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4 days ago · Conclusion. The writings of classical historians are invaluable for understanding the historical context of the Bible. Their accounts provide external corroboration of biblical events and figures, enhancing the credibility of the biblical narrative. By studying these historians, we gain a richer, more nuanced understanding of the ancient world ...
4 days ago · The historicity of the Bible is the question of the Bible 's relationship to history —covering not just the Bible's acceptability as history but also the ability to understand the literary forms of biblical narrative. [1] One can extend biblical historicity to the evaluation of whether or not the Christian New Testament is an accurate record ...
5 days ago · The Genesis creation narrative is the creation myth of both Judaism and Christianity. The narrative is made up of two stories, roughly equivalent to the first two chapters of the Book of Genesis . In the first, Elohim (the Hebrew generic word for god ) creates the heavens and the Earth in six days, then rests on, blesses, and sanctifies the ...
5 days ago · 31. In the thirty-seventh year of the exile of Jehoiachin. king of Judah, in the year Awel-Marduk became king of Babylon, on the twenty-fifth day of the twelfth month, he released Jehoiachin king of Judah and freed him from prison. 32. He spoke kindly to him and gave him a seat of honor higher than those of the other kings who were with him in ...
5 days ago · English Translation: But neither human effort, nor princely largesse, nor appeasements of the gods, could stifle the scandal or dispel the belief that the fire had been ordered. Therefore, to scotch the rumor, Nero substituted as culprits, and punished with the utmost refinements of cruelty, a class of men, loathed for their vices, whom the ...
5 days ago · 166 episodes. It's been said that people don't want to know: 1) how sausages are made, 2) how bibles are translated. In this podcast we bravely talk about the latter, go deep into biblical studies, and seek to treasure and understand the Bible together. It's for people who want to get nerdy about Scripture and for those who want to understand ...
4 days ago · The Septuagint translation of the Hebrew Bible into Greek, which the early Christian church used as its Old Testament, included all of the deuterocanonical books. The term distinguished these books from both the protocanonical books (the books of the Hebrew canon) and the biblical apocrypha (books of Jewish origin that were sometimes read in ...
