God is present everywhere (Sirach 16:17-23); He created the world as an ordered whole (Sirach 16:26-30) and made man intelligent and supreme over all flesh. The ...

11 God said , “Let the land produce vegetation : plants yielding seeds and trees on the land bearing fruit with seed in it, according to their kinds .” It was ...

Solomon speaks in the first person in this book (The Wisdom of Solomon 6 through 9), as he does in Eccl 1:12 ff, for that he is made the speaker until the close ...

11 The evildoer must continue to do evil , and the one who is morally filthy must continue to be filthy . The one who is righteous must continue to act ...

state of spiritual exaltation best described as a trance” (R. H. ... (orgh) in Rev 16:19 and 19:15 are taken to be a strengthen- ... Then books were opened, and ...

1 During the time of the judges , there was a famine in the land of Judah. So a man from Bethlehem in Judah went to live as a resident foreigner in the ...

The Hebrew title has perished with the original Hebrew text. Rabbinical writers call the Books of Maccabees ciphere ha-chashmonim, "The Book of the Hasmoneans" ...

Introductory. The Book of Esther in the oldest manuscripts of the Septuagint (B,A,N, etc.) contains 107 verses more than in the Hebrew Bible. These additions ...

Jun 18, 2004 · The author was familiar with geography (2:23), Jewish customs (cf. 1:18-19), Jewish history (he calls Herod Antipas “tetrarch” instead of “king”) ...