Archaeologists with Azusa Pacific University in California have announced the discovery of a nearly 3,000-year-old broken jar bearing the inscription “lbnayo,” meaning “belonging to Benaiyo.” The name is the equivalent of the biblical Beniah, meaning “Yahweh has... ...
This, which is the most obvious, may have the same meaning as the previous derivation, which is supported by the sacred text (1Sa 1:20). II. History.— 1. Private Life.— The circumstances of his birth were ominous of his future career. He was the son of Elkanah, an Ephrathite or...
as they made their rounds in the city.They beat me, they bruised me; they took away my cloak, those watchmen of the walls!8 Daughters of Jerusalem, I charge you— if you find my beloved,what will you tell him? Tell him I am faint with love. Friends 9 How is your...
One was brought up to believer that the real meaning of Plato had been misunderstood by Aristotle and wildly travestied by the neo-Platonists, only to be recovered by the moderns. When recovered, it turned out (most fortunately) that Plato had really all along been an English Hegelian, ...
We ask at this stage of the subject, what was the meaning of pagan offerings? As they understood their religious rites, the unbloody were expressions of gratitude and acknowledgment for protection. Whatever the form of offering was, the god was conceived of as being pleased with them. How ...
THE END OF THE WORLD …and meaning less than nothing. That’s the real loss, here. Not only are fundamental pieces of people’s lives being bastardized, butnothing is being said in the process. Concepts that havechanged the face of the worldare reduced to a tired jumpscare, or a simpl...
They lived in “black houses,” called that because the poorest people couldn’t afford to have a chimney built. The smoke from the cooking and heating fires stayed inside the house and covered the walls with black tar. If you look at the cemetery records from Dubne, you would be old ...
D. What approach will be used in this course for studying the Old Testament? The Old Testament will be examined for: 1. Meaning (the author's intentions). 2. Exegesis (the process of drawing out the meaning from the text - we subordinate ourselves to the text (isogesis means putting ...
he reveals the meaning of their dreams. No doubt he saw that God had sent them those dreams for him to interpret; and that his connection with these men would work out the fulfilment of his own dreams. It is certain that what was foretold by their dreams would have occurred even if the...
Old World had walls; they had gates and bars, and they certainly did not dwell alone. The prophecy no doubt refers to the New World, specifically the Americas. The Americas were wealthy and they dwelt alone. === not in Thompson'sEvidences=== Another prophet, Zephaniah...