'Promised Land': How The Biblical Idea Of Greater Israel Fuels Conflict
The call of Eretz Israel, the biblical ‘promised land’, is one that both the secularists and the religious Zionists of Israel ...
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Who Were the 12 Tribes of Israel and Did They Exist?
One explanation in the book of Numbers is that God only allotted land in ... 12 tribes of Israel is central to the narrative ...
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Archaeologists Discover Evidence of 3200-Year-Old Bible Story Where Moses Led His People To The Promised Land
Archaeologists have recently uncovered significant findings in Zanoah, a location mentioned in the Old Testament, shedding ...
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Commentary on the Revised Lyrics to "O Come, O Come, Emmanuel"
Possibly first translated into English by John M. Neale, Mediaeval Hymns, 1851, additional verses and alternative translations have been added over the centuries. The added verses all express ...
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Multiple efforts in Jewish sovereignty have self-destructed after 75 years. Can Israel defy history — again?
The first 75 years of Israel, in which it has become a powerful and thriving state, are a testament to the success ... nation enjoyed sovereignty in the land of Israel: at the end of the 11th ...
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Eucharist foreshadowed in Old Testament writings
In previous columns, I have shown how certain truths of the faith in the New Testament were prefigured and foreshadowed in the Old Testament ... the first born sons of Israel.
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‘In the Beginning’: Creation Through the Eyes of Faith and Art
Even secular people generally know something of the accounts of creation in Genesis 1-2. Whenever people hear the phrase, “In ...
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Child finds 100-year-old cross medallion in Jerusalem
Accidentally found on a school trip, the religious object was likely brought by Christian pilgrims to the Holy Land.