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Thursday, January 31, 2013
Friday, October 12, 2012
Where is Samaria?
The region of Samaria is mentioned repeatedly in the New
Testament, but exactly where is Samaria?
The answer is that ancient Samaria corresponds approximately to the
northern half of the modern West Bank.
The Hebrew name is Somron or Shomron.
32.1431 N, 35.2606 E
The name of Samaria is derived from Shemer. Shemer was either an individual, a
family, or a tribe from whom King Omri purchased the area about 884 BC. Omri, the King of Israel, built
his capital city here in this wine and oil production area.
The Samaritans are still an identifiable Abrahamic people
who claim to practice the original Abrahamic religion. They insist that Judaism is a later
innovation.
The Samaritans built their temple on Mount Gerizim in the Fifth
Century BC/BCE. The Maccabean
leader John Hyrcanus destroyed the Samaritan temple in 110 BC/BCE.
Thursday, December 1, 2011
Religious Humor Is Not Necessarily Blasphemous
Both of these videos mention Jesus turning water into wine at the wedding banquet at Cana (John 2:2-11). Both are funny, but one is blasphemous and one is not.
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Blasphemous: Rowan Atkinson, best known as Mr. Bean.
Not blasphemous: the Christian comedian, Michael Jr.
Go back and listen to Michael Jr. again, "... so he took some dirty water and made it clean and acceptable and it was the best at the banquet. which is exactly what he does for us ..."
Sunday, November 20, 2011
Extra-Biblical Evidences of Biblical Persons and/or Events: Nehemiah's Wall
Since no archeological evidence had ever been found to corroborate it, archeologists over the years have tended to discount the historicity of the book of Nehemiah and its account of the repairs on the damaged wall of Jerusalem. That is, until 8 November 2007, when archeologist Eilat Mazar (b. 1956, Israel) announced that she had found it. Her discovery is now fully recognized as the correct interpretation. The wall fits the biblical description of the area and the site was dated by pottery found at the wall. Pottery? Yes, it would have been used to carry drinking water for the workers and possibly food. When a pot broke, the pieces were left where they fell. Pottery styles are different for different cultures and are often used in dating archeological sites.
"And it came to pass in the month Nisan, in the twentieth year of Artaxerxes the king, that wine was before him: and I took up the wine, and gave it unto the king. Now I had not been beforetime sad in his presence. Wherefore the king said unto me, Why is thy countenance sad, seeing thou art not sick? this is nothing else but sorrow of heart. Then I was very sore afraid, And said unto the king, Let the king live for ever: why should not my countenance be sad, when the city, the place of my fathers' sepulchres, lieth waste, and the gates thereof are consumed with fire? Then the king said unto me, For what dost thou make request? So I prayed to the God of heaven. And I said unto the king, If it please the king, and if thy servant have found favour in thy sight, that thou wouldest send me unto Judah, unto the city of my fathers' sepulchres, that I may build it." Nehemiah 2:1-5.
Artaxerxes gave Nehemiah letters of recommendation and building supplies, and appointed him as governor of Jerusalem.
נְחֶמְיָה
Nehemiah, the son of Hacaliah (Nehemiah 1:1) was a captive/slave of the Persian King Artaxerxes I (d. 424 BC/BCE). He served as the king's "cupbearer" and was sent by the king to be the governor of Jerusalem in 445 BC/BCE. Why would the king of Persia choose a minor, non-Persian slave to be his representative in a faraway country? Because Nehemiah asked him to.
Think about this. It was punishable by death to speak to, or even to approach, the king unless one was summoned. This is shown in the book of Esther, where the beautiful Jewish girl Hadassah was afraid to approach King Ahasuerus of Persia (aka. Xerxes I the Great; Khshayarsha, ruled 486-465 BC/BCE). She was afraid to speak to him even though she had been chosen as his new queen; she was his wife.
"All the king's servants, and the people of the king's provinces, do know, that whosoever, whether man or woman, shall come unto the king into the inner court, who is not called, there is one law of his to put him to death, except such to whom the king shall hold out the golden sceptre, that he may live: but I have not been called to come in unto the king these thirty days." Esther 4:11
No wonder that Nehemiah said, "Then I was very sore afraid," Of course, he was afraid. He was just a minor house servant, but he had to be a very well trusted servant. He was in a position where he could have poisoned the king's wine, and, in order to hand the king his cup of wine, Nehemiah would have been close enough to the king to successfully lunge at him with a concealed knife or with his bare hands.
Artaxerxes obviously trusted Nehemiah; it seems that he may have even liked Nehemiah.
