The first significant mention of Petra is in the Old Testament, as the Israelites approached Edom after their forty years in the desert. Local legend – running against the geographical evidence – maintains that it was in the hills just above Petra that God ordered Moses to produce water for ...
‘You are not my people,’ there they will be called ‘children of the living God.’” 27Isaiah cries out concerning Israel: “Though the number of the Israelites be like the sand by the sea, only the remnant will be saved. 28For the Lord will carry out his sentence on earth with ...
I did want to develop one particular point that was raised in the discussion regarding the selling of Joseph by his brothers (Genesis 50). This is a classic proof text used by Compatibilists to establish their deterministic worldview. They will argue that if the brothers intended the sale of...
Peak year: 1955 Debra, a variant of the name Deborah, has strong Jewish origins. In Hebrew, “devorah" translates to “bee," and Deborah is also the name of a Book of Judges figure in the Old Testament, who leads the Israelites to safety away from the Canaanites. Deborah was later ...
Peak year: 1955 Debra, a variant of the name Deborah, has strong Jewish origins. In Hebrew, “devorah" translates to “bee," and Deborah is also the name of a Book of Judges figure in the Old Testament, who leads the Israelites to safety away from the Canaanites. Deborah was later ...
Earlier this year, I saw the movie Groundhog Day with Bill Murray for the first time. I may have been the last person on the planet to see this, but it’s a movie about an East Coast weatherman named Phil Connors. And this weatherman is a jerk. Phil hates his job, he’s condescend...
[n] 3 However, it was not until[o] the first day of the eleventh month[p] of the fortieth year[q] that Moses addressed the Israelites just as[r] the Lord had instructed him to do. 4 This took place after the defeat[s] of King Sihon[t] of the Amorites, whose capital was[u]...
Luke 3 His Baptism and Temptation 1Now in the fifteenth year of the reign of Tiberius Cæsar, Pontius Pilate being governor of Judæa, and Herod being tetrarch of Galilee, and his brother Philip tetrarch of Ituræa and of the region of Trachonitis, and Lysanias the tetrarch of ...
Throughout the next 119 chapters (to Deuteronomy 34), only 40 years will elapse. The Sinai Theophany The Israelites have been led from Egypt to Mount Sinai by God himself, who appeared by day as a cloud and by night as a fire (Exodus 13:21). At God’s summons, Moses ascends the ...
By overlooking this reality, and by forgetting the importance of primary metaphors deeply integrated in the mode of expression, one brings misleading considerations into the question of how the Israelites represented YHWH. It also dismisses the evidence that the “figuration” of YHWH strongly depends...