Napata, the capital in about 750–590 bce of the ancient kingdom of Cush (Kush), situated downstream from the Fourth Cataract of the Nile, near Kuraymah in the northern part of what is now Sudan. An area rather than a single town, Napata extended to the east and south of Kuraymah, ...
Map of the World of the Old TestamentDuring the time of the Old Testament the ancient world extended from Egypt to Asia Minor over to the Caspian Sea and down to the Persian Gulf. One thousand miles from north to south and nearly 1500 miles from west to east. Only about one-third of ...
An ancient nation . . . Gen... Elishah Elishah—God is salvation Son of Javan . . . Gen. 10:4 Enlargement Enlargement—extension in quantity or quality Japheth’s territory . . . Gen. 9:27 Israel’s... Erech Erech—size City of Shinar . . . Gen. 10:10 Ethio...
A map of time with which we may even find a way out of a time loop called history? Yes. +– + – + What we are talking about here is, quite literally, a ‘river of time’. And it involves primarily two ancient river systems: The Nile in Africa, the longest river in the world...
Nubia, ancient region in northeastern Africa, extending approximately from the Nile River valley (near the first cataract in Upper Egypt) eastward to the shores of the Red Sea, southward to about Khartoum (in what is now Sudan), and westward to the Libya
◆ 632 CANAAN (M. Names of Canaan) 7. Ancient Names, Ge 40:15; Ex 15:14; 1Sa 13:19; Isa 8:8; 62:4;...CENTURIONS - 653 Collapse ◆ 653 CENTURIONS, Roman officers over one hundred men, Mt 8:5; 8:9; 27:54; Mk 15:39; 15:...
Visit a land of green glens, purple mountains and rugged shores – where the ancient tales are still told
The 200 years from the fall of Kush to the middle of the 6th century is an unknown age in the Sudan. Nubia was inhabited by a people called the Nobatae by the ancient geographers and the X-Group by modern archaeologists, who are still at a loss to explain their origins. The X-Group...
Since ancient times the Sudan region has been an arena for interaction between the cultural traditions of Africa and those of the Mediterranean world. Islam and the Arabic language achieved ascendancy in many northern parts of the region, while older African languages and cultures predominated in ...
This section of curses follows the pattern of the ancient Near Eastern treaties, in... Deut. 12:31 12:31. Burnt in the fire: This practice was forbidden in Israel’s law (Lev. 18:21; 20:2–5),... Deut. 18:9–14 18:9–14. Pass through the f...