The Bible describes YHWH as glowing (kabod), and YHWH’s heat as melting mountains, imagery connected with volcano gods, the divine patrons of metalworkers such as the Kenites, who lived in the Negev region. Indeed, the description of Israel’s encounter with YHWH at Sinai portrays a volcani...
The common claim is that the Aramaic language is used only in the books of Daniel, Ezra and a few other places in the bible. However, if you really study & examine all the facts, all of the Strong's Concordance Dictionary of "Hebrew" words are actually of the Aramaic, Babylonian, ...
8:2Test you.This is the same verb used in Abraham’s test regarding the sacrifice of Isaac (see... Dt 8:3 8:3Bread alone.Jesus quoted directly from this verse when he was being tested by the devil... Agriculture in the H...
In the first part (Genesis 1:1-2:3) Elohim the Hebrew generic word for God creates the heaven and the earth in six days, starting with darkness and light on the first day, and ending with the creation of mankind on the sixth day. God then rests on, blesses and sanctifies the seven...
According to one authority, “Laban, with polytheistic views, distinguishes between his god, ‘the god of Nahor,’ and ‘the God of Abraham,’ Jacob’s God” (Fausset’s Bible Encyclopedia). Commenting on this same verse Dr. Jamieson says, “It is observable that there was a marked diffe...