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East Africa's central business hub and Kenya's capital, Nairobi. Cape Peninsula of Cape Town, Africa's southernmost city and the second largest one in South Africa, also its legislative capital. Kampala is the hub of Uganda. View of Algiers: Algeria's metropolis is one of the most important economic and traditional centres in North Africa.
The locations, lands, and nations mentioned in the Bible are not all listed here. Some locations might appear twice, each time under a different name. Only places having their own Wikipedia articles are included. See also the list of minor biblical places for locations which do not have their own Wikipedia article.
While a number of biblical place names like Jerusalem, Athens, Damascus, Alexandria, Babylon and Rome have been used for centuries, some have changed over the years. Many place names in the Land of Israel, Holy Land and Palestine are Arabised forms of ancient Hebrew and Canaanite place-names used during biblical times [1] [2] [3] or later Aramaic or Greek formations.
Polygyny in South Africa is practiced among the indigenous Bantu ethnic groups of South Africa, and also within the Muslim community. Although it was widespread in ancient times, it is now only common amongst richer men and men of status, such as chiefs and kings, including the former President of the Republic of South Africa, Jacob Zuma . [ 88 ]
The aim of the Africa Bible Commentary is to relate the Bible to African realities of today. Along with commentary on the Bible, there are 70 articles on issues such as HIV/AIDs that are affecting African churches and individuals. [1] (See ACwiki for more details.) Tokunboh Adeyemo was the general editor.
It also includes charts, maps, study notes, Biblical harmonies, chronologies of Old Testament kings and prophets, and appendices. MacArthur, pastor of Grace Community Church and chancellor of The Master's Seminary , wrote more than half of the 20,000 entries himself in longhand, and reworked many of the others written by Seminary faculty.
Christianity in Africa arrived in Africa in the 1st century AD, and in the 21st century the majority of Africans are Christians. [1] Several African Christians influenced the early development of Christianity and shaped its doctrines, including Tertullian, Perpetua, Felicity, Clement of Alexandria, Origen of Alexandria, Cyprian, Athanasius and Augustine of Hippo.
In the Book of Numbers, the laws concerning the cities of refuge state that, once he had claimed asylum, a perpetrator had to be taken from the city and put on trial; [5] if the trial found that the perpetrator was innocent of murder, then the perpetrator had to be returned under guard (for their own protection) to the city in which they had claimed asylum. [6]