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The New Testament provides two accounts of the genealogy of Jesus, one in the Gospel of Matthew and another in the Gospel of Luke. [1] [non-primary source needed] Matthew starts with Abraham, while Luke begins with Adam.{Luke 3:23-38} The lists are identical between Abraham and David but differ radically from that point.
Seth, [a] in the Abrahamic religions, was the third son of Adam and Eve.According to the Hebrew Bible, he had two brothers: Cain and Abel.According to Genesis 4:25, Seth was born after Abel's murder by Cain, and Eve believed that God had appointed him as a replacement for Abel.
In some rabbinical interpretations, Amalek is etymologised as am lak, 'a people who lick (blood)', [6] but most scholars regard the origin to be unknown. [7]Some Arabian stories mention an Arab tribe called "Amaliq" that existed at the time of Islamic prophet Ishmael, [8] but it is not clear if this is the same tribe.
Etching by Jan Luyken showing the triumphant return of the shepherd, from the Bowyer Bible. Parable of the Lost Sheep (right) in St Mary's Cathedral, Kilkenny, Ireland. The Parable of the Lost Sheep is one of the parables of Jesus.
An American Christian family's Bible dating to 1859. Disputes regarding the internal consistency and textual integrity of the Bible have a long history.. Classic texts that discuss questions of inconsistency from a critical secular perspective include the Tractatus Theologico-Politicus by Baruch Spinoza, the Dictionnaire philosophique of Voltaire, the Encyclopédie of Denis Diderot and The Age ...
Hosea 13:1–3 describes how the Israelites are abandoning Yahweh for the worship of Baal, and accuses them of making or using molten images for 'idol' worship. Chief among these was the image of the bull at the northern shrine of Bethel, which by the time of Hosea was being worshipped as an image of Baal.
According to the Bible, the Tribe of Levi is one of the tribes of Israel, traditionally descended from Levi, son of Jacob. The descendants of Aaron, who was the first High Priest of Israel, were designated as the priestly class, the Kohanim. Levite reading the law to the Israelites (1873 drawing)
The Uruk period civilization, exported by Sumerian traders and colonists, like that found at Tell Brak, had an effect on all surrounding peoples, who gradually evolved their own comparable, competing economies and cultures. The cities of Sumer could not maintain remote, long-distance colonies by military force. [45] [page needed]