the city. In the Assyrian inscriptions Nineveh is also supposed to be called "the city of Bel." Fletcher, rather fancifully, taking Nin as meaning "a floating substance or fish," and neveh "a resting-place," supposes the city to have been built nigh to the spot where the ark of ...
Gesenius derives it from two Hebrew roots (עָכִשׁ , akash, "to turn backward," and עָקִב, "to lie in wait"), the combined meaning of which is "rolled in a spire and lying in ambush;" a description which would apply to almost any kind of serpent. ...
(Potok 1975, 372-374). Lurie’s examination of what critical biblical scholars have said about theTorah, gives a reflection, in narrative form, of how academic study of theBiblecan be used to find appropriate meaning within it. In Lurie’s case, pursuing the study of biblical criticism was...
Book Reviews : SEKKI, A.E., The Meaning of Ruah at Qumran (Society of Biblical Literature Dissertation Series 110; Atlanta: Scholars Press, 1989), pp. x + 261. Cloth, $32.95 (21.95), paper $21.95 (14.95). ISBN 1-55540-351-4 (cloth), 1-55540-352-2 ...
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But whoever lives by the truth comes into the light, so that it may be seen plainly that what they have done has been done in the sight of God.” If everyone is doing what they should, no worry right? In 1Thessalonians 5:21 we are told, “ Examine all things and keep that which...
— We need not wonder, accordingly, to find that this is the predominant meaning of the word as it appears in the N.T. The noun, and the verb derived from it (μαγεία and μαγεύω), are used by Luke in describing the impostor, who is therefore known distinctively as...
Indeed, if anything is to be inferred from the meaning of the name Adam, it would go to make him the parent, not of the Caucasian, but of the copper-colored or Tartar tribes. — ED. To those who think the language of the Bible contemplates Adam as "the first being who could be ...
A great step towards the definite restriction of the meaning of philosophy was made by the Platonic writings, though the name continued, and has always continued, to be employed with great latitude. Aristotle, who gave a sharp, scientific character to nearly everything which he touched, first ...
Five sessions were held; the writings of the prominent Monothelites were examined and condemned; pope Martin explained the proper meaning of Dionysius's term "theandric operation," stating that it was designed to signify two operations of one person; the ...