History & Culture
epub |eng | 2020-04-12 | Author:Titus M Kennedy

(52) THE LATRINE OF DESECRATION (Iron Age Toilet Seat) Date: 8th century BC Discovered: Jerusalem, Israel Period: Divided Kingdom Keywords: Hezekiah; toilet; latrine; Jehu; desecration; pagan; ritual Bible Passages: 2 ...
( Category: Handbooks June 17,2020 )
epub |eng | 2015-07-13 | Author:Matthews, Victor H.

Given the uncertainties of life in the ancient Near East, with the real and constant dangers of drought, famine, and war, it is not surprising to find that the Israelites ...
( Category: Criticism & Interpretation March 5,2020 )
epub |eng | 2013-08-14 | Author:John A. Beck [Beck, John A.]

The efforts of Adam and Eve to cover their nakedness with fig leaves did nothing to solve the larger problem of sin that had entered their lives. Name (to give ...
( Category: History & Culture March 2,2020 )
azw3, epub |eng | 2015-09-01 | Author:Walter Brueggemann [Brueggemann, Walter]

Thus, when we “cross the Jordan” from the Torah into the account of the land entry in Joshua 3–4, we are in a very different world of land acquisition. Now ...
( Category: African March 1,2020 )
azw3 |eng | 2015-10-02 | Author:Greenwood, Kyle [Greenwood, Kyle]

It is usually dangerous to generalize an entire century, let alone several centuries, according to a single defining element. However, thanks in large part to Jules Michelet’s History of France ...
( Category: History & Culture February 23,2017 )
mobi |eng | 2008-12-31 | Author:Gauss, Dr. James F. [Gauss, Dr. James F.]

As you discovered in Chapter two, Allah cannot lower himself to have a son. If he can have no son, then he cannot have children. “Allah, the god revealed in ...
( Category: History & Culture February 23,2017 )
epub |eng | 2016-08-06 | Author:Thomas Aquinas [Aquinas, Thomas]

QUESTION 38 [On Contention] One should next consider contention. About this, two queries are raised. (1) Whether contention is a mortal sin. (2) Whether it is the daughter of vainglory. ...
( Category: Religious August 7,2016 )
epub, mobi |eng | | Author:Bruce Feiler

We entered Nebuchadnezzar II’s palace. Reconstructed walls of caramel-colored bricks climbed forty feet high, topped with hundreds of small pyramidal merlons. The walls were interrupted with elongated arches, more than ...
( Category: General March 14,2016 )
epub |eng | 1997-01-01 | Author:Rick Joyner [Joyner, Rick]

This is why many of the heresy hunters become so mean-spirited, easily departing from biblical teachings on bringing correction in the church, when they themselves claim to be protectors of ...
( Category: Pentecostal & Charismatic January 25,2016 )
mobi |eng | 2012-04-16 | Author:Faisal Malick

Within one week I had not one miracle but two. First, I got a letter from the college saying that they were sorry they made a mistake about the scholarship ...
( Category: History & Culture November 14,2015 )
epub, mobi |eng | 2010-02-01 | Author:Craig A. Evans [Evans, Craig A.]

Encampment: The Essenes establish themselves in “camps” and in the wilderness (Philo, Every Good Man Is Free 76; On the Contemplative Life 18–23; Josephus, Antiquities 18.124). According to the Community ...
( Category: Dead Sea Scrolls June 6,2015 )
azw3 |eng | 2010-02-16 | Author:R.C. Sproul

ARTICLE VII: Inspiration We affirm that inspiration was the work in which God by His Spirit, through human writers, gave us His Word. The origin of Scripture is divine. The ...
( Category: Exegesis & Hermeneutics April 10,2015 )
epub |eng | 2013-12-13 | Author:Joey Faust [Faust, Joey]

consistently denied. A revision sponsored by men of such New Theology bias can hardly be expected to serve the purposes of an evangelical denomination...” (Homiletic Magazine, Volume 43, Evangelical Lutheran ...
( Category: History & Culture March 19,2015 )
mobi |eng | 2012-08-09 | Author:Geisler, Norman L. & Nix, William E. [Geisler, Norman L.]

By the time the fourth century dawned, the New Testament canon was fully settled and acknowledged. The writings of the Fathers indicate the general agreement of all Christians about the ...
( Category: History & Culture March 11,2015 )
epub |eng | 2012-01-01 | Author:Finkelstein, Israel & Mazar, Amihai [Finkelstein, Israel]

Yet, the question remains, is this great epic historically reliable? What if David and Solomon were, as some scholars now contend, purely legendary characters with no more historical substance than ...
( Category: Old Testament February 15,2015 )