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However, the Bible contends that Asa won the battle. It is a possibility that Cushites gained dominance in Upper and Lower Egypt during the 9th and 8th century. Zerah was most likely a Cushite of Nubia located in Southern Egypt and Northern Sudan who came to power as ruler of Egypt or at the very least a Nubian commander of The Egyptian/Nubian ...
This genealogy matches that given in several other places in the Bible. Harold Fowler notes that the portion from this verse to Matthew 1:6 seems to be based on Ruth 4:18–22. [1] It covers a period before and during the Egyptian captivity. The genealogy runs through Judah, Perez, Hezron, and Aram.
In Judaism, bible hermeneutics notably uses midrash, a Jewish method of interpreting the Hebrew Bible and the rules which structure the Jewish laws. [1] The early allegorizing trait in the interpretation of the Hebrew Bible figures prominently in the massive oeuvre of a prominent Hellenized Jew of Alexandria, Philo Judaeus, whose allegorical reading of the Septuagint synthesized the ...
Depiction of the book of life. In Judaism, Christianity and Islam ( Angels) the Book of Life (Biblical Hebrew: ספר החיים, transliterated Sefer HaḤayyim; Ancient Greek: βιβλίον τῆς ζωῆς, romanized: Biblíon tēs Zōēs Arabic: سفر الحياة, romanized: Sifr al-Ḥayā) is an alleged book in which God records, or will record, the names of every person who is ...
The mayanga (from a Hausa word meaning "cemetery") is only built by serious zār participants who have undergone multiple initiations and wish to become zār leaders. It is a private shrine where the bones of animal sacrifices are placed, and can provide direct access to one's possessing spirits, and resultingly increases a person's power.
Zara Yaqob's letter written in the Geʽez script at the Vatican Library. Zara Yaqob sent delegates to the Council of Florence in 1441, and established ties with the Holy See and Western Christianity. [26] They were confused when council prelates insisted on calling their monarch Prester John. They tried to explain that nowhere in Zara Yaqob's ...
Student's Life Application Bible is a student version of the book. It features "slice of life" stories provided by teenagers and abridged annotations. [3] The scholar Timothy Beal said that in the market for study Bibles, the NIV Study Bible is the Life Application Study Bible ' s primary rival. [2]
Hatata (/ h ɑː ˈ t ɑː t ə /; Ge'ez: ሐተታ ḥätäta "inquiry") is a Ge'ez term describing an investigation/inquiry. The hatatas are two 17th century ethical and rational philosophical treatises from present-day Ethiopia: One hatata is written by the Abyssinian philosopher Zara Yaqob (Zär'a Ya'eqob/Zera Yacob, in his text also named Wärqe, 1600–1693), supposedly in 1668.