ESDRAS, THE FIRST BOOK OF ez'-dras, es'-dras: \Contents 1. Name 2. Contents 3. Relation to Chronicles, Ezra, Nehemiah 4. Versions 5. Date and Authors...
\\INTRODUCTION TO 1 CHRONICLES\\ This and the following book were reckoned by the Jews as one book, as appears by the Masoretic note at the end of t...
\\INTRODUCTION TO GENESIS\\ This book, in the Hebrew copies of the Bible, and by the Jewish writers, is generally called Bereshith, which signifies ...
Ezra, Theology of The Sovereignty and the Works of God. God is the God of heaven and earth ( 5:11 ). He raises up kings and grants to them their autho...
Numbers 6:2 Speak unto the children of Israel, and say unto them Whom the following law only concerned, and not Gentiles; so runs the Jewish canon, ...
BIBLE, THE, I-III INTRODUCTION bi'-b'-l, (biblia): $ I. THE NAMES$ 1. Bible 2. Other Designations--Scriptures, etc. 3. Old Testament and New Testa...
TEMPLE, A2 II. EZEKIEL'S PROPHETIC SKETCH I. Introductory. 1. Relation to History of Temple: Wellhausen has said that Ezekiel 40-48 are the most im...
REVELATION OF JOHN I. TITLE AND GENERAL CHARACTER OF BOOK 1. Title 2. Uniqueness and Reality of Visions II. CANONICITY AND AUTHORSHIP 1. Patristic...
TEXT OF THE OLD TESTAMENT || I. EARLIEST FORM OF WRITING IN ISRAEL 1. Invention of Alphabet 2. The Cuneiform 3. References to Writing in the Old T...
Zechariah, Theology of Introduction. Authorship. The book of Zechariah falls naturally into two parts: chapters 1-8 and 9-14. In the first part we fin...
\\INTRODUCTION TO FIRST KINGS\\ This, and the following book, properly are but one book, divided into two parts, and went with the Jews under the co...
EZRA-NEHEMIAH \Contents 1. Name. 2. Object 3. Plan 4. Unity 5. Sources 6. Literary Character 7. Languages 8. Historicity 9. Text \LITERATURE 1. Nam...
GENEALOGY, 1-7 je-na-al'-o-ji, jen-a-al'-o-ji: 1. Definition 2. Biblical References 3. Importance of Genealogies 4. Their Historical Value 5. Pri...
DARIUS da-ri'-us: The name of three or four kings mentioned in the Old Testament. In the original Persian it is spelled Darayavaush; in Babylonian, u...
Grace [T] [E]The word grace in biblical parlance can, like forgiveness, repentance, regeneration, and salvation, mean something as broad as describing...
Haggai, Theology of The prophets Haggai and Zechariah joined forces in 520 b.c. to encourage the rebuilding of the temple following the Babylonian exi...
CHRONICLES, BOOKS OF kron'-i-k'-ls (dibhere ha-yamim), The Words of the Days; Septuagint paraleipomenon: $ 1. The Name$ $ 2. The Position of Chronic...
LOGOS log'-os (logos): I. GREEK SPECULATION 1. Heraclitus 2. Anaxagoras 3. Plato 4. Aristotle 5. Stoics II. HEBREW ANTICIPATION OF DOCTRINE 1....
Government [N]Administration of life in an organized society as well as the body of officials that presides over the process. Human beings discovered ...
CAPTIVITY kap-tiv'-i-ti (galah, galuth, shebhuth, shibhyah; metoikesia): $ I. OF THE NORTHERN KINGDOM (THE WORK OF ASSYRIA)$ 1. Western Campaigns of...