Chapter SummaryGenesis 1 is nothing less than a bare-bones claim that God created the universe. Setting all of the debates on models and interpretations aside, the chapter undeniably insists on one thing: God means to be known as the Creator of all things. Written in the original Hebrew lang...
Read full chapter Footnotes Genesis 26:18 tn Heb“he returned and dug,” meaning “he dug again” or “he reopened.” Genesis 26:18 tn Heb“that they dug.” Since the subject is indefinite, the verb is translated as passive. Genesis 26:18 tn Heb“and the Philistines had stopped them...
Verse (Click for Chapter) New International VersionThen they dug another well, but they quarreled over that one also; so he named it Sitnah.New Living TranslationIsaac’s men then dug another well, but again there was a dispute over it. So Isaac named it Sitnah (which means “hostility”...
Genesis 1:27 Meaning and Commentary Genesis 1:27 So God created man in his own image Which consisted both in the form of his body, and the erect stature of it, different from all other creatures; in agreement with the idea of that body, prepared in covenant for the Son of God, and ...
◄Genesis 26:18► Verse(Click for Chapter) New International Version Isaac reopened the wells that had been dug in the time of his father Abraham, which the Philistines had stopped up after Abraham died, and he gave them the same names his father had given them. ...
C. S. Lewis thought often about the meaning of humanity's "dominion" over the earth and its animals (Genesis 1:26), and he insists it does not indicate a dispassionate, heavy-handed conquest of other creatures. Instead, he articulates a gentler vision of humanity's role in Creation. ...
This work uses anthropological theory and field studies to investigate the social function and meaning of sacrifice. All rituals, including sacrifice, communicate social beliefs and morality, but these cannot be determined outside of a s... D Janzen 被引量: 13发表: 2004年 The Monotheism of the...
亚伯拉罕又娶了一妻,名叫基土拉。基土拉给他生了心兰、约珊、米但、米甸、伊施巴,和书亚。约珊生了示巴和底但。底但的子孙是亚书利族、利都是族,和利乌米族。
The Hebrew word for God is plural, and the creation of man was by a plural form of God (Genesis 1:26 : "And God said, 'Let us make man in our image, after our likeness'"). The meaning of the plural form was not fully understood until the emergence of Christianity and the accepta...
One impressive example is his discussion of the meaning of the Tower of Babel story. Hendel notes that a popular interpretation of this story regards it as a moral tale about the dangers of human hubris (Hendel 223). However, this in...