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The Cambridge Bible for Schools and Colleges notes that this was "the very least the slave could have done, [as] to make money in this way required no personal exertion or intelligence", [16] and Johann Bengel commented that the labour of digging a hole and burying the talent was greater than the labour involved in going to the bankers.
The story recounts the adventures of Judah Ben-Hur, a Jewish prince from Jerusalem, who is enslaved by the Romans at the beginning of the first century and becomes a charioteer and a Christian. Running in parallel with Judah's narrative is the unfolding story of Jesus , from the same region and around the same age.
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guarding one's reputation for honesty, fairness, and fidelity; taking responsibility for one's actions and their results; fulfilling one's commitments; taking care of items entrusted to one; being open to the ideas of others but not being too easily swayed by them; confronting lapses in integrity in oneself and in others
The Book of Virtues was mentioned as early as a May 1993 Chicago Tribune story on Bennett, [33] and was published in November 1993 by Simon & Schuster. [2] A four-tape audiobook edition, released the following September, featured readings by the compiler [ 34 ] and guest stars including Michael York and Dana Ivey ; [ 35 ] in this rendition ...
[8] Adventures from the Book of Virtues went on to become the first animated series to air on PBS in primetime. [9] The series sought to illustrate themes of common virtues through famous all-embracing heroes and stories, based on Bennett's Book of Virtues. The core audience were families with children who were between the ages of 6 and 10 ...
The Bible is not a single book; it is a collection of books whose complex development is not completely understood. The oldest books began as songs and stories orally transmitted from generation to generation. Scholars of the twenty-first century are only in the beginning stages of exploring "the interface between writing, performance ...
The Infancy Gospel of Thomas is an apocryphal gospel about the childhood of Jesus.The scholarly consensus dates it to the mid-to-late second century, with the oldest extant fragmentary manuscript dating to the fourth or fifth century, and the earliest complete manuscript being the Codex Sabaiticus from the 11th century.