In biblical times, there were three different tithes, each with a very specific purpose. These types of tithes together create a concept of giving to God first, then one's own needs, and provided a way to care for the needs of the less fortunate such as the orphans and widows....
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The concept of thesacred All of the ancient Middle Eastern people saw the agency of the gods in every aspect of life andnature. Everything on earth was regarded as a reflex of itsprototypein the divine or sacred sphere, such as in the biblical description of thecreationof man “in the ...
12th and appearing through the 17th Century CE, in literature carrying her through to the present day. The only actual Biblical reference to Lilith or ‘the liliths’ is in the Hebrew Bible (Isaiah 34:14); whether or not it truly represents this mysterious figure is a matter of conjecture....
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The priest will take a handful of the flour as a memorial offering and burn it on the altar on top of the offerings made by fire to the Lord; it is a sin offering. 13 In this way the priest will remove the person’s sins so he will belong to the Lord, and the Lord will ...
In some postbiblical Jewish writings, Gehenna, the incineration ground where children had once been sacrificed to the god Moloch, emerges as a realm of postmortem punishment more like hell than Sheol. In Gehenna the unjust dead would suffer a fiery torment of duration and severity proportionate ...