Who were the Amorites and what did they do? Amorite, member of anancient Semitic-speaking people who dominated the history of Mesopotamia, Syria, and Palestinefrom about 2000 to about 1600 bc. In the oldest cuneiform sources (c. 2400–c. 2000 bc), the Amorites were equated with the West...
Aramaic Bible in Plain EnglishAnd they came to Zurbabeil and to the Chiefs of the fathers, and they were saying to them: “We will also build with you, because like you we will build for your God, and it is to him we sacrifice here from the days of Serakhdum King of Assyria who...
Always the pragmatist, Octavian saw in Herod the ruler he wanted in Palestine. The Roman senate nominated him the king of Judea and equipped him with his own army. So in 37 BC, at the age of 36, Herod became King of the Jews—a position he’d hold for about 37 years. ...
With this article we continue our series on Israel, Palestine, and the biblical understanding of "the land." The first installment in the series, Gerald McDermott's "The Land: Evangelicals and Israel," appeared in the March/April 2003 issue. Afew years ago on a research visit to Jerusalem...
‘Türkiye will continue to support Palestine’ President Erdogan also called on the Islamic world and humanity to unite against “Israeli terrorism”. “With the stronger stance of the Islamic world and the unity of humanity, the oppression and...
the ten kingdoms. This means that we have the distinct advantage over the Bible writers who were prophesying about the future, in that we can simply look up our history books and find out who it was that destroyed the three roman kingdoms and hence identify who the Bible is speaking of ...
Neo-Assyrian period, the kings of Assyria increased their kingdom's size to its largest yet. In addition to retaking Babylon and part of modern-day Lebanon, the Assyrians launched a series of campaigns into modern-day Israel and Palestine, resulting in numerous mentions in the Hebrew Bible....
THE CANON XII. HOW THE BOOKS WERE WRITTENXIII. HOW MUCH IS THE BIBLE WORTH? WHO WROTE THE BIBLE? CHAPTER I. A LOOK INTO THE HEBREW BIBLE. The aim of this volume is to put into compact and popular form, for the benefit of intelligent readers, the principal facts upon which scholars ...
' p. 48). In the parable, however, it is not the structure, but the foundation, that is wrong.The sandmay refer, as Stanley suggests ('Sinai and Palestine,' ch. 13. p. 430), to one locality, in which case it is probably "the long sandy strip of land which bounds the eastern ...
3. The stories were passed from person to person orally for decades, eventually touching thousands or tens of thousands of people. The religion spread quickly by evangelism and trade through the Ancient Near East, from Palestine to Egypt, Syria, Asia Minor, Greece, Italy, and beyond. ...