Mount Zion, the city of David and the eternal possession of God Most High, will be the holy city where all will assemble to worship Him. “At that time Jerusalem shall be called The Throne of the Lord, and all the nations shall be gathered to it, to the name of the Lord, to Jerus...
Philo of Alexandria, the first century Jewish sage, philosopher, and exegete, perhaps known most famously in Christian circles as the great allegorizer of Israel’s scripture whose methods were taken up by the Alexandrian fathers of the church, has an important description of the ethics of the...
(Joshua through Ruth) began a long journey leading to great heights of glory under David and Solomon and great depths of despair in captivity in foreign lands (Samuel through Nehemiah; see Babylonian Captivity). Wisdom was acquired at a great price and expressed beautifully by many different ...
The Old Testament's Elijah was aHebrew prophet in the ninth century B.C.who couldperform miracles. When he died, he was taken to heaven in a horse-drawn chariot of fire, as described in theSecond Book of Kings. The name was used in the Middle Ages, died out, and was later brought...
Reflections on David Herman’s “Storytelling and the Sciences of Mind” When I first purchased David Herman’s Storytelling and the Sciences of Mind, I looked forward to an interdisciplinary approach to narrative, leveraging the best ideas in the humanities and sciences. As my recent thought proc...
Heavenly angels carry out the commands of God, while fallen angels carry out acts of deceit and wickedness. The Bible details the job description of God's angels: "Bless the LORD, ye his angels, that excel in strength, that do his commandments, hearkening unto the voice of his word" (...
Thus, Israel starts with a family (Jacob and sons), moves to a clan (children of Israel), to the 12 tribes (13 with Levites), to the chiefdom of Saul, and culminates in the Davidic or Solomonic state.[8] But this model cannot be accepted as history in a simplistic fashion. The...
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Profile: King of Judah (609 B.C. – 598 B.C.) Lineage: House of David. Father: King Josiah. Mother: Zebidah, the daughter of Pedaiah of Rumah. Meaning of Name: “he whom Jehovah has set up” Highlights of his Reign: Several important events in Biblical... ...
Description: Probing the Frontiers of Biblical Studies is a seventeen-chapter anthology on biblical studies. It has been crafted as an extended and respectful thank you note to one of the most insightful scholars of biblical studies, David J. A. Clines of Sheffield University in England. He ...