Tag: bible

Archaeology is a fascinating field. Its relationship to the Bible has captured the interest of many with movies such as "The Mummy" and "Raiders of the Lost Ark". Interestingly, the relationship between archaeology and the Bible is often misunderstood. It is commonly believed that archaeology has be...

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The Cyclopedia of Biblical, Theological, and Ecclesiastical Literature: A Fantastic Research Tool for Broad Christian Study The Cyclopedia of Biblical, Theological, and Ecclesiastical Literature is a ten-volume reference work that was published in the late 19th century. It was edited by John McClint...

1 John 5:7-8 reads differently in the King James Version than in other translations because Erasmus lost a bet. If you compare this verse in the King James Version, you will find a Trinitarian formula (“the Father, the Word, and the Holy Spirit, and these three are one” ) that does not appear in mos...

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Arzareth is a legendary land that is mentioned in the Book of 2 Esdras, an apocryphal text that was written in the 1st century CE. According to the book, Arzareth is a distant land where the Ten Lost Tribes of Israel were exiled after the Assyrian conquest of the Kingdom of Israel in the 8th century...

There are four purposes for this translation: To restore the Name of the Almighty to its rightful place in the text;To be recognizably Messianic in that it affirms the Hebraic roots of the Messianic belief;To restore the meaning to so many words which have become popular to use, but do not accurate...

On a late afternoon, around the year 32 A.D., two men were walking from Jerusalem to the nearby village of Emmaus. Their conversation centered on notable events that had occurred the previous week. As they journeyed, they were joined by a stranger who seemed ignorant of these events. Surprised, they...

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You decide to buy yourself or someone else a Bible, so you run down to the nearest bookstore—but they have so many different translations, you don’t know where to begin. Here is something that might help: a list of modern translations that you are likely to find in a bookstore, with a description of...