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• Egypt
  ...Hyksos rather than the previous native Egyptian kings; for in the papyrus d'Orbiney in the British Museum, of the age of Rameses II of a native dynasty ...tary first to Rome, and afterward to Constantinople. It was transferred, A.D. 641, to the dominion of the Saracens. In 1250 the [[Mamelukes]] deposed th
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• Jerusalem
  ...John son of [[Levi]] escaped to Jerusalem, and in two years and a half (A.D. 70) Titus began the siege, the [[Zealots]] then having overcome the modera ...pp. 144-154; H. Vincent, <i> Jérusalem antique </i> , Paris, 1913ff.-( <i> d </i> ) <i> [[Historical]] works </i> : E. Schürer, <i> History of the Jewi
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• Assyria And Babylonia
  ...xplored, and beyond its existence we know little of it. </p> <p> ( <em> c, d, e </em> ) <em> Kassite supremacy, and rise of Assyria, etc. </em> The thir
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• Captivity
  ...very generation, under Titus and the Romans, 37 years before the event (A.D. 70), and the treading under foot of Jerusalem by all nations "until the ti ...public slaves, or sold into private bondage. Under the emperor Hadrian, a.d. 133, a similar crushing blow fell on the Jews who had again assembled in J
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• Pharaoh
  ...when he fled from Solomon, and gave him his sister-in-law to wife (about A.D. 984). &nbsp; 1 Kings 11:14-22 . </p> <p> The title 'Pharaoh' is judged by ...nd supposes that he was the son of Psammetichus by another wife (see Hist. d'Egypte, page 252; comp. 248). If he married Nitocris, he may have been call
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• Apocrypha
  ...ck out these ideas and made the inferences without any antecedent example. Dähne considers the passage to be allegorical, because the notion of ‘an e ...It is attributed to at least two different dates, the 2nd and 3rd cents. a.d. The character of the matter shows that some Christian interpolated the ori
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• Israel
  ...thaim, king of Mesopotamia, is the work of the editor, R [Note: Redactor.] D [Note: Deuteronomist.] , and also by the fact that no king of [[Mesopotamia ...21:24). At its close Israel's times begin. The 1,260 years may date from A.D. 754, when [[Pepin]] granted temporal dominion to the popes; this would bri
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• Jesus Christ
  ...&nbsp;2 Timothy 3 years), and the date of the [[Crucifixion]] (Passover, a.d. 29). His periods are: (1) the preparation, corresponding to Dr. Sanday’s ...esus arrived in Jerusalem on the Sunday before Passover (March-April) of a.d. 30, entering the city to the acclaim of the people and in triumphal glory.
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• Exile
  ...ms the desolation of the Temple to be exclusively referred to ''(Flandbuch D. Chronol.'' 1:530). Gramberg ''(Religionsid.'' 2:388 sq.) and Hitzig ''(Jer
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• Babylon
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• Obadiah
  ...the workmen, in the restoration of the Temple. &nbsp;2 Chronicles 34:12. (B.C.623). </p> <p> [[Obadiah]] ( ''Ôla-Dî'Ah'' or ''Ŏb'A-Dî'Ah'' ), ''Servant Of Jehovah.'' The name of 13 persons in Scripture. The
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• Book Of Isaiah
  ...ginning of the 2nd cent. b.c. (see above) to the close of the 18th cent. a.d., these chapters were regarded as the work of Isaiah. Since the close of th
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• Herod
  ...ed with Berenice to Rome, where he died in the third year of [[Trajan]] (A.D. 100). </p> <p> He was the last of the race of Herod commemorated in histor ...y of the Bible (5 vols) </i> and <i> Encyclopaedia Biblica </i> . </p> <p> D. Frew. </p>
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• Paedagogics
