The Wiley Blackwell Companion to Ancient Israel
The Wiley Blackwell Companion to Ancient Israel

Author: Susan Niditch

Publisher: John Wiley & Sons

Published: 2016-01-26

Total Pages: 580

ISBN-13: 0470656778

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The Companion to Ancient Israel offers an innovative overview of ancient Israelite culture and history, richly informed by a variety of approaches and fields. Distinguished scholars provide original contributions that explore the tradition in all its complexity, multiplicity and diversity. A methodologically sophisticated overview of ancient Israelite culture that provides insights into political and social history, culture, and methodology Explores what we can say about the cultures and history of the people of Israel and Judah, but also investigates how we know what we know Presents fresh insights, richly informed by a variety of approaches and fields Delves into ‘religion as lived,’ an approach that asks about the everyday lives of ordinary people and the material cultures that they construct and experience Each essay is an original contribution to the subject

Divided Kingdom
Divided Kingdom

Author: Rupert Thomson

Publisher: A&C Black

Published: 2012-08-30

Total Pages: 418

ISBN-13: 1408833131

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It is winter, somewhere in the United Kingdom, and an eight-year-old boy is removed from his home and family in the middle of the night. He learns that he is the victim of an extraordinary experiment. In an attempt to reform society, the government has divided the population into four groups, each representing a different personality type. The land, too, has been divided into quarters. Borders have been established, reinforced by concrete walls, armed guards and rolls of razor wire. Plunged headlong into this brave new world, the boy tries to make the best of things, unaware that ahead of him lies a truly explosive moment, a revelation that will challenge everything he believes in and will, in the end, put his very life in jeopardy ...

The Sibylline Oracles
The Sibylline Oracles

Author: Milton S. Terry

Publisher: Jazzybee Verlag

Published: 2012

Total Pages: 389

ISBN-13: 3849621782

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This is the extended and annotated edition including * an extensive annotation of almost 10.000 words about the oracles in religion * an interactive table-of-contents * perfect formatting for electronic reading devices THE Sibyls occupy a conspicuous place in the traditions and history of ancient Greece and Rome. Their fame was spread abroad long before the beginning of the Christian era. Heraclitus of Ephesus, five centuries before Christ, compared himself to the Sibyl "who, speaking with inspired mouth, without a smile, without ornament, and without perfume, penetrates through centuries by the power of the gods." The ancient traditions vary in reporting the number and the names of these weird prophetesses, and much of what has been handed down to us is legendary. But whatever opinion one may hold respecting the various legends, there can be little doubt that a collection of Sibylline Oracles was at one time preserved at Rome. There are, moreover, various oracles, purporting to have been written by ancient Sibyls, found in the writings of Pausanias, Plutarch, Livy, and in other Greek and Latin authors. Whether any of these citations formed a portion of the Sibylline books once kept in Rome we cannot now determine; but the Roman capitol was destroyed by fire in the time of Sulla (B. C. 84), and again in the time of Vespasian (A. D. 69), and whatever books were at those dates kept therein doubtless perished in the flames. It is said by some of the ancients that a subsequent collection of oracles was made, but, if so, there is now no certainty that any fragments of them remain.

The Divided Kingdom of Israel and Judah C. 975--536 BC
The Divided Kingdom of Israel and Judah C. 975--536 BC

Author: Betty Banaszak

Publisher: Createspace Independent Pub

Published: 2012-12-24

Total Pages: 478

ISBN-13: 9781481113748

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The period of Biblical history known as the Divided Kingdom or the period of the Kings and the Prophets refers to the time when the nation of Israel broke into two rival kingdoms—Israel in the north and Judah in the south—each governed by its own succession of kings. During this period of monarchical rule, God sent many prophets with the purpose of keeping the government of His covenant people in line with His commandments and righteous laws. Besides the prophets which were anointed to address particular situations, there was an unbroken line of written prophets from Joel (chronologically) to Daniel who were sent to deliver words of judgment, warning, instruction and hope for the future. In order to appreciate the intricate fabric of this complex period one has to weave together three books of history—I and II Kings and II Chronicles—and all the prophets from Isaiah to Zephaniah. Kingship ended under Nebuchadnezzar's Babylonian dominion when the last king of Judah was taken captive to Babylon. The entire nation's captivity officially ended in 536 BC when Cyrus, the first Persian emperor, released the captives to return to their homelands and rebuild what Babylon had destroyed. As we study the accounts of Biblical and secular history we discover the magnitude of the hand of God operating throughout the heathen world and, more intimately, in the midst of Israel's many trials and aberrations. Our faith is strengthened as we recognize that it is the hand of the same God who controls our current world affairs in the global events of these days. The intent of this book is to guide the student as well as the most dedicated pastors and teachers through this dynamic period in simplicity and historical accuracy, and in so doing, reinforce our faith as we face the mounting turbulence in our own generation.

