Can anybody tell me some Old Testament history?
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My girlfriend could tell you all about the old testament
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Someone posted a question trying to justify incest with his daughters using the OT example of Lot as an example. I spent quite a time answering this, only to find the next morning that the question had been removed. Just in case anybody else has problems with the passage, here's my answer anyway.\n\nLot and his Daughters\n\nThank you for raising this question, it's caused me to get my Bible out and read the story again for myself. If anybody is actually interested in understanding it properly, they need to go back to Genesis 11 and start from the beginning.\n\nAn old pagan called Abram is worshipping one day at the local ziggurat in Ur of the Chaldees and Yahweh comes and reveals Himself to him. The Bible doesn't tell us that Abram did anything special to earn or merit this revelation, just that God, for His own reasons, chose to reveal Himself to him. This really upset the religious locals, who followed a mixture of astrology and Babylonian mystery religions. Abram was rejecting their pantheon of Gods and going round telling people there was only one true God. Talk about upsetting the neighbours. And you should have heard the gossip!\n\nAbram leaves Ur with his father Terah, his nephew Lot and their households. They passed through the Euphrates (a type of baptism) and arrived at Harran, where they got too comfortable and stayed until Terah dies. At this point Yahweh gives Abram a kick up the backside and points him towards the Promised Land.\n\nSome time after they arrive in Caanan there is a famine, and what happens next has a direct bearing on Genesis 19 as cited.\n\nAbram, taking Sarai his wife and Lot with him, goes down into Egypt (always a type for the world). Here they encounter all the corruption of Pharaoh’s court and the fleshpots of the most advanced nation on earth. After moving back to Caanan, Lot sits round the campfire and dreams of the forbidden things he has seen. If you carefully read the start of chapter 13, you will see that when Lot separated from Abram, he looked to the east, towards Sodom, and chose that because it reminded him of Egypt and the forbidden pleasures that he had been dreaming of.\n\nFast forward now to chapter 19 and Lot has given up farming on the plains outside of Sodom and has allowed the lure of sin to draw him inside the city. Lot had abandoned his God to the extent that he was prepared to allow his daughters to marry those that God called detestable, but even so, God did not abandon him.\n\nWe know what happened next, but if you really think that God condoned the sin you have to be crazy. The offspring of those illicit unions went on to form the Moabites and the Ammonites, two of the most cursed tribes in history.\n\nThis is a classic morality tale of reaping that which you have sown and is recorded not only as historical truth, but as an admonition to all of us. Genuine queries on any of this are welcome.
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As a historical document, the Old Testament of the Bible (or the Jewish Torah) has stories about women dating back thousands of years with a couple of the books devoted entirely to the story of particular woman (Ruth, Esther).
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there is a really cool book named, Then and Now Bible Maps, it has like tranparent pages with current cities, that go over the regular page with the ancient cities.\nand you could check out this website
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Read an article on this. It was rather interesting, it gave examples from both the New Testament and the Old as well as other Jewish texts.
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The old testament has proved useful in dating known events in ancient Egypt.
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Try these 2 sites:\n\nhttp://www.mit.edu/afs/athena/course/21/21h.580/www/bz/bz7.jpg\n\nhttp://www.pbs.org/wgbh/pages/frontline/shows/religion/maps/jewish.html
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I don't know the answer to your Q, but I think I can help you find it for yourself.\nTry to recall any words that you can remember of what wat read, and them look those words up in a concordance or online Bible site such as www.biblegateway.com\n\nit might take some time, but I'm sure you will be able to find it (and might just come up with some interesting Bible reading in the proccess.)
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I taught History and this is still one of my favorite sites on King Tutankhamen.\n\nhttp://www.nationalgeographic.com/egypt/\n\nThis is another good site:\n\nhttp://www.kingtutone.com/tutankhamun/enter/\n\nAnd finally this one:\n\nhttp://www.eyewitnesstohistory.com/tut.htm\n\nEnjoy!
