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Why Did Jesus Write on the Ground?

By Hershel Shanks

We haven’t been able to find out what Jesus wrote on the ground, but we may have discovered why he wrote on the ground in the well-known pericope involving the adulterous woman.

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Endnotes

1.

Avrohom Davis, ed., The Metsudah Chumash/Rashi, vol. 4, BaMidbar (Book of Numbers) (Hoboken, NJ: Ktav, 1996), p. 144.

2.

See Joseph M. Baumgarten et al., Qumran Cave 4, XIII: The Damascus Document (4Q266-273), Discoveries in the Judaean Desert 18 (Oxford: Clarendon Press, 1996), p. 76, pl. 14.