... in the books of Leviticus [11] and Deuteronomy [14]. There are eleven in Deuteronomy which do not occur in Leviticus, and these are nearly all animals and birds which are not found in Egypt or the Holy Land, but which are numerous in the Arabian desert. They are not named in Leviticus a few weeks after the departure ... the people were thirty-nine years in the desert they are named, a strong proof that the list in Deuteronomy ...
... frequency in Hemingway's writings" 4: letters or symbols that are written or imprinted on a surface to represent the sounds ... any piece of written work as writing, especially when you are considering the style of language used in it. The writing ... N-UNCOUNT: usu poss N 5. An author's writings are all the things that he or she has written, especially on a particular subject. Althusser's writings are focused mainly on France... The pieces he is reading are adapted from the writings of Michael Frayn. N-PLURAL: usu ... the writing is on the wall, you mean that there are clear signs that a situation is going to become ...
... Israelites into Canaan. (See JOSHUA.) The books composing the Pentateuch are properly but one book, the "Law of Moses," the "Book ... that the so-called historical books of the Old Testament are not history at all, but a miscellaneous collection of stories ... by a variety of editors! As regards the Pentateuch, they are not ashamed to attribute fraud, and even conspiracy, to its ... fallible human writings, and the arguments on which its speculations are built are altogether untenable. The evidences in favour of the Mosaic authorship of the Pentateuch are conclusive. We may thus state some of them briefly: ( ...
... Yahweh is named in Nu 21:14. Other early references are Jud 5:14 margin; 8:14 margin. By the time ... the inscriptions which have been discovered. The chief of these are: the Baal Lebanon inscription found in Cyprus (beginning of the ... Orthography of the Period: In this oldest writing the vowels are rarely expressed, not even final vowels being indicated. The only ... besides the letters is a point separating the words. There are no special forms for final letters. Words are often divided at the ends of lines. The writing is ... In the alphabet, letters standing together bear similar names. These are ancient, being the same in Greek as in Semitic. ...
... Prophecy in Literary Form: In the literary form employed there are marked differences between Apocalyptic and Prophecy. Both make use of ... in the more restricted sense of the word, these visions are as a rule implied, rather than being described. Although Isaiah ... vehicle by which the prediction is conveyed. In Ezekiel there are visions, but only one of these--"the valley of dry bones"--is predictive. In it the symbols used are natural, not, as always in Apocalypses, arbitrary. Compare in Daniel ... bones naturally suggest death, and the process by which they are revivified the reader feels is the natural course such an ... the gorgeous, or the terrible features of the vision described are thrown into all the higher relief by the baldness ...
... these poems have praise for their keynote, and that there are outbursts of thanksgiving in many others, the fitness of the ... psalmos, as well as the Hebrew mizmor, both of which are used in the superscriptions prefixed to many of the separate ... hymnal of the Jewish nation. To individual psalms other titles are sometimes prefixed, such as shir, "song"; tehillah, "praise"; tephillah, "prayer ... According to the Hebrew text, followed by modern VSS, there are 150 separate poems in the Psalter. The Greek version has ... called in question at various points. Psalms 42 and 43 are almost certainly one poem (see refrain in 42:5,11 ... the superscriptions as part of an inspired text. These titles are clearly very old, for the Septuagint, in the 2nd ...
... 2. A volume or collection of sheets in which accounts are kept; a register of debts and credits, receipts and expenditures ... script, book, playscript] 5: a record in which commercial accounts are recorded; "they got a subpoena to examine our books" [syn ... rules or prescribed standards on the basis of which decisions are made; "they run things by the book around here" [syn ... for circulation and recorded on any of various materials that are durable and light enough to be easily portable. The papyrus ... bell-mouthed; bell tower, etc., which, for the most part, are self-explaining. Bell arch (Arch.), an arch of unusual form ... bells. Bell foundry, or Bell foundery, a place where bells are founded or cast. Bell gable (Arch.), a small gable- ...
... the Old Testament. The names by which these several books are generally known are Greek. The first book of the Pentateuch (q.v.) is ... to the death and burial of Joseph (12-50). There are five principal persons brought in succession under our notice in ... Theological Data (iv) Duplicates (v) Manner in Which the Sources Are Worked Together (vi) Criticism Carried to Extremes (2) In View ... which salvation is developed historically is particularistic, but its purposes are universal. 3. Connection with Succeeding Books: By the statements just ... hundreds of years had clasped between these events; which years are ignored, because they were in their details of no ...
