Tag: bible

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The Bible was written over a long period of time, and it reflects the cultures of many different ancient civilizations, including Ancient Egypt, Ancient Mesopotamia, Ancient Greece, and Ancient Rome. By understanding these cultures, we can better understand the stories and messages of the Bible. For...

The 6th edition of this Bible Encyclopedia (January 2016) contains 694 pages (8.5X11) of information, over 5,500 entries, and over 6,000 cross references. The new edition contains almost 1,000 new words and updated entries. Twenty-five years of research have gone into this one-of-a-kind reference t...

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The descendants of Shem, Ham, and Japheth, the sons of Noah, form the cornerstone of post-flood human history as described in the Bible. Their genealogies, detailed in Genesis 10 (often referred to as the Table of Nations), have long intrigued historians, theologians, and scholars for the insights t...

The Insufficiency of Literary Analysis Unaccompanied by Other Tools New Testament critics generally assume that our gospels are the product of a scribe having two or more editions before him, which he takes together to produce a new version that contains material from the old sources. They say this,...

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All Scripture is God-breathed and is useful for teaching, rebuking, correcting and training in righteousness, so that the man of God may be thoroughly equipped for every good work.—2 Timothy 3:16-17, NIV Someone recently asked if I consider the Bible the inspired and inerrant word of God or if I fee...

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If you read Matthew, Mark, and Luke in a row, you get a “haven’t I read this before” feeling, because they are so similar to each other. In many places, they even have identical wording! For this reason, Bible scholars lump them together with the term “synoptic gospels.” The word “synoptic” means “t...