Christian Bible History & Culture
azw3 |eng | 2020-04-27 | Author:Bernd U. Schipper [Schipper, Bernd U.]

5.2 Persian Policy from 539 to 333 Neither the variety of forms of Yahwism in the fifth and fourth centuries nor the return of a group of exiles would have ...
( Category: Ancient Civilizations July 20,2020 )
epub |eng | | Author:Samuel L. Adams

4 Taxation and the Role of the State Taxation played a major role in the economy of the Second Temple period. Most persons had to participate in the system in ...
( Category: Criticism & Interpretation July 2,2020 )
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 | 2017-08-10 | Author:Joseph Campbell

Chapter 7 — GREAT ROME: 500 b.c.–500 a.d. I. The Celtic Province Caesar’s Gallic wars, commencing in 58 b.c., opening Europe to the empire of Rome as Pompey’s wars had ...
( Category: Folklore & Mythology May 1,2020 )
epub |eng | 2019-11-05 | Author:Brian Godawa [Godawa, Brian]

Chapter 3: The Spiritual World of China Tower of Babel and the Tomb of Qin In the novel Qin: Dragon Emperor of China , reference is made to Chinese oracle ...
( Category: Christian Bible History & Culture April 4,2020 )
epub |eng | 2019-11-06 | Author:Brian Godawa [Godawa, Brian]

Sheol Sheol was the Hebrew word for the underworld.[146] Though the Bible doesn’t contain any narratives of experiences in Sheol, it was nevertheless described as the abode of the dead ...
( Category: Spiritual Warfare April 4,2020 )
epub |eng | 2019-12-20 | Author:Eric H. Cline

FIG. 38. Aerial view, looking west, in 1937 (after Loud 1948: frontispiece; courtesy of the Oriental Institute of the University of Chicago) Of course, it is one thing to sit ...
( Category: Ancient Civilizations March 26,2020 )
azw |eng | 2003-09-29 | Author:Iain Provan & V. Philips Long & Tremper Longman III [Provan, Iain]

Was David a Historical Person? Did David exist? Was he historical? Not so long ago, increasing numbers of scholars, though far from a majority, were voicing the opinion that David ...
( Category: Christian Bible History & Culture March 23,2020 )
azw |eng | 2015-10-31 | Author:David A. Fiensy

Byzantine Capernaum (early 4th–early 7th cent. ce) During the first half of the fourth century, Capernaum continued to experience the demographic decline that characterized the rest of the Galilee. Between ...
( Category: Archaeology March 23,2020 )
epub |eng | 2019-05-28 | Author:Lucy Peppiatt

MASTERS AND HUSBANDS We have three passages relating to husbands and wives in the New Testament: Ephesians 5:21-33, Colossians 3:18-19, and 1 Peter 3:1-7. In each case, wives are addressed ...
( Category: Women's Studies March 15,2020 )
epub |eng | 2019-11-19 | Author:N. T. Wright & Michael F. Bird [Wright, N. T.]

( Category: New Testament March 13,2020 )
epub |eng | 2018-09-03 | Author:Amy L. Balogh [Balogh, Amy L.]

Why “Uncircumcised of Lips” (Exod 6:12, 30) The content and creation language of the opening chapters of Exodus make it clear that the Hebrew people “were fruitful and multiplied” (cf. ...
( Category: Mesopotamia March 10,2020 )
epub |eng | 2017-10-04 | Author:John H. Walton

God has planned to dwell among people. We have learned that at the center of God’s plan and purposes (even if not at the center of each book of the ...
( Category: Christian Bible History & Culture March 8,2020 )
epub |eng | 2014-06-30 | Author:Roland Boer [Roland Boer and Christina Petterson]

The moral coding of Smith’s work emerges here in all its glory, a moral coding reinforced time and again through stories such as this. The industrious merchant is of course ...
( Category: Criticism & Interpretation March 8,2020 )
epub |eng | 2017-10-04 | Author:Walton, John H.;

God has planned to dwell among people. We have learned that at the center of God’s plan and purposes (even if not at the center of each book of the ...
( Category: Christian Bible History & Culture March 7,2020 )