  ...l. Methodologie, u. Literatur d. Padagogik (Leips. 1861); Schmidt, Encykl. d. gesammt. Erziehunsqswesens, etc. (Gotha, 1859, etc., 5 vols. 8vo). </p>
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• Nehemiah
  ...s purity in marriage and in ministers (&nbsp;Nehemiah 13:23-31 ). </p> <p> D. C. Martin </p> ...(Apokr. Page 255 sq.), and is rightly estimated by [[Hengstenberg]] (Auth. d. Dan. page 241 sq.). (See Books Of Esdras). </p> <p> It should be added tha
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• Writing
  ...Law were thought to be less accurate than copyists of the Koran. </p> <p> D. S. Margoliouth. </p> ...The documents from the [[Qumran]] and Wadi Murabba'at areas (200 B.C. to A.D. 150) complete the data. These source materials make it possible to trace t
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• Cyrenius
  ...during Quirinus' governorship of Syria in 6 B.C., for Caius Caesar died A.D. 4, and the nearness of Syria to Armenia was probably a reason for choosing ...was the legate handling civil matters. Quirinius served a second term in A.D. 6-9. </p> <p> This solution affirms Lukan accuracy without overlooking oth
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• Canon Of The Old Testament
  ...Instruction which is in righteousness’ (&nbsp; 2 Timothy 3:16 ). </p> <p> D. M. Kay. </p> ...7:38; &nbsp;James 4:5-6; &nbsp;2 Timothy 3:8. [[Melito]] of [[Sardis]] (A.D. 179), after an exact inquiry in the East gives the Old Testament books sub
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• Darius
  ...Easton's Bible Dictionary. https://www.studylight.org/dictionaries/eng/ebd/d/darius.html. 1897. </p> </div> </li> ...Cyaxaris," which has been quoted from an inscription (Auberlen, Daniel u. d. Ofenbarung, p. 18), is either a false reading or certainly a false transla
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• Greek Philosophy
  ...ition of Eusebii Praep. Evang.; Dahne, 2:73; Vacherot, Histoire de l'Ecole d'Alexandrie, 1:140.) Philo's system may be described as the result of a cont
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• Artaxerxes
  ...n B.C. 446. See the Meth. Quart. Review, July, 1850, p. 495. Others (as J. D. Michaelis) understand Artaxerxes Memon (reigned B.C. 404-359) to be meant
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• Galatia
  ...SSy8JIe6+++7z588//PDDQoiXXnpJYpAPPvigoKCAp5o8eTJ99xb8IoSA5+3mzZu3b98Og+P58+d/+ctfFhQUpKamIu1LL70UGxv7/vvvl5WV2fDOqlWrPvjgg5/+9Kf495133rFvJQJ3+gPAzgjESWT ...., 63. The south-eastern part of the province was somewhat contracted in a.d. 41 by the gift of a slice or Lycaonia, including Laranda, to Antiochus of
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• Babylonia
  ...ere are seen, at the present time, ruin-hills or mounds of accumulation of débris, which mark the site of ancient cities. Some of these cities were des ...see Golius, ''Ad Alfrag.'' p. 17; Rodiger, in the ''Zeitschr. F. D. Kunde D. Morgenl.'' 3, 8), a portion of whom under the Assyrian sway may have migra
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• Nebuchadnezzar
  ...t may have been an obelisk with a bust on the summit of it (Minter, Relig. d. Bab. page 59; Hengstenberg, On Daniel). [[Diodorus]] Siculus (lib. 2) info
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• Rome
  ...ally erected to all the divine protectors of the Julian house, has since a.d. 609 been used mostly as a church. What the Church, the great destroyer of ...the early Christians. The earliest dated inscription in the catacombs is A.D. 71. </p> <p> Nothing is known of the first founder of the Christian Church
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• Cyprus
  ...f Cyprus took part in the great rising of their race which took place in a.d. 117 (when [[Trajan]] was busy with Parthia), and they are said to have mas ...gospel to the Jewish community on the island (&nbsp;Acts 11:19-20 ). In A.D. 46 or 47, Paul undertook his first missionary journey accompanied by Barna
