these two works (Septuagint: First, Second, Third and Fourth Book of Kingdoms; Latin Vulgate: First, Second, Third and Fourth Kings). Together Samuel and Kings relate the whole history of the monarchy, from its rise under the ministry of Samuel to its fall at the hands of the Babylonians...
The book of Hosea, a minor prophet, is part of the Book of the Twelve. A highly complex and rhetorically rich text, the book’s backdrop is the rise of the Assyrian Empire in the mid-8th century BCE. Assyria became Israel’s greatest threat. The five kings mentioned in the book’s ...
-- The first multi-disciplinary study of one of the most important surviving illuminated manuscriptsThe Morgan Picture Bible was designed to bring selected Old Testament stories into the 13th-century, the time of its original audience. The creators' original intention was to make these stories not...
Book of Judges- a book of the Old Testament that tells the history of Israel under the leaders known as judges Judges Old Testament- the collection of books comprising the sacred scripture of the Hebrews and recording their history as the chosen people; the first half of the Christian Bible ...
Isaiah wrote during the stormy period marking the expansion of the Assyrian empire and the decline of Israel. Under King Tiglath-Pileser III (745-727 b.c.) the Assyrians swept westward into Aram (Syria) and Canaan. About 733 the kings of Aram and Israel tried to pressure Ahaz king of Ju...
This tradition is found in many texts in the Hebrew Bible, including 1 Kings 10; Psalms 68, 72, 76, and 96; and in several places in the book of Isaiah. Chan painstakingly interrogates every one of these texts, as well as related texts from the ancient Near East, and he collates an...
Kings and priests: Scripture's theological account of its readers. The history of modern biblical interpretation is checkered, calling forth a number of recent attempts to rethink and resituate readers theologically and et... U Anizor - Wheaton College. 被引量: 0发表: 2012年 God's Covenant ...
The Book of Daniel andthe Twenty-First-CenturyReligious Bible StudentRivka RavivThe ways of Providence are mysterious, and for this reason I have difficultyexplaining how I first came to study the book of Daniel. Nonetheless, for overa decade I have found myself returning repeatedly to this fas...
The earlier date has been generally favored by conservatives because of several Biblical chronologies, notably 1 Kings 6:1. Archeologists have favored the later date. The Book of Numbers is important in this debate esp. in one particular, that several chs. of the book (20-25; 31) deal with...
Forsakethe foolish, and live; and go in the way of understanding. . Psalms 2 Why do the heathen rage, and the people imagine a vain thing? 2:2 The kings of the earth set themselves, and the rulers take counsel together, against the LORD, and against his anointed, [saying], 2:3 Le...