December 9, 2021Andrew Sargent101 Most Misunderstood Verses,Biblical Studies,Contexualization,Old Testament Studies What the Woman Caught in Adultery Shouldn’t Teach Us: Law, Grace & Bad Hermeneutics John 8:7 is especially popular with non-Christians who resent any suggestion within Christianity that...
The passages that the author attends to here are of two types: those that are narratives of ritual human sacrifice and those that are stories of the monstrous massacres of warfare. The former usually have to do with the sacrifice of one or more individual persons in an act of worship of,...
The New Testament speaks of the cleansing effect of Christ’s blood. The writer of Hebrews declares:For if the blood of goats and bulls, and the ashes of a heifer sprinkling them that have been defiled, sanctify unto the cleanness of the flesh: how much more shall the blood of Christ, ...
Words from the root Aleph-Dalet-Mem permeate the entire Old Testament and participate in various situations, plots and intrigues – the creation of the world, the Jewish patriarchs (Israel and Edom), blood as a sign of murder, and as a sign of sacrifice. They also reach the cultural and ...
This eBook was produced by Anne Folland, Tiffany Vergon, Charles Franks and the Online Distributed Proofreading Team INTRODUCTION TO THE OLD TESTAMENT By JOHN EDGAR McFADYEN, M.A. (Glas.) B.A. (Oxon.) _Professor of Old Testament Literature and Exegesis,
as we fall. So the Fall is as much a modern event as an ancient one, as is the Lord’s Atonement, which is the lifting remedy that rescues us from the doom and gloom we may feel stuck within.” (James Ferrell,The Hidden Christ: Beneath the Surface of the Old Testam...
Desdemona’s words, virtually from beyond the grave, seem to me miraculous in every sense, a breathtaking testament to the power of human forgiveness; but I appreciate that such an interpretation could be seen as merely sentimental. Nonetheless, viewing these words, which had seemed to me (and...
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如果你有機會到北京的天壇——中國古代規模最大、等級最高的祭祀建築群——參觀,你可能會對佔地廣闊的天壇里完全沒有佛教、道教等中國宗教的偶像印象深刻。天壇的設計反映了古代中國“祭天”傳統的一些特點,而這些特點看上去跟舊約聖經摩西五經中記載的敬拜上帝的禮儀有很多相似之處。
Are you talking about New Testament times, during the time of the Roman Empire? If so, there's another page on that topic. But if you're talking about the era of the Hebrew Bible, starting around 1990-1700 BCE and continuing through the time of Alexander the Great to about 300 BCE, ...