. . at the earliest. Of course outside of my immediate family, nobody follows my rules . . . especially retailers. So, Advent overlaps with what is usually thought of in American culture as the Christmas season. But its beginning and ending are well defined, and its themes are quite a...
The Merarite Levites would also sing the Songs of Ascent in the temple as part of their choir worship. What Are the Songs of Ascent in the Bible? In Hebrew, the Songs of Ascent encompass Psalms 120-134. In the Septuagint, which is the earliest Greek translation of the Bible, the Songs...
The impression given by Exodus, that cherubim played a central role in the earliest stage of Judaism, is reinforced by references to cherubim elsewhere in the Tanakh: Statues of cherubim, of a somewhat different form, also spread their wings over the ark in the Jerusalem temple (1 Kings 6:...
Spectacular examples of complete preservation are known from the Devonian, which show these fish had fins and ganoid scales. Fish that we can definitively recognize as teleosts first appear in the Early Jurassic, but also have ganoid scales (Long 2011; Friedman 2015). The earliest teleost fish ...