LESSON I. The pre-existence ofChrist:In the beginning was theWord,and theWordwas withGod,and theWordwasGod... All things were made by him; and without him was not anything made that was made ... And theWord...
Early Christian thought, based in Hebrew religion yet influenced by the ambient Platonism of the time, found itself affirming the resurrection of the body yet also allowing for some sort of immortal "soul." For Christian theology from Paul onward, however, "soul" did not mean pure spirit but...
The Gilgamesh stories were written down by the Akkadians, a people who spoke a language related to both Hebrew and Arabic. The earliest version of the epic was not discovered until the seventh century b.c.e., when it was found in the library of the Assyrian king Ashurbanipal (669–627 ...
In the last few centuries, scholars proclaimed there was no evidence for most events in the Biblical account, and it was nothing but a collection of Hebrew legends. Then, a massive amount of evidence emerged through the findings of archaeologists, such as the discovery of the Hittite civilizatio...
the Chosen One, another Jedi knight says, “You refer to the prophecy of the One who will bring balance to the Force,” but we never learn who prophesied and when. The prophecy echoes the Gospels’ repeatedly stated thesis that certain passages in the Hebrew Bible foretell Jesus’s coming....
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"I think," says Clement of Alexandria, commenting on this passage, "that it was necessary for the best of the Apostles to be imitators of their Master on the other side as well as here, that they might convert the gentile dead as he did the Hebrew."117 Elsewhere he says: "Christ vi...
Fr. Stephen:And there are still, I guess, some related words in Arabic that are used for “husband” kind of thing. But I’m not qualified to give you the details of that, but I’ve had some conversations recently. It also came to be used in various forms of late Hebrew and Aramai...
For there is no other God but me, a righteous God and Savior. There is none but me.English Standard VersionDeclare and present your case; let them take counsel together! Who told this long ago? Who declared it of old? Was it not I, the LORD? And there is no other god besides me...
Civilizations as theMesopotamian,Egyptian,Phoenician, andHebrew,inhabited the furthest corners of the East, developing activities such as trading, in which the Phoenicians particularly stood out, while on a spiritual level the Hebrews provided the basis of the majority of future religions. ...