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Believers are called “Christians” for the first time. 25-26 Then Barnabas went to Tarsus to find Saul. When he found him he brought him up to Antioch. Then for a whole year they met together with the Church and taught a large crowd. It was in Antioch that the disciples were first given the name of “Christians”.
Sep 8, 2023 · Tracing the Timeline of the Bible's Origins. The Hebrew Bible emerged as the literary expression of a community-dwelling within the narrow expanse of land nestled between the ancient Babylonian (and Assyrian) empires to the east and Egypt to the west.
Its ultimate origin is most likely via the former river Adria from the Venetic and Illyrian word adur, meaning "sea" or "water". [1][2] The Adria was until the 8th century BC the main channel of the Po River into the Adriatic Sea but ceased to exist before the 1st century BC.
Oct 11, 2023 · The Word of God: Evidence that Scripture is Divine. First, I believe the Bible is the Word of God because of its scientific accuracy. The Truth of the Word of God tells us that God “hangeth the earth upon nothing” (Job 26:7).
Feb 14, 2023 · The earliest copies of parts of the Hebrew Bible are from the Dead Sea Scrolls, a set of texts found in the Qumran caves and that include both biblical and non-biblical manuscripts. These can be dated between the third and first centuries BCE.
Where is the "Adriatic Sea" (Acts 27:27)? Two thousand years ago, "Adriatic Sea" referred to the entire body of water east of Italy down to its southern tip.
Jul 12, 2011 · The Old Testament is the original Hebrew Bible, the sacred scriptures of the Jewish faith, written at different times between about 1200 and 165 BC.
