How long after Jesus died was the Bible written? Written over the course of almost a century after Jesus' death, the four gospels of the New Testament, though they tell the same story, reflect very different ideas and concerns. A period of forty years separates the death of Jesus from the...
Today we take it for granted that the Bible is in our language. We forget that the Bible used to not be available to the common man. It’s no wonder thatTIMEmagazine recorded the number one event of the last 1,000 years was the Gutenberg printing of the Bible which made this...
“the reputation of having been a valiant ‘cheer-leader’ is one of the most valuable things a boy can take away from college,” the nation wrote in 1911. though male cheerleaders endured at some upper-crust schools (think george w. bush at yale), there was a rosie-the-riveter-ing ...
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Riders also discovered that they could ride the device with their feet off the ground without losing their balance. And so, in 1840, a Scottish black-smith named Kirkpatrick Macmillan made a two-wheel device that was operated by a treadle. Two years later he traveled as many as 40 miles ...
Origin of life can be dated back to billions of years ago. In the beginning, Earth was almost completely devoid of a suitable environment for living creatures. Gradually, simple organic compounds assembled into more complex coalitions that could grow and reproduce. They are believed to be the ve...
“‘How your heart was inflamed with lust —the declaration of the Lord GOD—when you did all these things, the acts of a brazen prostitute,Holman Christian Standard BibleHow your heart was inflamed with lust"—the declaration of the Lord GOD—"when you did all these things, the acts of...
1890 Darby Bible 12and thou say, How have I hated instruction, and my heart despised reproof!13and I have not hearkened unto the voice of my teachers, nor inclined mine ear to those that instructed me;14I was well nigh in all evil in the midst of the congregation and assembly. ...
The class sat silent, cowed. None of the children could understand why Pavel Korchagin had been ejected, none but Sergei Bruzzhak, who was Pavel’s closest friend. He had seen him sprinkle a fistful of home-grown tobacco into the Easter cake dough in the priest’s kitchen where six backw...
They do say they are going to the harbours, out away beyond the White Towers.’ Sam waved his arm vaguely: neither he nor any of them knew how far it was to the Sea, past the old towers beyond the western borders of the Shire. But it was an old tradition that away over there ...