It is a difficult task and he has compressed a vast amount of information into a short compass and has put much of it in story form with a very free imagination and has lighted up the whole with handsome pictures. The light of modern research is turned on in many ways. Many of his ...
...thebiblicalstory of Noah. 《圣经》中挪亚的故事 柯林斯高阶英语词典 Prophet of ancient Israel after whom thebiblicalBook of Isaiah is named. 古代以色列先知,《旧约》中的〈以赛亚书〉即以其名命名. 期刊摘选 When you gain truebiblicalwisdom, you will be to handle life as it comes. ...
‘How beautiful are the feet of those who preach the gospel of peace, who bring glad tidings of good things!’ But they have not all obeyed the gospel. For Isaiah says, ‘LORD, who has believed our report?’ So then faith comes by hearing, and hearing by the word of God” (Rom 10...
A few days ago, I read thestoryof a young Christian rocker named Trey Pearson. He has joined a chorus of other Christians in embracing his “true self,” by “coming out” as gay—leaving a devastated wife and broken family in his wake. In the name of being his “authentic” self, ...
There is an odd story told by St. Jerome, in his commentary on the biblical book of Isaiah, the Amel-Marduk was in fact imprisoned by his father Nebuchadnezzar, together with Jehoiachin, and they became friends. Perhaps explaining the annuity grant upon Nebuchadnezzar’s death and Amel-Marduk...
The Hebrews, as well as the Greeks and Romans, appear to have spoken of them in a loose sense as being in Assyria, because in the Assyrian empire. Thus Isaiah (Isa 8:20) describes the Assyrians as those " beyond the river," i.e. east of the Euphrates, which river, and not the ...
Review: “Who Really Wrote the Bible: The Story of the Scribes” by William SchniedewindWilliam Schniedewind. Who Really Wrote the Bible: The Story of the Scribes. Princeton: Princeston University Press, 2024. Summary In the introduction, Schniedewind identifies the book’s goal: to use s...
The annual-cycle Torah reading week, parsha Vayechi (Genesis/Bereshiet chapter 47:28-End) not only concludes the story of the life and times of Yakov or Jacob, but of Yosef (Joseph) as well, and the Book of Genesis. The Erev Shabbat reading: Among other things,... ...
Thus, it is the story of the promised seed of Israel, foretold in the celestial showcase of the ages, that provides the basis of many world myths. The cult of Osiris had a powerful influence on the social order of Egypt, since Osiris was associated with Pharaoh, along with the cycles ...
A Hebrew given name that denotes someone who is married. When it appears in the book of Isaiah, it is a designation for the land of Judah that depicts it as a land chosen by God. 18. Bethel The dwelling place of God. Middle-sized city in the Judean south between Benjaminian and Ephr...