Archaic lexemes and derivational models in the Church Slavonic translation of the biblical Book of KingsRichness of the Bulgarian VocabularyTatyana Slavova
Jonah was a Jewish prophet and is identified as the son of Amittai. Given the historical information conveyed in the 2 Kings passage, he may have lived about 785 bce. At that time the Assyrian empire was one of the cruelest and most aggressive in Mesopotamia. The Assyrians had destroyed sc...
*Note: Some websites and religiouspublishers use very short abbreviations, consisting of only 1 or 2 letters,which sometimes causes confusion. For example: Does "Jo"refer to the book of Joshua, or Job, or Jonah, or Joel, or John? Does "Ju"refer to Judges or to Jude? Does "Ez"refer...
The book of Hosea, a minor prophet, is part of the Book of the Twelve. A highly complex and rhetorically rich text, the book’s backdrop is the rise of the Assyrian Empire in the mid-8th century BCE. Assyria became Israel’s greatest threat. The five kings mentioned in the book’s ...
Twitter Google Share on Facebook Chemosh (redirected fromChemosh (biblical)) Chemosh(kēˈmŏsh), identified, probably mistakenly, as the god of the Ammonites in the Bible (seeMilcom). In First and Second Kings, Solomon erected an altar to him at Jerusalem, and Josiah destroyed it. ...
The article also suggests that widows foreshadow miracles in the Bible, such as in the book of 1 Kings and the book of Luke.EBSCO_AspBiblical Archaeology Review
When we turn to the Apocrypha (see In the apocryphal book of 1 Maccabees, Eliezer runs beneath the elephant of an enemy general and thrusts his sword into it (1 Macc. 6:46). In 2 Maccabees, two acts of suicide are recorded: that of Ptolemy, and that of Ragesh (Razis). Ptolemy, a...
Biblical literature - Samuel, Israel, Saul: The book of Samuel covers the period from Samuel, the last of the judges, through the reigns of the first two kings of Israel, Saul and David (except for David’s death). The division of Samuel and its succeedi
Calendars are powerful political, religious and social tools. Their symbolism incorporates spiritual, temporal, cosmological, celestial, numerical and agricultural truths, often in the guise of cultural myth. The authority ancient kings, carried througho
Share on Facebook (redirected fromBiblical Literature) Thesaurus Encyclopedia Related to Biblical Literature:SBL Bi·ble (bī′bəl) n. 1. a.The sacred book of Christianity, a collection of ancient writings including the books of both the Old Testament and the New Testament. ...