"All the king's servants, and the people of the king's provinces, do know, that whosoever, whether man or woman, shall come unto the king into the inner court, who is not called, there is one law of his to put him to death, except such to whom the king shall hold out the golden sceptre, that he may live: but I have not been called to come in unto the king these thirty days." Esther 4:11
No wonder that Nehemiah said, "Then I was very sore afraid," Of course, he was afraid. He was just a minor house servant, but he had to be a very well trusted servant. He was in a position where he could have poisoned the king's wine, and, in order to hand the king his cup of wine, Nehemiah would have been close enough to the king to successfully lunge at him with a concealed knife or with his bare hands.
Artaxerxes obviously trusted Nehemiah; it seems that he may have even liked Nehemiah.
"And it came to pass in the month Nisan, in the twentieth year of Artaxerxes the king, that wine was before him: and I took up the wine, and gave it unto the king. Now I had not been beforetime sad in his presence. Wherefore the king said unto me, Why is thy countenance sad, seeing thou art not sick? this is nothing else but sorrow of heart. Then I was very sore afraid, And said unto the king, Let the king live for ever: why should not my countenance be sad, when the city, the place of my fathers' sepulchres, lieth waste, and the gates thereof are consumed with fire? Then the king said unto me, For what dost thou make request? So I prayed to the God of heaven. And I said unto the king, If it please the king, and if thy servant have found favour in thy sight, that thou wouldest send me unto Judah, unto the city of my fathers' sepulchres, that I may build it." Nehemiah 2:1-5.
Artaxerxes gave Nehemiah letters of recommendation and building supplies, and appointed him as governor of Jerusalem.
Links for more information on Nehemiah’s wall:
Monday, September 26, 2011
Bible Printer's Errors: The Vinegar Bible
John Baskett (d. 1742) was the printer for King George III of England and fot the University of Oxford from 1711 - 1742 and produced ornate leather-bound and gold-trimmed editions. He is best remembered, however, for one of his magnificent failures, what is known as the Vinegar Bible (1717).
The Vinegar Bible is full of typographical errors but the most glaring problem occurs in the page heading for the twentieth chapter of the book of Luke at the passage containing The Parable of the Vineyard (Luke 20:9), which instead is printed as The Parable of the Vinegar.
In a wordplay on the printer's name, the book was derisively labelled a "Baskett-ful of errors."
http://www.stenodoc.org.uk/st_minver/index.org
St. Minver Church, named for St. Menefreda, at St. Minver in Cornwall, has three copies of the Vinegar Bible. The church is on the site of a wooden church from late Saxon times.
The Vinegar Bible is full of typographical errors but the most glaring problem occurs in the page heading for the twentieth chapter of the book of Luke at the passage containing The Parable of the Vineyard (Luke 20:9), which instead is printed as The Parable of the Vinegar.
In a wordplay on the printer's name, the book was derisively labelled a "Baskett-ful of errors."
http://www.stenodoc.org.uk/st_minver/index.org
St. Minver Church, named for St. Menefreda, at St. Minver in Cornwall, has three copies of the Vinegar Bible. The church is on the site of a wooden church from late Saxon times.
Friday, April 23, 2010
The Bread of Life
"One of the very nicest things about life is the way we must regularly stop whatever it is we are doing and devote our attention to eating." Luciano Pavarotti
Luciano Pavarotti (1935-2007) is considered to have been one of the greatesy operatic tenors of all time,with a strong booming voice which never missed a note. He was a large man who loved life, women, and food, a lot. His meals, especially, were legendary.
Gluttony is considered one of the great sins, but enjoyment of food is not gluttony. The idea of the sin of gluttony is eating (or any other activity) taken to an excessive level, especially when the activity is at the expense of others. It reduces back to The Great Sin; the deification of self.
The enjoyment of food, the study of food, and the appreciation of cooking as an art form are all acceptable to God as long as we remember that our real food comes from study of the Word of God, communion with His people, and the indwelling of His Holy Spirit.
"Go thy way, eat thy bread with joy, and drink thy wine with a merry heart; for God now accepteth thy works." Ecclesiastes 9:7
"Jesus saith unto them, My meat is to do the will of him that sent me, and to finish his work." John 4:34
"And Jesus said unto them, I am the bread of life: he that cometh to me shall never hunger; and he that believeth on me shall never thirst." John 6:35
"I am the living bread which came down from heaven: if any man eat of this bread, he shall live for ever: and the bread that I will give is my flesh, which I will give for the life of the world." John 6:51
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