Studies in the Chronology of the Divided Monarchy of Israel
Studies in the Chronology of the Divided Monarchy of Israel

Author: William Hamilton Barnes

Publisher: BRILL

Published: 2018-07-17

Total Pages: 200

ISBN-13: 9004369570

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Preliminary Material -- Introduction -- The Tyrian King List: An External Synchronism from Phoenicia -- The Chronological Evidence from Egypt: A. Dating the Invasion of Shishak -- The Chronological Evidence from Egypt: B. Dating 'Tirhakah King of Ethiopia ' -- A Critique of Shea's Recent Defense of the two Campaign Theory -- The Identity of 'So, King of Egypt ' -- The Judahite King List Hypothesis -- A Chronology for the United and Divided Monarchy of Israel -- Bibliography -- Reference Index -- Author Index.

Divided Kingdom
Divided Kingdom

Author: Pat Thane

Publisher: Cambridge University Press

Published: 2018-08-02

Total Pages: 505

ISBN-13: 1107040914

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A clear, comprehensive survey of British history from 1900 to the present, integrating political, economic, social and cultural history.

The Reconstructed Chronology of the Divided Kingdom
The Reconstructed Chronology of the Divided Kingdom

Author: M. Christine Tetley

Publisher: Eisenbrauns

Published: 2005

Total Pages: 210

ISBN-13: 1575060728

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The common response to any attempt to read the chronological notations associated with the kings of Israel and Judah in the time of the divided monarchy is, perhaps, a shrug of the shoulders, or a statement to the effect that the problem is insoluble. Not only are the apparently contradictory--or confusing--notations of the MT a consideration, but the evidence of the other major versions seriously complicates any such undertaking. In the twentieth century, Edwin R. Thiele attempted to reconcile and wrangle all of the numbers into a semblance of order, with results that were far from convincing to his readers. Now Christine Tetley has attacked this knottiest of problems with fresh vigor and assayed a new solution. There is no doubt that this book will be controversial; nevertheless, it will be required reading for anyone who wishes to pin archaeological and historical data within the framework of an absolute chronology.

Divided Kingdom
Divided Kingdom

Author: S. J. Connolly

Publisher: OUP Oxford

Published: 2008-08-28

Total Pages: 535

ISBN-13: 0191562432

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For Ireland the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries were an era marked by war, economic transformation, and the making and remaking of identities. By the 1630s the era of wars of conquest seemed firmly in the past. But the British civil wars of the mid-seventeenth century fractured both Protestant and Catholic Ireland along lines defined by different combinations of religious and political allegiance. Later, after 1688, Ireland became the battlefield for what was otherwise Britain's bloodless (and so Glorious) Revolution. The eighteenth century, by contrast, was a period of peace, permitting Ireland to emerge, first as a dynamic actor in the growing Atlantic economy, then as the breadbasket for industrialising Britain. But at the end of the century, against a background of international revolution, new forms of religious and political conflict came together to produce another period of multi-sided conflict. The Act of Union, hastily introduced in the aftermath of civil war, ensured that Ireland entered the nineteenth century still divided, but no longer a kingdom.

The Mysterious Numbers of the Hebrew Kings
The Mysterious Numbers of the Hebrew Kings

Author: Edwin R. Thiele

Publisher: Kregel Academic

Published: 1983

Total Pages: 260

ISBN-13: 9780825496882

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(New revised edition) Considered the classic and comprehensive work in reckoning the accession of kings, calendars, and coregencies based upon the Old Testament text and other extra-biblical sources.