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• Ezekiel
  ...the implementation of the new covenant (&nbsp;Ezekiel 36:22-38 ) </p> <p> D. To revive the hopeless state of the people who felt they had perished (&nb ...This View </p> <p> (c) [[Impossibility]] That Ezekiel Preceded P </p> <p> (d) [[Correct]] Interpretation of Passage </p> <p> (3) Ezekiel's Leviticism </
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• Apocalyptic Literature
  ...eol. </i> 1868, pp. 622–648; Heidenheim, ‘Beitrage z. besser. Verstaodniss d. Ascensio Mosis’ in <i> Vierteljahrschrift f. deutsche u. englische Theol ...aruch, as it now stands, was written in the second half of the 1st cent. a.d., and has come under the influence of [[Christianity]] (see esp. chs. xlix
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• Book Of Ezra
  ...bsp;Matthew 3:8 ) from all who are guilty. (&nbsp;Ezra 10:18-44 ) </p> <p> D. C. Martin </p> ...logna, 1538, fol.); Jaabez, '''''חֶסֶד''''' '''''תּורָת''''' (Belvedere, n.d. fol.); Trapp, [[Commentary]] (London, 1656, fol.); De Oliva, ''Commentarii
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• Shimei
  ...rents of Solomon, at the time of Adonjah's usurpation. &nbsp;1 Kings 1:8. (B.C.1015). </p> <p> 4. Solomon's commissariat officer in Benjamin. &nbsp;1 Kings ...f the [[Merarite]] branch of the Levites (&nbsp;1 Chronicles 6:29 ). ( <i> d </i> ) One of the 288 trained singers in the service of the sanctuary under
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• Isaiah
  ...rship]] and right living are inseparable (&nbsp;Isaiah 58:1-14 ). </p> <p> D. [[Repentance]] brings reconciliation with God (&nbsp;Isaiah 59:1-21 ). </p
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• Hosea
  ...le cannot experience God's unfailing love (&nbsp;Hosea 10:9-15 ). </p> <p> D. God's love for His people will not allow Him to give them up (&nbsp;Hosea ...ndon 1853, 8vo; also Sermons [includ. also Amos], ib. ed. 8vo); Kurtz. Ehe d. H. (Dorpat. 1859, 8vo); Kara, '''''פֵּרוּשׁ''''' (Breslau, 1861, 4
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• Abraham
  ...th </i> ; C. F. Pfeiffer, <i> The Patriarchal Age </i> ; A. R. Millard and D. J. Wiseman, <i> Essays on the Patriarchal Narratives </i> . </p> ...the Biblioth. Brem. 6, 51 sq.; Goetze, De Cultu Abr. (Lips. 1702); Sourie, D. Gott Abr. (Hannov. 1806); Hauck, De Abr. in Charris </p> <p> (Lips. 1776);
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• Book Of Numbers
  ...Practically identical with &nbsp; Deuteronomy 3:1-3; the only passage from D [Note: Deuteronomist.] in the book. ( <em> g </em> ) The introduction of a ...God's plan regarding the land of promise (&nbsp;Numbers 22-24 ); </p> <p> D. They are to keep the land of promise within the tribes and people it was p
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• Archaeology And Biblical Study
  ...complex man is now available through the writings of the first century [[A.D.]] Jewish historian, Josephus, and through the work of archaeologists. Hero
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• Babel
  ...JyioiKBQJCVlbV8+fLo6Ojdu3c7OjquXr2aEGJiYiKVSoVC4datW0EMjMbanMk0LTJv37497WS+d+9egUBQrzKLEGJkZCSVSiECnT9/XiAQ4Izf0NBQKpVi5Ni/fz9OEw0MDN7TJqEc2bmNjU1ycvK6d ...it may be used to show the probable form of the Babel tower. The Birs Nimrûd is one of the most striking ruins on the plain, and is six miles southwest
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• Augustus
  ...atriœ </i> ; a.d. 3, imperial powers renewed for ten years, and again in a.d. 13. The ‘deification’ took place on 17 Sept., 14. </p> <p> <b> 4. Achi ...among his sons. Augustus died in Nola in Campania, Aug. 19, A.U.C. 767, A.D. 14, in his 76th year; but long before his death, he had associated Tiberiu
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• Haggai
  ...e exiles who returned with Zerubbabel and Jeshua: and Elwald ''(Die Proph. D. Ait. B.)'' is even tempted to infer from &nbsp;Haggai 2:3, that he may hav
