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NameIn the Hebrew Bible the book of Exodus is named after the first words in the book, we’elleh shemot, meaning 'these are the names'. The English title 'Exodus' comes to us via Latin and is an a ...
For the modern reader Leviticus is a leading contender for the most baffling book in the Bible. Full of arcane rituals, limited explanation, countless repetition, and puzzling laws it is hard to ...
NameThe English title, Numbers, comes from the Greek and Latin versions of the Old Testament: the Greek translation (Septuagint) has Arithmoi (‘numbers’), which Jerome translated as Numeri in the ...
NameThe English title Deuteronomy comes from the Greek Deuteronomium, which means ‘second law’. This title usefully points to Deuteronomy’s relationship to the rest of the Pentateuch. Deute ...
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"In the seventh century BC the Assyrian monarch was the most powerful human being in the whole Middle East."
Abraham is perhaps the most well-known figure from the Bible apart from Jesus of Nazareth. Judaism, Christianity, and Islam all consider Abraham the patriarch of their faith, albeit in rather ...
Ruth is the only book of the Bible named after a foreign woman. It is interesting and unusual due to its domestic setting, its female lead characters, and its treatment of foreigners.In Hebrew Bibles, ...
This page is a stub.According to Gen 5, Enoch is the seventh descendant of Adam and great-grandfather of Noah. Enoch is different from his ancestors and descendants because he is described as having ...