The Words of Gad the Seer: An Apparently Ancient Text With Intriguing Origins and Content

by Jeff Lindsay

Overview

Review of Meir Bar-Ilan, Words of Gad the Seer (Scotts Valley, CA: CreateSpace Publishing, 2016); Christian Israel, The Words of Gad the Seer: Bible Cross-Reference Edition (self-published, 2020); and Ken Johnson, Ancient Book of Gad the Seer: Referenced in 1 Chronicles 29:29 and Alluded to in 1 Corinthians 12:12 and Galatians 4:26 (self-published, 2016).

Abstract: A long-overlooked Hebrew document from an ancient Jewish colony in Cochin, India, purports to contain the words of Gad the Seer. Professor Meir Bar-Ilan has translated the text into English and has stirred interest in the fascinating document. At least two other English translations are also now available. Here we examine the story of the coming forth of the text and some issues of possible interest to Latter-day Saints, including some of Bar-Ilan's insights in evaluating the antiquity of disputed texts. Bar-Ilan's translation of this intriguing document and his related publications may be valuable for anyone with an interest in the Hebrew scriptures and ancient Judaism.

Product Details

BN ID:	2940185741177
Publisher:	Interpreter Foundation
Publication date:	12/08/2022
Series:	Interpreter: A Journal of Latter-day Saint Faith and Scholarship , #54
Sold by:	Barnes & Noble
Format:	eBook
Sales rank:	960,263
File size:	369 KB

About the Author

Jeffrey Dean Lindsay recently returned to the United States after almost 9 years in Shanghai, China. Jeff has been providing online materials defending the Latter-day Saint faith for over twenty years, primarily at JeffLindsay.com. His blog, originally Mormnity but now Arise From the Dust (arisefromthedust.com), has been in operation since 2004. He is currently Vice President for The Interpreter Foundation and co-editor of Interpreter: A Journal of Latter-day Saint Faith and Scholarship. Jeff has a PhD in chemical engineering from BYU and is a US patent agent. Through his Planet Lindsay, LLC, he helps clients in the US and Asia in creating intellectual property and innovation. From 2011 to 2019 he was the Head of Intellectual Property for Asia Pulp and Paper in Shanghai, China, one of the world’s largest forest product companies. Formerly, he was associate professor at the Institute of Paper Science and Technology (now the Renewable Bioproducts Institute) at Georgia Tech, and Corporate Patent Strategist and Senior Research Fellow at Kimberly-Clark Corporation. Jeff served a mission in the German speaking Switzerland Zurich Mission. He and his wife Kendra are the parents of four boys and have fourteen grandchildren.