The Tower of Babel was located in the plain of Shinar which is most likely in present-day Iraq. In Hebrew, Shinar means the “country of two rivers” which refers to the Tigris and Euphrates Rivers that flow through Iraq. Genesis 10:8-10 gives some background information about the land ...
In the third year of the reign of Jehoiakim king of Judah, Nebuchadnezzar king of Babylon came to Jerusalem and besieged it. And the Lord gave Jehoiakim king of Judah into his hand, with some of the vessels of the house of God. And he brought them to the land of Shinar, to the hous...
The Septuagint translated the Hebrew term as parthenos, which normally does mean virgin, and this translation underlies Mt 1:23. Emmanuel: the name means “with us is God.” Since for the Christian the incarnation is the ultimate expression of God’s willingness to “be with us,” it is ...
I should note that in Hebrew and also the Greek used by the Jews, the word “feet” also means “legs.” The lineup of the moon, as described, does not occur nearly as well in other years, and in some years, not at all. This is because the sun varies its location in the ...
He brakes the bonds that hold Myrddraal, Shinarin and white cloaks and make them follow him. If you just wanna chalk up everything to luck or, by small chance ,or unlikely probability that he survived and managed to do what he did, well that can all be summed up in one word. ...
While a theory or model may not be ultimately correct, it nevertheless can make a contribution to understanding, and the measure of a theory or model's value is the extent to which it does this. Our efforts to change behavior very much depend on which theories and models we choose, since...
Recent philosophy has attended to logic of justification of measures, such as construct validation, but not to the question of what it means for an instrument to be a valid measure of a construct. A prominent approach grounds validity in the existence of a causal link between the attribute ...
12 Arameans from the east and Philistines from the west have devoured Israel with open mouth. Yet for all this, his anger is not turned away, his hand is still upraised. 13 But the people have not returned to him who struck them, nor have they sought the Lord Almighty.14 So the ...
(2019) explore some possibilities to overcome this long-lasting challenge of the shared control approaches: automation communicates its intended manoeuvre and possible alternatives to the driver, who can select an alternative if he/she does not agree with the intention of the automated system. Despite...
As the decomposition of Theil index shows, the observed decline of regional disparities in the EU as a whole does not necessarily mean that disparities also decline within EU member states. Divergence in the EU during 1995–2000 was present because of increasing within-country disparities, mainly ...