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I think the dead sea scolls are a wonderful find and give us great insight to the fact that the Old Testament has largly remained intact thruogh the centuries. Not to mention that they gives a lot as far as understanding lituature of the day. As for the Old Testamnet apocrypha they are good reading and give us useful information about many thing but they are in some cases not historicaly correct and should not be considered scripture. They were never canonized (met the standard) by the jewish people of that day and were recognized as religous material but not the word of God. Later scholar including Jerome,Melito, Epiphanius, and Origen make a distiction between these and the rest of the Old Testamnet. In addition to that Jesus Himself acknowleges the authority of the Scriptures and cite them often but He never cited or acknowledged the apocyrphal books
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The history return back to 5000 years ago (the Jewish Time)\nthen Christians growing up in this land and spread on all of the world.\nthen at early Muslim pray on Beit-Al Moghadas (Beite al lahem) then Mohammad ask them to turn to Mecca to pray because Beit al Moghadas is belong to Jewish. then on time of Byzantine there was a war between Muslims and Christians (crusade) then they occupied the land by Sallah Al Din Ayobi. After that Palestine Established and now Jewish wants to comeback to their holy land that god promise them.\n\nThey bought this land from Palestinian and after they sold they find out neither have money and land then they start to fighting.\n Better to ref fer old testaments
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So Many events that the spirit of GOD existed in Old Testament. The 1 example is Daniel, in the mids of lion & in the fire inside the oven. Also in the time of Moises, Elijah, David, Abraham, Jacob, Joseph, & so manyyyyyyyyyyyy ......!
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The Old Testament for-warns us of up coming events and how it all came to be. Its like going to the end of the story and reading the last page...we need the old with the new to better understand and to encourage our faith.
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Dead Sea.\n\nBedouin shepherds accidentally stumbled upon one of the most important religious discoveries of all time -- The Dead Sea Scrolls.\n\nSeven ancient scrolls, written in Aramaic, Herbrew, and Greek, discovered by Bedouin shepherds in 1947, 13 miles east of Jerusalem, turned out to be from the period between 200 B.C. and A.D. 68. The scrolls held information about the Old Testament, including material never seen before in modern times.
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Actually, there is a lot said on immigration in both the Hebrew and Greek Scriptures. How it pertains to recent political matters, however, is another topic entirely.\n\nReasons for immigration included God's command (1), famine (2), conquering nations (3), and various other reasons (4). Please note, this is not intended to be a complete list of reasons for ancient immigration nor Biblical texts that discuss said topic.\n\n1) Cain's banishment (emigration) from the vicinity of Eden was punishment for murder -- Genesis 4:15. Abraham was commanded by God to immigrate to the land of Canaan from Ur -- Genesis 12:4; 15:7. Hebrew exodus from Egypt -- Exodus 12:38.\n\n2) Abraham and Jacob's families immigrated to Egypt -- Genesis 12:10; 45:9-11. Elimelech's family immigrated to Moab -- Ruth 1:1, 2.\n\n3) Assyrians were well-known for uprooting conquered peoples --2 Kings 15:29; 17:24, 1Chronicles 5:26.  Many Jews were forced to immigrate to Babylon after being conquered by the Babylonians -- Jeremiah 52:15, Daniel 1:3.\n\n4) The Mosaic Law required that alien residents in Israel be treated well, like family -- Leviticus 19:33, 34. The Gibeonites were spared from death and became temple servants in Israel -- Joshua 9:22-27. Ruth, an ancestress of Jesus, immigrated to Israel from Moab -- Ruth 1:7. First century Christians spread throughout the Mediterranean and middle east as a result of religious persecution -- Acts 11:19.
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go to http://www.circassiancanada.com/ing/02_adygey/05_history/ad_sacred_war.htm
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Nope.  \n\nSecularists especially, use these "Didn't the (whatever Bible story) get copied from (whatever extra-biblical source)?"  all the time.  These have been discredited over and over again, yet they keep coming back.\n\nWhile it is true that there are similar stories in various other ancient texts, they are also very dissimilar.  You can look to the Amarna Letters, Babylonian Theodicy, Elba Tablets, Hammurabi's Code, Ishtar's Descent, Ludlul Bel Nemedi, Mari Tablets, and innumerable others, and find stories that are similar to the Bible's.  That hardly allows for them to be sources.\n\nKeep in mind also, when the Flood occurred, it was world-wide, and every ancient civilization recorded it.  These are also descendants of Noah, who abandoned YHWH as God, and followed idols instead.  The veracity of the story remains.  You can look to other stories in the same vein.