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Mar 22, 2016 · Being a columnist means never having to ask permission. Or having to call Donald Trump “Mister Trump.”. Gail Collins writes a twice-weekly column about American politics and culture. Rachel...
- Susan Lehman
- Moses
- Ezra
- Nehemiah
- David
- Solomon
- Asaph and Family
- Sons of Korah
- Heman
- Ethan
- Agur
Moses is the prophet who leads Israel from slavery in Egypt to the edge of the promised land. He also wrote about 20% of your Bible. Of all the Old Testament prophets, nobody’s like Moses (Dt 34:10–12). Moses is a Hebrew born in Egypt and raised in Pharaoh’s house. After killing an abusive Egyptian slave driver, Moses escapes the death penalty by r...
Ezra is born long, long after Moses. But like the ancient prophet, Ezra leads a group of Israelites from exile in another nation back to the promised land. Ezra is a scribe (someone who reads, writes, and interprets documents), and he’s especially well-versed in the Law of Moses (Ezra 7:6). He’s actually related to Moses: Ezra is a great-great-grea...
Nehemiah is a cupbearer to the king of Persia when he gets some disturbing news: his countrymen back in Jerusalem are in dire straits, and the city is in shambles (Neh 1:3). Nehemiah then gets the go-ahead from King Artaxerxes to rebuild the city walls and gates, and takes off for Jerusalem. And get this: he gets the wall rebuilt in just 52 days (6...
You’ve all heard of this guy. He’s the shepherd boy who killed Goliath the giant. He’s the war-hero king who delivered Israel from her enemies and established Jerusalem as the capital of Israel. He’s the jerk who killed off Uriah so he could have Uriah’s wife. And maybe most importantly, he’s a messiah: someone anointed by God to rule the people in...
When Solomonsucceeds his father David as king of all Israel, the Lord appears to him in a dream. He gives Solomon the ultimate “blank check”: Solomon names anything he wants, and God will give it to him. Instead of asking for cash or the heads of his enemies, Solomon just asks God for wisdom. And boy, does God deliver: Solomon came up with 3,000 pr...
When David commissions the temple in Jerusalem, he appoints Asaph and his family to lead worship (1 Ch 16:5). We don’t know much about Asaph, except that he’s a singer from the tribe of Levi (2 Ch 5:12). He and his family must have been some awesome songwriters, because 12 of the Psalms are credited to him (Ps 50; 73–83).
When Moses is leading Israel through the wilderness, a Levite named Korah challenges Moses’ leadership. That doesn’t end well—the earth swallows up Korah and his followers. But Korah’s sons survive, and they have quite a legacy in the Bible through their music. The descendants of Korah wrote 11 psalms: 1. Psalm 42 2. Psalms 44–49 3. Psalms 84–85 4....
Before anyone gets overly excited, no, a Masters of the Universecharacter did not author part of the Bible (as far as I can tell). But the similarity in name is pretty funny. Heman was a wise man who co-authored the eighty-eighth psalm with the sons of Korah. He was wise enough to compare to Solomon, but not wiser (1 Ki 4:31).
Oh, look, another psalmist! Like his relative Heman, Ethan was one of the wisest men in the world. You know, besides Solomon (1 Ki 4:31). He wrote Psalm 89.
We don’t know much about the author of Proverbs 30. He must have been wise enough for the Jews to include in their book of wisdom, but he doesn’t think to highly of his smarts compared to God’s:
Mar 3, 2022 · Some say it carries the elixir of eternal life. Other writers reimagined the grail as the philosopher’s stone, a stone with the ability to give longevity. Or perhaps it also played into the fountain of youth narrative that later played a role in historical conquests. Other myths have attributed the Holy Grail to satisfying the needs of ...
May 30, 2023 · In the Bible, Gall has multiple meanings and uses throughout the Old and New Testaments: Any bitter or poisonous substance, like bile ~ Job 16:13. Venom of serpents ~ Job 20:14. A bitter herb ...
Jul 19, 2019 · Collins is right to emphasize the point, since the Bible tolerates and regulates slavery, and even presents slavery as a Christian ideal: Jesus took on the form of a slave (Phil. 2) and Paul regularly calls himself a “slave of Christ” (Rom. 1:1; Gal 1:10). But Collins misses important subtleties.
Feb 21, 2019 · Dr. C. John Collins: Lewis began one of his books this way: “The first qualification for judging any piece of workmanship from a corkscrew to a cathedral is to know what it is—what it was intended to do and how it is meant to be used.”. Straightaway, Lewis has drawn our attention to three aspects of a work of literary craftsmanship:
Gail Collins is an op-ed columnist for The New York Times, where she previously served as editorial page editor—the first woman to hold that position.She is the author of When Everything Changed: The Amazing Journey of American Women from 1960 to the Present; America's Women: 400 Years of Dolls, Drudges, Helpmates, and Heroines; and Scorpion Tongues: Gossip, Celebrity, and American Politics.
