Benjamin first appears in Genesis in the Hebrew Bible as the youngest son of Jacob and Rachel and the youngest of all of Jacob's 12 sons. Jacob, whose name is later changed to Israel, marries two sisters and takes each of their handmaids as concubines. While he was tricked into marrying...
In fact, he was already old when Benjamin was born. Benjamin's brother is dead. Now Benjamin is the only one of the two brothers who is still alive, and our father loves him very much." New American BibleSo we said to my lord, ‘We have an aged father, and a younger brother, ...
was to be very special. The last time Joseph was mentioned in the Bible was when Jesus was 12 years old. We can assume, that being the honorable man he was, Joseph fulfilled the role of earthly father to the best of his ability with all the love any man can have for his son. ...
12God said, “This is the sign of the covenant that I make between me and you and every living creature that is with you, for all future generations:13I have set my bow in the clouds, and it shall be a sign of the covenant between me and the earth.14When I bring clouds over the...
Rarely playing a lead role, his characters infused the films he was in with gravity, tragedy and sardonic humor. He won an Emmy and a Golden Globe for his performance as Benjamin Franklin in the HBO series "John Adams." Wilkinson earned a best supporting actor Oscar nomination for his ...
When is a book an 'inspired' book? Ancient paganism and the dangers of compromise.Is the entire Bible truely the word of GOD?No credible Biblical scholar on this earth will claim that the Bible was written by Jesus himself. They all agree that the Bible was written after the departure of...
of the gemstone, which comes from a Semitic word meaning "speckled stone." Jasper is the usual English form for one of the Three Wise Men who brought gifts to the infant Christ according to medieval tradition and appears in the Bible as a reference to the stone itself in Revelations 4:3...
Life of Paul in the Bible Paul's birthplace was not the land Christ walked but the Hellenistic city of Tarsus, the chief city of the Roman province of Cilicia. Tarsus, modern-day Tersous in southeastern Turkey, has never been systematically excavated to first-century levels, so extensive arch...
Vision of the New Temple - In the twenty-fifth year of our exile, at the beginning of the year, on the tenth day of the month, in the fourteenth year
Politicizing the Bible: The Roots of Historical Criticism and the Secularization of Scripture, 1300-1700, by Scott W. Hahn and Benjamin Wiker (Herder & Herder, 2013). Hahn and Wiker historicize the historicizers. If you know someone tackling post-Reformation philosophy or theology at the college...