebrew Text Translation rendered into clear English, compared side-by-side with the King James Version
Full-color pageview images of both manuscripts for every verse, so you can see the actual ink on the page
Verified Hebrew transcriptions, with differences between the two manuscripts marked in red
A complete interlinear chart breaking down every single word — root, grammar, and meaning — so you can read the manuscript yourself, word by word
Scholarly footnotes flagging grammatical quirks, Second Temple-period vocabulary, and unique spellings that help date and authenticate the text

Follow the vision of the great harlot seated on many waters, the scarlet-appearance beast with seven heads and ten horns, and the ultimate revelation that "the woman that you saw is the great city, the kings over all the kings of the earth" (Rev. 17:18) — all from the Hebrew of the Cochin Manuscripts, not just a translation of a translation.

Whether you're a Hebrew student, a manuscript researcher, or simply hungry to read Revelation the way these ancient Jewish believers preserved it, this workbook gives you direct access to the text.

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