Beginning Biblical Hebrew.(Book review)Dallaire, Helene
This Hebrew given name translates as “wild mountain goat.” Jael was a badass from the beginning. She assassinated Sisera, the leader of the Canaanite king’s troops, who had a reputation for being a nasty guy. With little more than a tent peg and a hammer, she accomplished her goal....
woman to the master of the household and with the inclusion of concubines and servants in the household. The historical process is viewed as a manifestation of “divine providence,” the earth is viewed as the center of the universe, and the world is viewed as having a beginning and an ...
Hoffman in his riveting little tome on the history of the Hebrew language, In the Beginning, the Name יהוה or YHWH; the name of the Lord, consists of only those ambiguous double-duty symbols and is far beyond any attempt to pronounce it. In fact, the name YHWH may be ...
Mary and Joseph didn’t have a book of baby names from which to chose the name for this remarkable child. His name was chosen for them by a word from the Lord through the angel Gabriel: “You shall call his name Jesus, for he will save his people from their sins” (Matt. 1:21)...
Known for directing such classic films as The Maltese Falcon, The Treasure of the Sierra Madre, and The African Queen, The Bible: In the Beginning was a change of pace for Huston. Starting with the creation of man, the movie also depicts Cain’s murder of Abel, the Tower of Babel, ...
the sentence, usually on a level with the top of the preceding letter, but not always, and a vacant space follows the point at the end of the paragraph, the space being proportioned to the break in the sense. Capital letters of various sizes abound at the beginning of books and sections...
Augustine, and may be found in the appendix to his works; and a sermon, with a similar purport, was ascribed to St. Athanasius. Thus tie names of Eusebius, Jerome, Augustine, Athanasius, and others, came to be quoted as maintaining the truth of the Assumption. The first writers within ...
33° 30', may be traced under the names of Sarazur, Hamrin, and Sinjar, from Iwan in Luristan nearly to Rakkah on the Euphrates. " From all parts of the plain the Sinjar is a beautiful object. Its limestone rooks, wooded here and there with dwarf oak, are of a rich golden color...
The gymnastic exercises were laid down in a well-planned systematic series, beginning with the easier (κὃνφα), and proceeding on to the more difficult (βαπέα). Some of these were specially fitted to give strength, others agility; some educated the hands, others the feet. ...