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The earlier period would place Obadiah as a contemporary of the prophet Elijah. The later date would place Obadiah as a contemporary of the prophet Jeremiah. A sixth-century date for Obadiah is a "near consensus" position among scholars. [16] Obadiah 1–9 contains parallels to the Book of Jeremiah 49:7–22.
Vision of Obadiah. According to the Talmud, Obadiah is said to have been a convert to Judaism from Edom, [9] a descendant of Eliphaz, the friend of Job. He is identified with the Obadiah who was the servant of Ahab, and was chosen to prophesy against Edom because he was himself an Edomite.
Luke 10 is the tenth chapter of the Gospel of Luke in the New Testament of the Christian Bible. It records the sending of seventy disciples by Jesus, the famous parable about the Good Samaritan , and his visit to the house of Mary and Martha . [ 1 ]
Luke uses the terms "Jews" and "Israelites" in a way unlike Mark, but like John. Both gospels have characters named Mary of Bethany, Martha, and Lazarus, although John's Lazarus is portrayed as a real person, while Luke's is a figure in a parable. There are several points where Luke's passion narrative resembles that of John.
Equally high was Obadiah's reputation as a casuist. Meïr Katzenellenbogen consulted him on legal questions, [5] and Joseph Colon invoked his authority. [6] At the request of Israel ben Jehiel Ashkenazi, rabbi of Rome, Obadiah issued a decision in the case of Donina, daughter of Samuel Ẓdarfati, the renowned physician of the pope.
An apocryphal work in ten books called Historia Certaminis Apostolici ("History of the Apostolical Contest") [2] was traditionally ascribed to an Abdias, assumed to be this bishop of Babylon. [3] It is a major collection of New Testament apocrypha , which tells of the labors and miracles, persecution and deaths of the Apostles.
According to 1 Kings 18:4, Obadiah hid a hundred prophets of God in two caves, fifty in each, to protect them from Jezebel, Ahab's wife.Later statements of the prophet Elijah, where he describes himself as the only remaining prophet of Yahweh [2] led biblical theologian Otto Thenius to conclude that eventually they were captured and killed, but George Rawlinson and other commentators argue ...
The parallels (also Matthew 9:35, Matthew 10:1, and Matthew 10:5–42) suggest a common origin in the hypothesized Q document. Luke also mentions the Great Commission to "all nations" (Luke 24:44–49) but in less detail than Matthew's account, and Mark 16:19–20 mentions the Dispersion of the Apostles.