THE IPG
COMPENDIUM
HISTORY • ANTIQUITY
A growing reference work devoted to the languages, texts, history, traditions, symbols, and intellectual worlds surrounding Scripture.
EXPLORE THE
ANCIENT WORLD
The IPG Compendium brings together accessible reference material on Hebrew language, Scripture, ancient literature, numerical traditions, manuscripts, Jewish history, and the development of interpretive traditions.
Articles distinguish historical evidence, textual observation, traditional interpretation, and later mystical readings wherever those distinctions matter.
HEBREW
LANGUAGE
Explore the history and structure of Hebrew—from its ancient Northwest Semitic setting through Biblical Hebrew, scribal transmission, the Masoretic tradition, and later stages of the language.
BIBLICAL HEBREW
ROOTS & WORD FORMATION
VOWELS & POINTING
THE MASORETIC TRADITION
HEBREW PRONUNCIATION
THE HEBREW
ALPHABET
מ נ ס ע פ צ ק ר ש ת
Twenty-two letters form the foundation of the Hebrew writing system. Each article examines a letter’s name, form, sound, numerical value, historical development, textual use, and traditional interpretations.
NAME & PRONUNCIATION
NUMERICAL VALUE
BIBLICAL USAGE
TRADITIONAL SYMBOLISM
MYSTICAL INTERPRETATION
GEMATRIA
A systematic introduction to Hebrew numerical traditions: how letter values operate, how different systems are calculated, where gematria appears historically, and how numerical correspondences should—and should not—be interpreted.
ORDINAL GEMATRIA
FINAL-LETTER SYSTEMS
REDUCED VALUES
WORKED EXAMPLES
HISTORY & SOURCES
INTERPRETIVE LIMITS
BIBLICAL TEXT &
MANUSCRIPTS
Study how the biblical text was written, copied, transmitted, preserved, compared, and read across centuries of manuscript history.
DEAD SEA SCROLLS
ANCIENT MANUSCRIPTS
SCRIBAL TRADITIONS
VOWEL POINTS
CANTILLATION
TEXTUAL VARIANTS
THE SECOND
TEMPLE WORLD
Explore the historical and literary world between the rebuilding of the Jerusalem Temple and its destruction under Rome—a period of extraordinary religious, textual, and intellectual development.
THE DEAD SEA SCROLLS
QUMRAN
THE ESSENES
APOCALYPTIC LITERATURE
SECTS & COMMUNITIES
HISTORICAL CONTEXT
JEWISH MYSTICAL
TRADITIONS
An introduction to major texts, concepts, symbols, and historical developments within Jewish mystical and esoteric traditions.
SEFER HABAHIR
THE ZOHAR
THE SEFIROT
TREE OF LIFE
MERKAVAH TRADITIONS
KABBALISTIC TERMINOLOGY
RESEARCH
METHODS
Practical guides for readers who want to move beyond summaries and examine texts, words, numerical claims, sources, and historical arguments for themselves.
CONCORDANCES
INTERLINEAR TEXTS
MANUSCRIPT RESOURCES
SOURCE VERIFICATION
NUMERICAL METHODOLOGY
TEXTUAL ANALYSIS
KNOW WHAT
YOU ARE READING
History, textual evidence, traditional interpretation, and theological or mystical interpretation are related— but they are not identical.
The IPG Compendium seeks to identify those distinctions rather than erase them, allowing readers to see both the evidence and the traditions that developed around it.
TRADITION • INTERPRETATION
A GROWING
COMPENDIUM
The Compendium is not intended to be static. New articles, references, definitions, source studies, and research guides will be added as the IPG library grows.
Each entry becomes another doorway into a larger interconnected body of knowledge.
PUBLISHING GROUP
Research. Reference. Preservation. Knowledge built to endure.