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Vision of Obadiah. According to the Talmud, Obadiah is said to have been a convert to Judaism from Edom, [9] a descendant of Eliphaz, the friend of Job. He is identified with the Obadiah who was the servant of Ahab, and was chosen to prophesy against Edom because he was himself an Edomite.
The earlier period would place Obadiah as a contemporary of the prophet Elijah. The later date would place Obadiah as a contemporary of the prophet Jeremiah. A sixth-century date for Obadiah is a "near consensus" position among scholars. [16] Obadiah 1–9 contains parallels to the Book of Jeremiah 49:7–22.
Equally high was Obadiah's reputation as a casuist. Meïr Katzenellenbogen consulted him on legal questions, [5] and Joseph Colon invoked his authority. [6] At the request of Israel ben Jehiel Ashkenazi, rabbi of Rome, Obadiah issued a decision in the case of Donina, daughter of Samuel Ẓdarfati, the renowned physician of the pope.
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An apocryphal work in ten books called Historia Certaminis Apostolici ("History of the Apostolical Contest") [2] was traditionally ascribed to an Abdias, assumed to be this bishop of Babylon. [3] It is a major collection of New Testament apocrypha , which tells of the labors and miracles, persecution and deaths of the Apostles.
According to 1 Kings 18:4, Obadiah hid a hundred prophets of God in two caves, fifty in each, to protect them from Jezebel, Ahab's wife.Later statements of the prophet Elijah, where he describes himself as the only remaining prophet of Yahweh [2] led biblical theologian Otto Thenius to conclude that eventually they were captured and killed, but George Rawlinson and other commentators argue ...
"Obadiah the Norman Proselyte who entered the covenant of the God of Israel in the month of Ellul, year 1413 of Documents which is 4862 of Creation" [10] [11] "he, Obadiah the Proselyte, has written [this prayer-book] with his own hand" [10] Obadiah is known to us exclusively through a variety of documents from the Cairo Geniza, all but one in ...
It was created in 1827 and published first in Geneva, Switzerland in 1837 as Histoire de Mr. Vieux Bois, [1] then in London in 1841 by Tilt and Bogue editions as the book The Adventures of Mr. Obadiah Oldbuck, [1] [2] and then in New York, U.S., in a newspaper supplement titled Brother Jonathan Extra No. IX (September 14, 1842), [3] [4] [5 ...