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Dec 14, 2022 · The first reference to "word of the LORD" is here. After these things the word of the LORD came unto Abram in a vision, saying, Fear not, Abram: I am thy shield, and thy exceeding great reward. Gen 15:1. The first reference to "word of God" is here.
- An interesting question. There are just a very few occasions when the Greek word rhema is used to refer to 'God's words', John 8:47, and 'the goo...
- And he took the book of the covenant , and read in the audience of the people : and they said, All that the LORD hath said will we do , and be o...
- OP: I am asking specifically about the origin of using the phrase "word of God" to refer to the Bible. The first reference to "word of the LORD" is...
- The expression "word of God" (Hebrew "dabar elohim/דְּבַ֥ר אֱלֹהִֽים") seems to be first used by Samuel. And as they were going down to the end of...
- I see I am late to this, but I believe I found a possible answer. Long story short; I found in or around 1539 when King Henry VIII decided to allo...
Thus in Genesis 3:8-9, instead of ‘they heard the voice of the Lord God,’ the Targums have ‘they heard the voice of the Word of the Lord God;’ and instead of ‘God called unto Adam,’ they put ‘the Word of the Lord called unto Adam,’ and so on. ‘The Word of the Lord’ is said to occur 150 times in a single Targum of the Pentateuch.
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- A Cultural Shift
- The Magical Writing of Priests and Kings
- The Spread of Literacy and Origins of Biblical Literature
- Dark Years of Exile
- The Text Becomes The Teacher
In writing How the Bible Became a Book, I began with a different question than scholars usually ask. Namely, why did the Bible become a book at all? This question began to haunt me more and more as I studied the archeology of ancient Palestine and the early history of Hebrew writing. Scholars agree that early Israel was an oral society of pastorali...
In ancient Palestine, writing was a restricted and expensive technology. Writing was controlled by the government and manipulated by the priests. Writing was seen as a gift from the gods. It was not used to canonize religious practice, but rather to engender religious awe. Writing was magical. It was powerful. It was the guarded knowledge of politi...
The invention of alphabetic writing was a pivotal development in the history of writing, but it alone did not encourage the spread of writing beyond the palace and the temple. Recent discoveries at Wadi el-Hol in Egypt date the invention of the alphabet back to 2000 B.C., and for centuries after, writing likely remained the province of the elite. S...
The composition of biblical literature continued into the period of the Babylonian exile (586-539 B.C.), after the Babylonians overthrew the Assyrians in the north and invaded the Kingdom of Judah. However, it was hardly a time when biblical literature could flourish. The exile resulted in a massive depopulation of the land of Israel. Archeological...
By the time of the fall of Babylon in 539 B.C., and the return of the Jewish exiles to Palestine, the core of the Hebrew Bible was completed. The very language of Scripture changed as society became more textualized. Most tellingly, the Hebrew word torah, which originally meant "teaching, instruction," increasingly began to refer to a written text,...
Oct 5, 2021 · The origin of the word “Lord”. Think, for example, of the clash of Christianity and Anglo-Saxon culture that had to happen to give us the simple word “Lord.”. In English-speaking Christianity, “Lord” is the very name of God (“I am the Lord, that is my name,” Isa 42:8 ). Lord today is wholly unremarkable, utterly traditional.
1 Corinthians 14:35. If they wish to inquire about something, they are to ask their own husbands at home; for it is dishonorable for a woman to speak in the church. 1 Corinthians 14:37. If anyone considers himself a prophet or spiritual person, let him acknowledge that what I am writing you is the Lord's command.
To whom the word of the LORD came in the days of Josiah the son of Amon king of Judah, in the thirteenth year of his reign. the word. Jeremiah 1:4,11 Then the word of the LORD came unto me, saying, … 1 Kings 13:20 And it came to pass, as they sat at the table, that the word of the LORD came unto the prophet that brought him back: Hosea 1:1
Jan 1, 2011 · God created our world in six days. The first three days involved acts of separation, progressing from large acts of separation to smaller acts – separating light from darkness, earth from the sky, and land from the oceans and lakes. It was during the first three days that the foundation of our world was created.
