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This book contains the prophecies attributed to the prophet/priest Ezekiel, and is one of the Books of the Prophets. [ 1 ] [ page needed ] This chapter contains two prophecies, one conveying "hope for the mountains of Israel " (verses 1–15) and one declaring that Israel's restoration is assured (verses 16–38). [ 2 ]
Building the Ark (watercolor c. 1896–1902 by James Tissot). The consensus of modern scholars is that Genesis was composed around the 5th century BCE, [3] but as the first eleven chapters show little relationship to the rest of the book, some scholars believe that this section (the so-called primeval history) may have been composed as late as the 3rd century BCE.
Depiction of Noah's ark landing on the "mountains of Ararat", from the North French Hebrew Miscellany (13th century). In the Book of Genesis, the mountains of Ararat (Biblical Hebrew הָרֵי אֲרָרָט , Tiberian hārê ’Ǎrārāṭ, Septuagint: τὰ ὄρη τὰ Ἀραράτ) [1] is the term used to designate the region in which Noah's Ark comes to rest after the Great Flood. [2]
Most Christians "readily conceded that the Bible allowed for an ancient earth and pre-Edenic life." [ 2 ] With very few exceptions they accommodated the new geological theories either with day-age creationism , the belief that the six days of Genesis represented vast ages, or by separating the original creation from a later Edenic creation: the ...
The Sermon on the Mount may be compared with the similar but shorter Sermon on the Plain as recounted by the Gospel of Luke (Luke 6:17–49), which occurs at the same moment in Luke's narrative, and also features Jesus heading up a mountain, but giving the sermon on the way down at a level spot. Some scholars believe that they are the same ...
Mount Hor (Hebrew: הֹר הָהָר , Hōr hāHār) is the name given in the Hebrew Bible to two distinct mountains. One borders the land of Edom in the area south of the Dead Sea , and the other is by the Mediterranean Sea at the Northern border of Israel .
Moses with Tablets of the Ten Commandments, painting by Rembrandt, 1659. Mount Horeb (/ ˈ h ɔːr ɛ b /; Hebrew: הַר חֹרֵב Har Ḥōrēḇ; Greek in the Septuagint: Χωρήβ, Chōrēb; Latin in the Vulgate: Horeb) is the mountain at which the Ten Commandments were given to Moses by God, according to the Book of Deuteronomy in the Hebrew Bible.
In discussing the role of his discipline in interpreting the biblical record, Dever has pointed to multiple histories within the Bible, including the history of theology (the relationship between God and believers), political history (usually the account of "Great Men"), narrative history (the chronology of events), intellectual history ...