According to the definition of a cult, there is a (or multiple) authoritarian leadership (gurus). Prior to John Walton and Michael Heiser circa 1990, this idea that the Bible must confirm to pagan writings was unheard of within Christianity. For nearly 2000 years no Christian scholar accepted ...
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The next year, in 168 BCE, a strong fortress, the Seleucid Akra, was built to the south of the Temple Mount and east of the Huldah Gates. These were the main gates that were used by people that went up from the Lower City to the Temple. The garrison that was stationed inside the f...
There is also in the Bible eschatological wrath, that is the unfolding of divine wrath at the end of the age described in detail, for example, in Revelation 6 through 19, the pouring out of God's wrath in the breaking of seven seals, the blowing of seven trumpets, and the dumping of ...
(normal unemployment) set before the recession / depression was triggered. If you are a global banker today, however, this will not due. Instead, you simply change the definition of “normal unemployment”. Thus, the debilitating jobless rate which was originally thought of as “bad”, is ...
5.פּנָּה, usually "corner," twice only "tower" (Zephaniah 1:16; 3, 6; γωνία;angulus). 6.מַצפֶּה (σκοπιά:specula),"watch-tower."SEEMIZPAH. ⇒Definition oftower 7.מַשׂגָּב (ὀχύρωμα;robur),"a re...
⇒Definition of serpentIt is not possible to say with any degree of certainty what particular species of serpent is intended by the Hebrew word; the ancient versions do not help us at all, although nearly all agree in some kind of serpent, with the exception of the Chaldee paraphrase, ...
The TOWER OF THE FURNACES (מַגּדִּל הִתִּנִּוּרַים, Migdal' hat- Tannurim; Sept. πύργος τῶν θαννουρείμ v.r. θανουρίμ, Vulg. turrisfurnorumn), i.e., of the Ovens (Neb. 3:11; ...
So, too, the definition of the otherwise unknown Resen, as "the great city" (Ge 10:12), indicates a period anterior to that of the kings who ruled at Asshur (Kal'ah Sherghat) and Calah (Nimrud), the earliest of whom is placed about B.C. 1270. At the time of the Egyptian ...
⇒Definition of babylonicsAccording to the account of Herodotus (1, 178-186) the walls of Babylon were double, the outer line being 56 miles in circumference, built of large bricks cemented together with bitumen, and raised round the city in the form of an exact square; hence they ...