Bible translators stand at the intersection of the biblical world and their own, with the task of communicating an ancient text in a contemporary language. The Greek translator of Isaiah provides interesting examples of the issues and problems this task presents. For instance, he sometimes substitute...
— The time fixed for the celebration of Pentecost is the fiftieth day reckoning from "the morrow after the Sabbath" (מַמָּחַרִת הִשִּׁבָּת) of the Passover (Le 23:11,15-16.) The precise meaning, however, of the word שׁב...
The Symbolic Meaning of Biblical Names as a Narrative Tool: Moses, Abraham, and DavidThe importance of names in the Jewish tradition is emphasized by the use of the word HaShem,...Sasson, Gahl E.Wayne State University PressStorytelling, Self, Society...
What the precise meaning of this ambiguous phrase is, and what, according to the Mosaic gamology, gives a husband the right to divorce his wife, has been greatly disputed in the schools of Shammai and Hillel, which were founded before the advent of Christ, and these discussions are given ...
This explains everything and gives meaning to life. - Albert Einstein Education without values, as useful as it is, seems rather to just make man a more clever devil. -CS Lewis I believe in Christianity, as I believe that the sun has risen: not only because I see it, but because ...
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The principal scriptural authority for the papacy relied upon by the Roman Catholic Church isMt 16:18-19. Without entering into a discussion of the meaning of this famous passage, we may here quote from Abbott'sCommentaryon the New Testament a statement of the Roman Catholic interpretation, and...
3. Στρωματεῖς or Στρώματα, in eight books, of which the eighth is lost (the imperfect treatise on logic, standing at present as such, belonging to some other work). The word stronmateis, meaning patch-work (opus varie contextum), is significant of the ...
The hill Bezetha, interpreted by Josephus as meaning "New City," placed by him opposite Acra, and stated to be originally lower than it, is said by him also to lie over against the tower Antonia, from which it was separated by a deep fosse (War, 5, 4, 1 and 2). SEE BEZETHA. ...
5. In the Church of England, the term homily has acquired a special meaning from the fact that in the time of the Reformation, a number of easy and simple discourses were composed to be read in the churches. "The Thirty-fifth Article of religion says, The second Book of Homilies, the...