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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.”
Jun 29, 2024 · The Apocrypha is a list of 14 books that were ultimately excluded from the Hebrew Bible canon by Jews and by Protestant Christians who left them out of their Old Testament canon. The Greek word “apocrypha” simply means “concealed.”
Aug 26, 2024 · Depending on which type of “missing” book you’re talking about, the real questions are why certain books were “left out” of the Bible, how close they came to being included, and ultimately how we ended up with the canonical list of 66 that make up today’s Protestant Bibles.
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Oct 6, 2023 · When the tribes realised that the tribe of Benajmin might eventually die out because there were no wives left for the surviving men, they found the solution in further orgies of killing, and abducted hundreds of suitable virgins to force into marriage. You could argue that the rape of the concubine is clearly condemned in the story.
Why were the lost gospels thrown out? In the 2nd-3rd Centuries there were attempts to work out which of the gospels should be read as scriptures. The four gospels of the New Testament - Matthew,...
Nov 3, 2022 · The footnotes in your Bible summarize the situation from the translators’ perspective and point out the presence or absence of the material called Acts 8:37. Most modern Bible translations will at least have a sentence or two on this type of textual issue.
Genesis 14. New Century Version. Lot Is Captured. 14 Now Amraphel was king of Babylonia, Arioch was king of Ellasar, Kedorlaomer was king of Elam, and Tidal was king of Goiim. 2 All these kings went to war against several other kings: Bera king of Sodom, Birsha king of Gomorrah, Shinab king of Admah, Shemeber king of Zeboiim, and the king of Bela.
