iii. “The badgers’ skin (AV) is the same as the material used in the covering of the tabernacle (Numbers 4:6ff.). The various translations give sealskin (RV), porpoise skin (RV mg.), leather (RSV). ‘Badger’ is certainly not right, because the skin had to be both suitable for...
i. The New Moon, and I should not fail to sit with the king to eat: Special sacrifices were commanded for the new moon (Numbers 28:11-15), at the beginning of each month on the Jewish calendar. b. If there is iniquity in me: Again, David seems somewhat shaken by the fact that ...
We do not mention the word ‘valuable’ here, since this condition can be considered somewhat tautological: ‘valuable’ is defined ex post (Priem & Butler,2001). Some of the bustling airports served today by the airline Ryanair were forlorn and decrepit out-of-the-way landing fields before ...
See passages such as Numbers 16:3, Numbers 20:4, Deuteronomy 23:1, and 1 Chronicles 28:8. iii. Because church was a secular term (referring to “the gatherings of the citizenry in a city-state to discuss and decide on matters of public interest” [Mare]), Paul calls the gathering ...
Small numbers of Philistines were in the land at the time of Abraham, but they came in larger numbers soon after Israel came to Canaan from Egypt. They were organized into five city-states. iii. This was a difficult period for Israel. “Never did time seem more hopeless than when Samuel...
i. You devour men: The figure of speech uses the words spoken by the unfaithful spies in Numbers – that it was a land that devours its inhabitants (Numbers 13:32). ii. “In a sense the land of promise was a bereaver of the nation, for it was subject, through the chastisements of...
In Jewish law, it was the mark of adultery (Numbers 5:11-31). In the Greek world, it could be the mark of a prostitute or lesbian. f. If it is shameful for a woman to be shorn or shaved, let her be covered: Among the Corinthian Christians, there were probably certain “spiritual...
(1.1)). Tasks include assessments of Immediate Word Recall, Pattern Separation (part 1 and 2), Simple Reaction Time, Digit Vigilance, Choice Reaction Time, Spatial Working Memory, Numeric Working Memory, Delayed Word Recall, Word Recognition, and Grammatical Reasoning. Tasks were shown in a ...
Although Japanese travelers’ love for Hawaii goes back decades, it will take a while for travel numbers to go back to their pre-Covid-19 heights. Before the pandemic, Japanese travelers made up the largest number of overseas tourists in Hawaii. Based on data from the Hawa...