Judas Iscariot -- and (2) Judas the brother of the Lord (Mt 13:55;Mk 6:3). The latter is more likely. For example, the author does not claim to be an apostle and even seems to separate himself from the apostles (v. 17). Furthermore, he describes himself as a "brother of ...
giving that fate only to John. He says that Matthew was “slain with a halberd” in Ethiopia, Matthias was stoned in Jerusalem and beheaded, Simon the Zealot was crucified in Britain, and Judas the son of James was crucified in what is now eastern...
Jones has lived in the same small town southeast of Baton Rouge, Louisiana all her life. She is a librarian at the middle school she attended as a child. She has been the president of the Louisiana Association of School Libraries as well as theSchool Library JournalLibrarian of the Year, ...
Sarai and the other women of the household would likely have been responsible for assembling many of the provisions, especially clothing and foodstuffs. There would be containers of salted meat with a “shelf life” of about a month. No doubt grain for grinding, dried fruit, wine or beer, ...
Although it might the worst idea for a children’s book in world history,A Children’s Book of Demonsexists. It is published, widely distributed and it is sold onAmazon, at Walmart and some of thelargest book storesin the country. Here’s the summary of the book by author Aaron Leigh...
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Nebuchadnezzar made Judas Mattaniah, Jehoiachin’s uncle, king in his place; he changed his name to Zedekiah. Amazingly, he followed the same policy as his nephew despite all Jeremiah’s efforts to bring him to his senses. After attempting to form a coalition in 593 (51:59-64), Zedekiah ...
This letter is traditionally referred to as “Jude,” to avoid the negative connotation of its author’s real name, Judah, or Judas. This Judah identifies himself as “brother of James,” which tradition says makes him another brother of Jesus, but this is uncertain. Like many epistles ...
There’s a part of Judas Priest’s cover of Better by You that apparently sounds like an order to, “Do it!” when played backwards. This message apparently caused a couple of teenagers to make a suicide pact in 1985. One of Ozzy’s songs apparently tells the listener to get their ...
Let us interpret the meaning of the Irish working first. From the Christian standpoint the twelve F.C's represent the twelve apostles, Mathias replacing the traitor Judas. But in the non-Christian, and possibly earlier interpretation, these twelve would of course be the twelve signs of the Zod...