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A spring is the "eye of the landscape", the natural burst of living water, flowing all year or drying up at certain seasons. In contrast to the "troubled waters" of wells and rivers (Jer. 2:18), there gushes forth from it "living water", to which Jesus compared the grace of the Holy Spirit (John 4:10; 7:38; compare Isaiah 12:3; 44:3).
Jubb Yussef (Arabic: جُبّ يُوسُف, Hebrew: גוב יוסף), also known as "Joseph's Well" in English, is an archaeological site in Ramat Korazim in Galilee, Israel. It is believed by Muslims to be the site of the pit into which Yusuf (Joseph) , a figure which is part of both the Biblical and Quranic narratives, was thrown by his brothers.
Jehoash Inscription – controversial black stone tablet in Phoenician regarding King Jehoash's repair work. Suspected to be a forgery. Suspected to be a forgery. Ivory pomegranate – a thumb-sized semitic ornamental artifact bears an inscription: "Holy to the Priest of the House of God [blank, but reconstructed YHWH ]", thought to have ...
Elim (Hebrew: אֵילִם, romanized: ʾĒlīm), according to the Hebrew Bible, was one of the places where the Israelites camped following the Exodus from Egypt. It is referred to in Exodus 15:27 and Numbers 33:9 as a place where "there were twelve wells of water and seventy date palms," and that the Israelites "camped there near the waters".
Although it was not exactly the face of Jesus, [68] the result of the study determined that Jesus's skin would have been more dark brown or Black and not olive or white. Jesus' skin tone referenced in the Bible, was like burnt bronze. [61] which should determine that he would have most likely been darker skinned.
A Black family's Bible ended up in the Smithsonian and helped a California family fill out its genealogy. It's on display in the National Museum of African American History and Culture.
These are biblical figures unambiguously identified in contemporary sources according to scholarly consensus.Biblical figures that are identified in artifacts of questionable authenticity, for example the Jehoash Inscription and the bullae of Baruch ben Neriah, or who are mentioned in ancient but non-contemporary documents, such as David and Balaam, [n 1] are excluded from this list.
An heirloom family Bible offered names and family rumors swirled around other details, but she harbored little hope of finding much more. “We all knew that as African Americans that our records ...