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"[Lydia's] name is an ethnicon, deriving from her place of origin". [1] The first refers to her place of birth, which is a city in the ancient region of Lydia (modern-day Akhisar , Turkey). The second comes from the Latin word for purple and relates to her connection with purple dye.
The Bible is a collection of canonical sacred texts of Judaism and Christianity.Different religious groups include different books within their canons, in different orders, and sometimes divide or combine books, or incorporate additional material into canonical books.
Jacob was the son of Matthan [13] and the father of Saint Joseph in the Genealogy of Jesus according to Sai Matthew.According to Sextus Julius Africanus, Heli and Jacob were step-brothers, and Heli died without having children, and his widow married his brother Jacob and bore him a child according to the law of Levirate Marriage his brother was legally the father of Saint Joseph as well. [14]
This is an outline of commentaries and commentators.Discussed are the salient points of Jewish, patristic, medieval, and modern commentaries on the Bible. The article includes discussion of the Targums, Mishna, and Talmuds, which are not regarded as Bible commentaries in the modern sense of the word, but which provide the foundation for later commentary.
The descendants of Lud are usually, following Josephus, connected with various Anatolian peoples, particularly Lydia (Assyrian Luddu) and their predecessors, the Luwians; cf. Herodotus' assertion (Histories i. 7) that the Lydians were first so named after their king, Lydus (Λυδός).
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Rembrandt, Timothy and his Grandmother, 1648.. According to the New Testament, Lois was the grandmother of Timothy.According to extrabiblical tradition, she was born into the Jewish faith, and later accepted Christianity along with her daughter Eunice.
[1] According to Josephus , their land was in Libya which was west of Egypt near the tribes of Phut in the land of the Moors towards the extreme west of Africa and the Atlantic Ocean . [ 2 ] Pliny in his natural history mentions the river Laud along south of the Atlas Mountains near the river Fut (Phut). [ 3 ]