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• David
  ...amuel, </i> 3 vols.; K. R. R. Gros Louis, <i> Semeia </i> 8 (1977): 15-33; D. M. Gunn, <i> The Story of King David </i> ; J. A. Wharton, <i> Int </i> 35 <p> [[David]] ( ''Dâ'Vid'' ), ''Beloved.'' The great king of Israel. He was the eighth and you
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• Antioch
  ...tion was in especially active progress during the reign of [[Claudius]] (a.d. 41-54), in which St. Paul visited Antioch. The city was not yet ‘Antioch ...s. Earthquakes have added to the ruining hand of man. Those of b.c. 184, a.d. 37, 115, 457, and esp. 526 (when 200,000 persons perished), 528, 1170, and
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• Palestine
  ...JmZ6ezsvHjxYsi6w5K435OAPZL1I2q1GqglkydP5nA4lZWVt2/fbmpqamhocHFxCQ4OxoKIXC4/d+7c3bt3YaiTSKRLly4tWbIElMqwE7JYrKFDh+bm5p48ebKjowNGaUtLS1ZW1htvvJGQkPD06dOdO ...eus]] rising from the sea; </p> <p> Or hear old [[Triton]] blow his wreathéd horn.’ </p> <p> Wordsworth, <i> Miscellaneous Sonnets </i> . </p> <p> The
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• Syria
  ..., the scene of fierce contests, and was finally subjugated by the Turks, A.D. 1517, under whose rule it still remains. - Editor). </p> ...us. [[Lysanias]] was over it when John began baptizing (&nbsp;Luke 3:1), A.D. 26. Pompey left the principality of Damascus in the hands of Aretas, an Ar
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• Daniel
  ...Easton's Bible Dictionary. https://www.studylight.org/dictionaries/eng/ebd/d/daniel.html. 1897. </p> </div> </li> <p> [[Daniel]] ( ''Dăn'I-El,'' or ''Dăn'Yel'' ), ''Judgment Of God.'' 1. A son of David by Abigail the Carmelite
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• Money
  ...ch was confined to the two periods of revolt against the Roman power, in a.d. 66 70 and 132 135, in addition to what has been said above (§ <strong> ...of the City Coinage of Palestine from the 2Century B.C. to the 3Century A.D. </i> ; S. E. Loewenstamm, <i> JBL </i> 88 (1968): 78-80. </p>
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• Book Of Daniel
  ...to Messiah and to desolation of Jerusalem (&nbsp;Daniel 9:1-27 ). </p> <p> D. A heaven-sent vision shows that [[Scripture]] points to battles between no ...because it was more familiar than Heb. to himself and his readers. ( <em> d </em> ) The likeliest suggestion is that the entire book was Aramaic, but w
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• Malachi
  ...ther Jewish commentaries, tr. into Latin by Hebenstreet (Lips. 1746, 4to); D. Kimchi's and Aben-Ezra's commentaries, in Latin by Bohle (Rost. 1637, 4to)
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• Nahum
  ...When God declares war, the enemy is helpless (&nbsp;Nahum 2:13 ). </p> <p> D. God humiliates wicked peoples (&nbsp;Nahum 3:1-19 ). </p> <p> Scott Langst
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• Samaria
  ..., Historical Geography of the Holy Land (G. A. Smith)7, 1900, pp. 345-350; D. G. Lyon, ‘Hebrew [[Ostraca]] from Samaria,’ in Harvard Theological Rev ...us Sebastenus" at the council of Nice, A.D. 325. The Mahometans took it, A.D. 614. The Crusaders established a Latin bishop there. </p> <p> Now ''Sebust
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• Alexander The Great
  ...laced by Josephus is alike inconsistent with Jewish history (Ewald, Gesch. d. Volkes Isr. 4, 124 sq.) and with the narrative of Arrian (2, 1). (See [[Ja
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• Septuagint
  ...parallels in Greek writings (including LXX Septuagint) from b.c. 322 to a.d. 100. </p> <p> For our present purpose, however, a supreme interest attache ...rced" gives the true reading instead of "as a lion," [[Aquila]] a Jew ''(A.D. 133)'' so translated "they disfigured"; (&nbsp;Psalms 16:10) "Thy [[Holy]]
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