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They let Uriah go free only after he has (reluctantly) agreed to resign his position and return the money that he has stolen. Later in the novel, David encounters Uriah for the last time. In prison for bank fraud and awaiting transportation, Uriah acts like a repentant model prisoner. However, in conversation with David, he reveals himself to ...
Uriah the Hittite (Hebrew: אוּרִיָּה הַחִתִּי ʾŪrīyyā haḤīttī) is a minor figure in the Hebrew Bible, mentioned in the Books of Samuel, an elite soldier in the army of David, king of Israel and Judah, and the husband of Bathsheba, the daughter of Eliam. While Uriah was serving in David's army abroad, David, from the ...
Uriah Heep may refer to: Uriah Heep (David Copperfield) , a character in the Charles Dickens novel David Copperfield Uriah Heep (band) , a British rock band active since 1969
The Book That Jesus Wrote: John's Gospel. Doubleday. ISBN 978-0868247120. Vermes, Géza (1973). Jesus the Jew: A Historian's Reading of the Gospels. Minneapolis, MN: Fortress Press. ISBN 978-0800614430. Vermes is a prominent figure in contemporary historical Jesus research. [8] Wallace-Murphy, Tim; Hopkins, Marilyn; Simmans, Graham (March 30 ...
One particular statement from early on appears to summarize the development of the subject matter that Ehrman attempts to cover in this volume: "Scholars of the Bible have made significant progress in understanding the Bible over the past two hundred years, building on archaeological discoveries, advances in our knowledge of the ancient Hebrew ...
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.
Joel B. Green writes that "these parables are fundamentally about God, ... their aim is to lay bare the nature of the divine response to the recovery of the lost." [2] The rejoicing of the shepherd with his friends represents God rejoicing with the angels. The image of God rejoicing at the recovery of lost sinners contrasts with the criticism ...
Uriah (Book of Kings), a priest under Ahaz in the Books of Kings; Uriah (prophet), a prophet murdered by Jehoiakim in the Book of Jeremiah; Uriah, a priest and the father of Meremoth in the Book of Ezra (8:33) and Book of Nehemiah (3:4, 21) Uriah, a priest whom God offers to call as a witness in the Book of Isaiah (8:2)