... of definite signification. Hence, 3. More than one; many. Ladies are always of great use to the party they espouse, and ... Number itself importeth not much in armies, where the men are of weak courage. 5. In poetry, measure; the order and ... number. 8. In mathematics, number is variously distinguished. cardinal numbers are those which express the amount of units; as 1.2 ... 3.4.5.6.7.8.9.10. Ordinal numbers are those which express order; as first, second, third, fourth, etc ... referred to unity in general, and called quantity. Homogeneal numbers, are those referred to the same units; those referred to different units are termed heterogeneal. Whole numbers, are called integers. A rational ...
... 5:22-25). As regards sinful actions of men, they are represented as occurring by God's permission (Gen. 45:5 ... foresight than to signify that preparation care and supervision which are necessary to secure a desired future result. While all rational ... world, composed of beings who, in addition to animate life, are possessed of reason and moral free agency, and are governed by God, not necessitatively, but through an appeal to ... over and in behalf of the good, those whose wills are in harmony with the divine will. III. Biblical Presentation of ... plainly assumed by every Biblical writer. The Old Testament Scriptures are best understood when interpreted as a progressive revelation of ...
... also with Obadiah. The time and manner of his death are unknown. His reputed tomb is pointed out in the neighbourhood ... external conditions of the exiles. The expressions "prison," "bound," which are applied to the exiles, easily create a false impression, or ... one-sided idea. These terms surely to a great extent are used figuratively. Because the Jews had lost their country, their ... goodly number of Jewish names, which shows how the Jews are becoming settled and taking part in the business life of ... Genuineness. When compared with almost every other prophetic book, we are particularly favorably situated in dealing with the genuineness of the ... and efforts to prove a complicated composition of the book are scarcely made. Both the efforts of Zunz, made long ...
... in the Books of Kings. The contents of these books are comprehended under four heads. (1.) The first nine chapters of ... was certainly contemporary with Zerubbabel, details of whose family history are given (1 Chr. 3:19). The time of the composition ... Ezra was regarded as the author of the Chronicles. There are many points of resemblance and of contact between the Chronicles ... conclusion of the one and the beginning of the other are almost identical in expression. In their spirit and characteristics they are the same, showing thus also an identity of authorship. In their general scope and design these books are not so much historical as didactic. The principal aim ...
... third of these sects, the Essenes. Strangely enough, although there are frequent references in the New Testament to the other two ... of this third sect is undeniable. Even in Egypt they are known. Philo, the Jewish philosopher, gives an account of these ... attempts to derive it from some Greek root, but all are preposterous as etymologies. The etymology must be sought either in ... may say that to us the two most likely derivations are `asiya', "doers" or 'aciya', "healers." Our preference is for the ... of the Essenes. Philo and Josephus, as contemporaries and Jews, are necessarily our principal sources of information. Next is Pliny, though ... and then more emphatically, till he is named. The Essenes are brought forward as the very flower and perfection of ...
... Holy Ghost) in one Godhead, so that all the three are one God as to substance, but three persons as to ... to express this doctrine. The propositions involved in the doctrine are these: 1. That God is one, and that there is ... The term "Trinity" is not a Biblical term, and we are not using Biblical language when we define what is expressed ... true God, but in the unity of the Godhead there are three coeternal and coequal Persons, the same in substance but ... we assemble the disjecta membra into their organic unity, we are not passing from Scripture, but entering more thoroughly into the ... mother and son which lies at their basis. Sometimes they are the effect of mere syncretism, three deities worshipped in ...
... level with the sea. The altitudes of the intervening portions are in proportion to their situation with respect to these extremes ... Northwest of 4,000 or 5,000, whereas those which are situated near the middle of the West coast rise to ... directions; it has numerous caravan routes, and some important towns are situated in the heart of it. Arabian fancy has peopled ... were at one time very much better watered than they are at the present day. For centuries a constant process of ... of wells one or two generations ago, where now there are none. It follows that this district must formerly have supported ... extremes co-exist. In the southern angle where the mountains are highest there are two rainy seasons, one in spring ...