Jabal
Jabal , in the Bible, son of Lamech.
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The Bible in first person.
Magazine article from: The Christian Century; 4/3/2007; 374 words
; MANY CHRISTIANS like to think that they take the Bible as it stands, but in reality they take the Bible as they understand it. What we get out of the Bible often has as much to do with what we bring to the text as with the text...
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From Moses to Musa.(influence of Bible in literature)
Magazine article from: New Criterion; 10/1/2005; ; 700+ words
; ...ancient Gnostic, Franz Kafka wrote, The Bible, sanctum; the world, sputum. In this formulation...it disparages the world in favor of the Bible, but that it leaves us no in-between we...any attentive reader of Kafka knows, the Bible stands in a subtle continuum with that...
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Battle for the Bible: the impasse over slavery: while abolitionists appealed to the spirit of the Bible, proslavery scholars could cite chapter and verse.(slavery in the view of Bible)
Magazine article from: The Christian Century; 5/2/2006; ; 700+ words
; ...1845, two able theologians debated the Bible's view of slavery in a public event in...L. Rice for the position that while the Bible pointed toward the eventual, voluntary...scripture, to the general principles of the Bible and the whole scope of the Bible, where...
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Baptists and the hard part of the Bible.
Magazine article from: Baptist History and Heritage; 3/22/2007; ; 567 words
; The Bible is far more complicated than some Baptists...most difficult thing about understanding the Bible is not the original languages in which it...occurred. That's not the really hard part of the Bible. The most difficult thing about the Bible...
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The state of the Bible in the twenty-first century.
Magazine article from: Currents in Theology and Mission; 2/1/2008; ; 700+ words
; ...and trying to attend to the role of the Bible in the life of the Christian church. I just...papers that not only reached back to what the Bible meant but in many cases also reached forward to what the Bible might mean for theology, ethics, and life...
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How do I read the Bible? Charlie Brown and friends offer practical insights on this crucial question.
Magazine article from: Presbyterian Record; 4/1/2000; ; 700+ words
; ...Smart writes in The Strange Silence of the Bible in the Church, that the mounting ignorance of the contents of the Bible among members of the church ... constitutes...Jesus Christ will always depend on the Bible's witness to him. When memory of the biblical...
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The English Bible and the Seventeenth Century Revolution.
Magazine article from: Contemporary Review; 8/1/1993; ; 700+ words
; ...adequately is rather like trying to review the Bible on a single sheet of paper. Professor Hill...looking at the influence on society of the Bible in the preceding century when |Lollards...found profoundly subversive messages in the Bible'. But it is the explosive effect of the...
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Stumped on hour one: Bible introduction leaves an appetite for more.(Alpha Teach Yourself The Bible in 24 Hours)(Book Review)
Magazine article from: Presbyterian Record; 7/1/2005; ; 449 words
; Alpha Teach Yourself The Bible in 24 Hours W.Terry Whalin Alpha Books...hardest task in this book was picking my Bible. I saw this book sitting on my editor...exactly the thing to introduce me to the Bible and help me gain a nice, rounded experience...
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Intimations of transcendence: Karen Armstrong pleads for a compassionate interpretation of the Bible.(The Bible: A Biography)(Book review)
Magazine article from: Presbyterian Record; 11/1/2008; ; 514 words
; The Bible: A Biography Karen Armstrong Atlantic Monthly...essentially two groups do most of the serious Bible reading: Those of us who make it say whatever...notes of Karen Armstrong's 2007 book, The Bible, estimated that more than six billion copies...
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Scripture: An Ecumenical Introduction to the Bible and Its Interpretation.(Book review)
Magazine article from: Biblical Theology Bulletin; 9/22/2006; ; 700+ words
; Scripture: An Ecumenical Introduction to the Bible and Its Interpretation. Edited by Michael...of producing an introduction to the Bible a unique sensitivity to various ways of being Christian and of reading the Bible (pp. vii-viii). The book was developed...
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Jabal ad Duruz
Book article from: The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition
, mountain, c.5,900 ft (1,800 m), S Syria, highest point of the Druze Mts.
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Jabal Shammar
Book article from: The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition
, former emirate, N Saudi Arabia. Its capital was at Hail. In 1921, Ibn Saud conquered the forces of the emir, Ibn Rashid, and annexed the territory to his kingdom of Nejd.
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Jabal Awliya
Book article from: The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition
or Jebel Aulia , village, N central Sudan. Nearby is a large dam (completed 1937) that is used to control the flow of the Nile to aid the Aswan Dam in storing water for summer cultivation in parts of Egypt.
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Akhdar Mountains
Book article from: Concise Dictionary of World Place-Names
Akhdar Mountains ( al‐Jabal al‐Akhdar ), Libya, Oman Oman: a mountain range, the great...Oman, meaning the ‘Green Mountain’ from the Arabic jabal ‘mountain’ and akhdar ‘green’. It is...
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Etna
Book article from: Concise Dictionary of World Place-Names
...Italy (Sicily): an active volcano, sometimes called locally Mongibello from the Latin mons and the Arabic jabal ; in Arabic it was called Jabal an‐Nār ‘Mountain of Fire’. The present name comes from an Indo‐European...
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