Speaking of people who never died, there is one more special case recorded in the Bible. The prophet Elijah was taken to heaven in a whirlwind by chariots of horses and fire. (2 Kings 2:11) When Jonah goes to Nineveh and tells the people there to repent and follow God, the king of...
The 17 Prophetic Books are: Isaiah, Jeremiah, Lamentations, Ezekiel, Daniel, Hosea, Joel, Amos, Obadiah, Jonah, Micah, Nahum, Habakkuk, Zephaniah, Haggai, Zechariah, and Malachi. The New Testament has 4 Gospels, Acts, 21 Epistles, and Revelation in it. The 4 Gospels are: Matthew, Mark,...
The 17 Prophetic Books are:Isaiah, Jeremiah, Lamentations, Ezekiel, Daniel, Hosea, Joel, Amos, Obadiah, Jonah, Micah, Nahum, Habakkuk, Zephaniah, Haggai, Zechariah, and Malachi. The New Testament has 4 Gospels, Acts, 21 Epistles, and Revelation in it. ...
we don’t have any evidence that he existed outside the Bible itself—so it’s more likely that the books attributed to Moses were written by various religious leaders over the centuries. Similarly, it’s unlikely that Jonah wrotethe book of Jonah,Isaiahmay have had...
Exodus contains most of Moses' early story, including his childhood and leading the Israelites out of slavery, while Deuteronomy functions as his farewell address to the Israelites. What does the Bible say about Moses? In the Hebrew Bible/Christian Old Testament, Moses is portrayed as a prophet...
The Prophets of the Old Testament such as Abraham, Noah and Jonah never preached that God is part of a Trinity, and did not believe in Jesus as their saviour. Their message was simple: there is one God and He alone deserves your worship. It doesn’t make sense that God sent Prophets ...
Jonah was one of the 12 Minor Prophets in the Hebrew Bible and Christian Old Testament. His narrative is part of a larger book, The Twelve, in the Jewish canon, and stands alone as the Book of Jonah in Christian scripture. The account, which opposes the
Book of Jonah, the fifth of 12 Old Testament books that bear the names of the Minor Prophets, embraced in a single book, The Twelve, in the Hebrew Bible. Unlike other Old Testament prophetic books, Jonah is not a collection of the prophet’s oracles but
develops a three-sided conflict involving the innocent beauty of Susanna, the lechery of the elders, and the triumphant wisdom of Daniel. The books ofRuth,Esther, andJonahhardly need mentioning to those familiar withbiblical literature: they may well be among the most-famous stories in the Judeo...
Mesopotamia, south ofAl-Ramādī(about 70 miles, or 110 kilometres, west of Baghdad) on the Euphrates and the bend of the Tigris below Sāmarrāʾ (about 70 miles north-northwest of Baghdad), is flat alluvial land. Between Baghdad and the mouth of theShaṭṭ al-ʿArab(theconfluence...