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- Tobit, written 225-175 BCE. This book tells the story of two Israelite people, a blind man named Tobit living in Nineveh and a woman named Sarah, living in a city called Ecbatana.
- Judith, written about 100 BCE. Judith, a Jewish widow, attracts and seduces an Assyrian general besieging her city. Having ingratiated herself with him, she waits until he is drunk and then decapitates him, saving the capital Jerusalem from total destruction.
- Esther, written around 115 BCE. Although the Hebrew version of Esther is canonical, the Greek translation adds six sections to it. Esther is the story of an Israelite woman who saves her people from an anti-Israelite Persian plot.
- Wisdom of Solomon, written around 50 BCE. This book centers on the importance of Wisdom as related to humans and to God. It may have influenced the famous prologue of the Gospel of John, with wisdom replaced by the “Word.”
1 day ago · In this episode of Mutuality Matters, “Women and Words: Bible Translation and Why it Matters,” Dr. Helene Dallaire, who holds a PhD in Hebraic and Cognate Studies and serves as the Earl S. Callen Professor of Old Testament and Semitic Languages at Denver Seminary. This episode touches on the most mistranslated verse in Scripture, prophetesses in the Old and New Testament, Genesis 1 and 2 ...
- Faith in Our Great God Should Follow Our Prayers (20:14-30).
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As the people were gathered at the Temple in prayer, the Spirit of God came upon a prophet (20:14) who encouraged them not to fear and assured them that God would undertake for them in this battle without their fighting at all (20:15-17; not God’s usual means!). When they heard this word through the prophet, everyone fell down and worshiped and the...
Hudson Taylor, the great pioneer missionary to inland China in the last century, went through numerous, difficult trials. He lost his wife and at least one child in death. His own life was often in danger. He used to say, “It doesn’t really matter how great the pressure is; it only matters where the pressure lies. See that it never comes between yo...
How can we keep from growing bitter toward God when trials hit?Agree/disagree: Pride (self-reliance) is the main thing that keeps us from prayer.If we only pray to get what we want rather than to seek God Himself, what does it reveal about us?How can we trust God when we feel that He has let us down about something in the past?- Sometimes the Dead Aren’t Actually Dead. Coming back to life is prime content for the Bible — it happened at least twice in the New Testament alone. One of the lucky resurrected was Lazarus.
- The Voice of God. God talks a lot in the Bible, which, fair, since it’s his book. But how could anyone — scribes or prophets — hear the big man upstairs?
- Gigantism. It’s been immortalized in art for millennia, but what does science have to say about Goliath and his puny, but triumphant, friend David? Well, for much of human history, people were pretty short.
- The Canaanites Are All Right. Deuteronomy 20:17 instructed the Israelites to “completely destroy them — the Hittites, Amorites, Canaanites, Perizzites, Hivites and Jebusites — as the LORD your God has commanded you.”
Jun 21, 2021 · Craig Keener. The top verse associated with Trump’s presidential campaign in 2016 was 2 Chronicles 7:14: “If my people, who are called by my name, will humble themselves and pray and seek my ...
With many books of the Bible, we can have a reasonably good idea who wrote them, through a combination of internal evidence (what the writings say themselves), external evidence (what other sources tell us), and tradition (what people have historically believed and taught down the centuries).
Aug 29, 2024 · Mary Fairchild. Updated on August 29, 2024. Hebrews Chapter 11 is often called the "Hall of Faith" or the "Faith Hall of Fame." In this noted chapter, the writer of the book of Hebrews introduces an impressive list of heroic figures from the Old Testament—remarkable men and women whose stories stand out to encourage and challenge the faith.
