The day preceding the Sabbath (Mk. 15:42) which endedat 6:00 p. m. on Friday evening. The Jewish Sabbath required careful ad-vance planning. Food was prepared for the next day and all business affairshad to be concluded so that the Sabbath could be observ...[继续阅读]

    The nephew of Abraham (son of Abrahams brother Haran). Lot trav-elled with Abraham from Ur of the Chaldees toward Canaan (Gen. 12:1-9).A quarrel broke out between the servants of Lot and the servants of Abrahamover grazing rights for their flocks. Abraham...[继续阅读]

    One of the twelve apostles (John 11 :16,Lk. 6:15). Thomas is giv-en little attention in the synoptic gospels,but has a much more prominentstatus in Johns gospel. His personality was complex,having a mixture of loy-alty and faith mixed with sarcasm and pes...[继续阅读]

    The reality of hunger was always present for much of the Biblicalworld. Famine was a common fact of life. It played a major role in the foodcycle in Egypt which brought Joseph to power as the " Minister ofAgriculture" because of his brilliant scheme to st...[继续阅读]

    The third son of Adam and Eve (Gen. 4:25). His birth stands in con-trast to the violent line of Gain. When Seth was born,the Hebrew text saysthat people began to call upon the name of God (Gen. 4:26)....[继续阅读]

    A religious ceremony found in both OT & NT whichsymbolizes the transfer of property or status from one person or object to an-other. As part of the sacrificial ritual (Lev. 16: 21) it symbolized the trans-ference of guilt from the person to the animal...[继续阅读]

    A prophetess in the temple who witnessed the dedication of the infantJesus. (Lk. 2∶38)...[继续阅读]

    People of the land of Ammon,a state East of the Jordan river,along the Syrian desert,they were constant enemies of Israel,a source ofspiritual corruption even though they had some indistinct connections with Is-rael through Lot,a nephew of Abraham. (Gen.1...[继续阅读]

    Mother of Moses (Ex. 6:20). She was a courageous,creativewomen who took action to save her son from the Pharaohs decree that allmale children were to be killed. She hid him for several months,then careful-ly placed him in a basket where he was found and a...[继续阅读]

    The birthplace of Paul,and the capital of the Roman province ofCilicia (Acts 9:11). Tarsus was a large,prosperous city located about tenmiles from the Mediterranean Sea on a river which made Tarsus an importantshipping center. Mark Antony gave Tarsus the ...[继续阅读]