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• Persia
  ...ehemiah 2:9-10;  Esther 8:9-14). The Persian government even gave the Jews funds to help carry out their program for the reconstruction of their natio ...and Nehemiah ( Nehemiah 2:1-9) in their patriotic restoration of the Jews' national polity and walls. (See [[Daniel]] ; [[Cyrus; Medes; Parthia; Ahas
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• Books Of Maccabees
  ...part. But this book tells of sufferings and triumphs on the part of loyal Jews comparable to those of the Maccabean period. Perhaps the term Maccabees was
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• Genealogy
  ...ts main impetus in the time of Ezra. It was then that the line between the Jews and other nations became sharply drawn, and stress was laid on purity of de ...up to David. The present impossibility of verifying the genealogies of the Jews' tribes and families is a divine indication that Christ the antitypical Hig
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• Old Testament
  ...ogue, have gotten into Christian hands. The Spanish writing is rounder and modern, the German and [[Polish]] writing is more angular, designated the '''''Tam ...is a revelation of the same grace as is made manifest in Christ. Only the Jews have obscured its true character by the fatal emphasis they have placed on
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• Pentateuch
  ...and non-legislative parts, but the legal enactments of the Pentateuch (the Jews reckoned 613, see above). </p> <p> In Egypt the hieroglyphics are generally ...radition was carried on by Jews and Christians until after A.D. 1600. Some Jews and Christians raised occasional questions about the Mosaic authorship of t
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• Gentiles
  ...ght years after Peter’s vision that some unknown Cypriote and [[Cyrenian]] Jews of the [[Dispersion]] took the momentous step of ‘preaching the Lord Jesu ...(&nbsp;Romans 4:17 ). </p> <p> Paul experienced great resentment among the Jews because of the opportunity he was offering the Gentiles (&nbsp;Romans 2:15-
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• The Essenes
  ...ope. But from neither of these writers could be discovered that any of the Jews cherished this hope. Yet from the New Testament we know that this hope was
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• Epistle To The. Romans
  ...pp. 1), and Aquinas (in Opp. 6). (See [[Commentary]]). </p> <p> '''2.''' ''Modern'' exegetical helps (from the [[Reformation]] to the present time) on the en
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• Time
  ...he day at sunset. Since that custom prevails to the present time among the Jews it is not likely that it was ever superseded among them. Nevertheless, the ...istinguished from the three watches which seem to have prevailed among the Jews (‘if he shall come in the second watch, and if in the third,’ &nbsp; Lu
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• Sadducees
  ...fficulties are obvious, a chief one being that we cannot argue safely from modern Persian to an ante-Christian usage. Besides, if we are to admit that the Za ...he fall of [[Jerusalem]] the Sadducees doctrine disappeared, the afflicted Jews instinctively turning for consolation from the sad present to the bright ho
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• Talmud
  ...efer to Christians; others maintain that by these are meant philosophizing Jews, who were regarded as heretics. This is not the place to discuss the questi ...ian Talmud. </p> <p> The importance of the Talmud to Jewish life until the modern period can hardly be overestimated. Talmud and commentary upon it become a
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• Games
  ...8, i. 301). </p> <p> According to the Talmud, the religions leaders of the Jews were only slightly less rigid, although they could not altogether prevent a ...phus]] ( <em> Ant. </em> XV. viii. 1) to have provoked a conspiracy of the Jews by building a theatre and an amphitheatre at Jerusalem for the spectacular
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• Book Of Judith
  ...he events recorded in Judith are incorporated in the hymnal service of the Jews called '''''יוצרות''''' , yet the book itself was, never in the Jewis ...likely) an [[Aramaic]] original once existed is the opinion of almost all modern scholars, and the evidence for this seems conclusive. There are many Hebrai
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• Leprosy
  ...cleansed. </p> <p> Literature.—This is enormous. Here only a selection of modern articles in English is given, which will furnish all necessary information ...fty and one hundred lepers in the United States at present. </p> <p> '''Is modern leprosy contagious?''' - Dr. H.S. Piffard of New York, in the Medical Recor
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• Epistle Of Barnabas
  ...this as referring to the material Temple at Jerusalem, which they say the Jews expected Hadrian to rebuild. Hence they place this Epistle <i> c. </i> [Not ...rd meaning of that ancient faith was really Christian; of its exclusion of Jews, as such, from all part in God's covenant; and of its dwelling precisely up
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• Exile
  ...urn to their homeland. Though conditions in the homeland were dismal, many Jews did return. The preaching of Haggai and Zechariah (520-519 B.C.) urged thes ...stioned that many belonging to the kingdom of Israel ultimately joined the Jews under Ezra, Zerubbabel, and Nehemiah, and returned along with them to Jerus
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• Epistle Of James
  ...described in the early chapters of the Acts, when the separation between [[Jews]] and [[Christians]] was not complete; we have already, on other grounds, s ...f the race. It will always be a subject of the deepest interest and study. Modern research has penetrated every contributory realm for any added light upon t
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• Epistle To The Romans
  ...ity to save his life from destruction. The problem of the rejection of the Jews is really raised, not so much by their previous privileges as by God’s pr ...he way for the resumption of God's ways with Israel, and both Gentiles and Jews would manifestly come in on the ground of mercy. Thus God would be everythi
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• Expiation
  ...iah 53:6 . Farther, the goat's "bearing upon him all the iniquities of the Jews into a land not inhabited," &nbsp;Leviticus 16:22 , represents the effect o ...cancelled. It supposes penitence and faith on the sinner's part. Among the Jews, expiation was effected by a divinely appointed and typical system of sacri
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• Cyrus
  ...was, we learn from the preamble of his famous proclamation, permitting the Jews to return from the Babylonian captivity: ‘The Lord, the God of heaven, ha ...f heaven" (&nbsp;Ezra 1:2), whom he identifies with the [[Jehovah]] of the Jews, and his pious ascription of his wide dominion to His gift, accord with his
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