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This page is a stub.In ancient Israel and Judah, a priest was an official who was set apart from the community in order to carry out certain religious duties and who served as intermediary between God ...
This page is a stub.Sinai and Horeb are considered by some scholars to refer to the same place (J and P: Sinai; E and D: Horeb), although others dispute this idea and suggest instead that the two ...
Rahab is a citizen of Jericho who lives by prostitution. Her story is told in Josh 2 and Josh 6. The Israelite spies sent by Joshua to spy out the land come to her house and she agrees to hide them ...
This is a holding page; below is a stub.Rachel was Jacob’s wife, Leah’s younger sister, and Joseph’s and Benjamin’s mother. She died while giving birth to Benjamin (Gen 35:16-20).Jeremiah 31:15 p ...
The traditions from which the biblical texts emerged did not end with the texts themselves but continued, first and foremost in the traditions of Rabbinic Judaism. Below is an outline of the main ...
Jezebel is presented as the most ruthless and evil queen in Israel’s history, who turned the people to the worship of false gods, slaughtered the prophets of YHWH, the god of Israel, and led others t ...
This is a stub.The primeval history refers to the biblical earliest narrative in the first eleven chapters of the book of Genesis, covering from the beginning of creation up to the introduction of ...