The tablets are ranged in chronological order, those of the same generation being placed in a line. When the hall is large and the family rich, no pains are spared to adorn it with banners and insignia of wealth and rank; and on festival days it serves as a convenient place for friends...
If they do not greatly affect the ideal, and do not, in this branch, attain to any very exalted rank, yet even here their emblematic figures of the gods have a dignity and grandeur which is worthy of remark, and which implies the possession of some elevated feelings. But their chief ...
The original Horites were replaced by the Edomites and Seir’s offspring were figures in this transition within the narrative. The second most influential node on Gc was that of Yahweh, followed by Lot, and then Moses, indicating that simple node degree is not a predictor of impact on Gc....
In II Samuel 9:7, either "father" and "grandfather" could be used because Hebrew does not have the word "grandfather" but uses "father" in many instances. In many cases, the NIV has removed the figure of speech so that the better meaning for today is used. However, removing figures ...
[Y developments in Christian thought] may have obscured this reading/understanding in some quarters, [Z figures throughout church history] evidenced a similar understanding of what I am arguing here.” That’s a more historically and theologically humble way to put it, at least from my point ...
The four rivers of Eden are figures of the wide streams of Wisdom, and she is as the brook which becomes a river and waters the paradise of God (Ecclesiasticus 24:25-30). This, however, was compatible with the recognition of Genesis 2, as speaking of a fact. But in later times ...
In the world of the Zohar, the two sefirot Bina and Shechina (namely, attributes or qualities of divinity that symbolize the Mother and the Bride, her daughter) represent not only the fertility of feminine figures on Earth, but the divine powers that construct the sacred marriages in Heaven....