What Does the Bible Say About Tattoos?
网页2023年10月15日 · Tattoos were used to mark slaves. Often the name of a slave’s owner would be tattooed or branded on his hand or forehead. If the slave were to run away, he could be easily returned to his master. Thus, tattooing was seen as a sign of ownership. Chavalas thinks that this might be behind the taboo on tattoos in the Bible.
Jesus and the Cross - Biblical Archaeology Society
网页2024年1月25日 · Throughout the world, images of the cross adorn the walls and steeples of churches. For some Christians, the cross is part of their daily attire worn around their necks. Sometimes the cross even adorns the body of a Christian in permanent ink. In Egypt, among other countries, for example, Christians wear a tattoo of the cross on their wrists.
Love Your Neighbor: Only Israelites or Everyone?
网页2023年12月31日 · All of them are referred to in the Bible’s Levite sources (E, P and D of the Documentary Hypothesis). Levites like Moses fled Egypt to form a new nation of Israelites who were to “love your neighbor.”. It’s one of the most famous lines in the Bible: “Love your neighbor as yourself” (Leviticus 19:18). Impressive.
10 Things to Know About the Assyrian Empire
网页2024年7月21日 · Below, learn 10 fascinating facts about the Assyrians. 1. The Assyrian population grew around the region known as Mesopotamia in modern-day Iraq. Nourished by the Tigris and Euphrates Rivers, the cities of Mesopotamia —Greek for “the land between two rivers”—flourished from the 20th century to the end of the seventh century B.C.E. As ...
Daily Life in Ancient Israel - Biblical Archaeology Society
网页2024年9月3日 · Biblical Archaeology Society Staff September 03, 2024 11 Comments 86336 views Share. According to author Robert D. Miller, archaeological surveys and excavations of the central hill country have provided a much clearer picture of daily life in ancient Israel during the time of the Biblical Judges and the early Israelite settlers of Canaan.
What Happened to Cain in the Bible? - Biblical Archaeology Society
网页2024年7月9日 · One of the most popular interpretations credits Lamech—Cain’s great, great grandson—with killing Cain. Lamech admits to having killed a man in Genesis 4:23–24. Ancient interpreters believed that this passage sheds light on who killed Cain in the Bible, and they identified the man Lamech killed in verse 23 with Cain.
The Origin of Christianity - Biblical Archaeology Society
网页2024年9月12日 · It began around 40 C.E. with the admission into the church of the family of the Roman centurion Cornelius in Caesarea (Acts 10). Later came the gentile members of the mixed Jewish-Greek church in Antioch (Acts 11:19–24; Galatians 2:11–14), as well as the many pagan converts of Paul in Syria, Asia Minor and Greece.
The Origins of Judaism - Biblical Archaeology Society
网页2022年12月26日 · Photo in public domain. In sum, the archaeological evidence for observance of the laws of the Torah in the daily lives of ordinary Judeans seems to situate the origins of Judaism around the middle of the second century BCE. To delve into the intricacies of the textual and archaeological evidence for …
The Göbekli Tepe Ruins and the Origins of Neolithic Religion
网页2024年5月12日 · On a hill known as Göbekli Tepe (“Potbelly Hill”) in southeastern Turkey, excavations led by Klaus Schmidt uncovered several large megalithic enclosures that date between 10,000 and 8000 B.C.E., the dawn of civilization and the Neolithic age. Each of these circular enclosures, which many have described as Turkey’s “Stonehenge ...
The Exodus: Fact or Fiction? - Biblical Archaeology Society
网页2024年4月4日 · Evidence of Israel’s Exodus from Egypt. Dated to c. 1219 B.C.E., the Merneptah Stele is the earliest extrabiblical record of a people group called Israel. Set up by Pharaoh Merneptah to commemorate his military victories, the stele proclaims, “Ashkelon is carried off, and Gezer is captured. Yeno’am is made into nonexistence; Israel is ...