by hadassah | Dec 16, 2021 | Introduction
The Fertile Crescent and Egypt Courtesy of Biblical Archaeology Society What do you want to know? Ask our AI widget and get answers from this website Create Account Contact...
by hadassah | Oct 19, 2021 | Introduction
Mad to See the Monuments, Steven W. Holloway, Bible Review (17:6) Dec. 2001. In August of 1847, the British Museum mounted the first major display of Assyrian antiquities in England. For a year, the public had pored over sketches from Austen Henry Layard’s...
by hadassah | Aug 19, 2018 | Kingdoms of Israel and Judah
Isaiah 8:12 – Do not be in fear In the New Testament, Peter said there would be persecution but not to be afraid. “Do not fear their threats and do not be troubled” (1Pet 3:14). Having said that, he turns around in the next verse (1Pet 3:15). and...
by hadassah | Aug 19, 2018 | Kingdoms of Israel and Judah
Isaiah 64: 4-9, Filthy Rags The statement, “All our righteousness is like filthy rags”, is found in the middle of a Biblical poem in Isaiah (Isaiah 64:4-9). The kingdom is upheld with righteousness A theme in the Hebrew Bible in the Book of Isaiah...
by hadassah | Aug 19, 2018 | Kingdoms of Israel and Judah
Isaiah 8:14 – Stone of stumbling The New Testament writers Peter and Paul, draw on the words of Isaiah the prophet Paul, like Peter, links the two passages in Isaiah (Romans 9:30-33). It is interesting, incidentally, to note how Paul edits the passages. As we...
by hadassah | Aug 16, 2018 | Kingdoms of Israel and Judah
The Mind of the Lord —The Potter and the Clay “My thoughts are not your thoughts, neither are your ways my ways… for as the heavens are higher than the earth, so are my ways higher than your ways, and my thoughts than your thoughts” (Isaiah...
