Influence and significance Historical and cultural importance InJudaism After the kingdoms of Israel and Judah had fallen, in 722bce(before the Common Era, equivalent tobc) and 587/586bce, respectively, the Hebrew people outlived defeat, captivity, and the loss of their national independence, lar...
The second question, which has even deeper meaning and future impact on our nation, is what is the significance of the bullet striking and drawing blood from president Trump’s right ear? For answers to these questions, and many more, we need to turn to God in prayer and turn to His Wo...
the number of knots upon them, and the distance of one from another, all had their significance; but after the invasion of the Spaniards, when the whole Peruvian system of government and civilization underwent dislocation, the art of reading the quipus seems either to have been lost or was ...
Van Leeuwen highlights that most children do not confuse these maps; however, “the second map – the imagined one – also has emotional significance” (6). To this end, we are better off saying that pretenders responding to an aspect of the second map, the imaginary map, implies the “m...
procession. The number 12 has further significance, as it represents authority, appointment and completeness. The number 666 is used to represent the devil and hell, whereas 12, 12, 12 is believed to signify God and heaven. The number 12 is also associated with the government of the cosmos....
The incumbent must have completed a doctorate in theology in the last five years and be able to demonstrate capacity for high level research, as well as possessing organisational skills. She or he will be expected to work towards publication of at least two peer-reviewed articles per year and...
Today is the feast of St Matthias, the man providentially chosen to replace Judas Iscariot as the twelfth apostle (Acts 1:21-26). The early church recognized the symbolic significance of the number twelve. Twelve tribes prefigures twelve apostles. Jesus, as the True Israel, reconstituted the ...
In this essay, I have attempted to answer my research question - what is the significance of the biblical allusions in Gabriel Garcia Marquez's novel One Hundred Years of Solitude? - by first explaining the various biblical references alluded to in the novel in detail, and then attempting to...
Portrait of Isaac Newton, cornerstone of the scientific revolution, based his research on the scientific authority of the Bible. Biblical scientific foreknowledge is the assertion that the Bible possessed scientific knowledge beyond that which is believed to exist at the time the Bible was written. ...
Here Paul is speaking of the human tongue. 10 There are, it may be, so many kinds of voices in the world, and none of them without significance. 11 Therefore, if I do not know the meaning of the voice, I shall be a foreigner to him who speaks, and he who speaks, a foreigner ...