Abigail is a name that is similarly of Hebrew origin much like Mary is, but it’s one with a wholly different meaning to it. Your husbands might like this one because the meaning of the name Abigail is a father’s joy – you may just end up with a daughter who prefers her dad more...
This biblical girl’s name appears in the New Testament, and it is the Greek form of an old Hebrew moniker with a similar sound. The meaning is “fruitful, increasing,” giving it a name that holds a lot of potentials. Aphi and Fia are both charming nicknames for little girls. 5. Ab...
Fourth, the meaning of the title “prophetic” changes, Schniedewind argues, to more of a government institution that Israelite refugees bring to Judah during the 8th century BCE, such that we now have comments like those in 1 Sam 9:9. In Chapter 7, Schniedewind considers how the nebulous...
The Book of Kings, which was completed during the Babylonian exile (see its final verses), never uses the term “Torah” in reference to our Five Books of Moses, though it does in reference to Deuteronomy (see 2 Kings 14:6 and Deuteronomy 24:16), implying that some form of Deuteronomy...
The residence of the popes at Avignon, or, as it was called even before the times of Luther; the Babylonian exile of the popes, was followed by the great Schism (1378-1409), when Christendom was scandalized by the rival claims of two or, at times, of three vicars of God, who hurled...
In the books of the Apocrypha, the word, as in those of the Old Test., retains its general meaning, and is not used specifically for any recognized place of worship. For this the received phrase seems to be τόπος προσευχῆς (1 Macc. 3, 46; 3 Macc. 7:20)....
attacks by the Babylonian empire in the late sixth century, which killed many Jews and destroyed the city of Jerusalem—along with the temple, the center of Jewish religious life—the Babylonians took a portion of the remaining population into exile, relocating them in the center of the empire...
II. BABYLONIAN CAPTIVITY OF "JUDAH." — 1. Its Date. — Sennacherib, B.C. 713, is stated (Rawlinson, Outline, p. 24; but comp. Demetrius ap. Clem. Alexand. Stromata, 1:21, incorrectly quoted as confirming the statement) to have carried into Assyria 200,000 captives from the Jewish...
Archaeological evidence for the Babylonian Exile In our previousblog, we looked at the Middle Gate as an example of the description inLamentations 2:9that Jerusalem’s “gates were sunk into the ground.” We published it on the 1stof September, as that was one of the readings for the day...
The tower of Babel in Genesis, was likely based on the Ziggurat, ancient Babylonian temples made of clay, with steps rising to heaven. Today, Northern Iraq is controlled by the Kurds. In ancient times, this area was called Assyria; its capital, across the river from modern Mosul, was call...