This index presents a list of author names of the book titled From Two Kingdoms to One Nation - Israel and Judah. The entries are arranged in alphabetical order. The book sets out to highlight these essential differences between Judah and Israel as they appear in various parts of biblical ...
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 substituted the more familiar names of local Greek deities in place of the long-forgotten...
It was soon after this, as it would seem, that Augustus's decree was promulgated, and Joseph and Mary traveled to Bethlehem to have their names enrolled in the registers (B.C. 6) by way of preparation for the taxing, which, however, was not completed till several years afterwards (A....
Those who maintain, therefore, that the psalms were all collected and arranged at once, contend that the collector distributed the Psalms according to the divine names which they severally exhibited. But to this theory the existence of book 3, in which the preferential use of the Elohim ...
Entries organized alphabetically by the English names of plants discuss the ecological and cultural factors that led to the inclusion of various plants in the Bible and the Qurʾan, and include descriptions of the plants themselves, including their form, smell, and use. Photographs accompany each...
I. Names and Orders of Men in the Early Church; II. Superior Orders of Clergy; III. Inferior Orders of Clergy; IV. Elections and Ordinations of Clergy; V. Privileges, Immunities, and Revenues of Clergy; VI. Rules of Life for Clergy; VII. Ascetics; VIII. Church Edifices, etc.; IX....
. It also occurs very frequently as the first part of the names of towns and men, e.g. BAAL-GAD, BAAL-HAMON, BAAL-HANAN, etc., all which see in their alphabetical order, and compare SEE BAAL. As a strictly proper name, and in its simple form, Baal stands in the Bible for a ...
House (בִּיַת, ba'yith, which is used with much latitude, and in the "construct" form בֵּית, beyth, Anglicized "Beth," [q.v.] enters into the composition of many proper names; Gr. οικος, or some derivative of it), a dwelling in general, ...
, although written in prose and not verse, we have, for the convenience of the reader, also distinguished our new version by a new species of writing." The Chronicles, he says, he divided into members of verses (per versuum colk), in order to avoid an "inextricable forest of names."...
2. "The names of the prophets and the holy writers, with the other names in the text, to be retained as near as may be, according as they are vulgarly used." 3. "The old ecclesiastical words to be kept, as the word church not to be translated congregation." 4. "When any wor...