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Abram Ranovich (1885–1948) – Russian scholar of classical antiquity and religion. [32] Salomon Reinach (1858–1932) – French archaeologist and historian. Samuel Maximilian Rieser (1893–1981) – American lawyer and philosopher. [47] Jonathan M. Roberts (1821–1888) – American lawyer and spiritualist medium. [48]
[129] [130] According to the New American Bible, a Catholic Bible translation produced by the Confraternity of Christian Doctrine, the story of the Nephilim in Genesis 6:1–4 "is apparently a fragment of an old legend that had borrowed much from ancient mythology", and the "sons of God" mentioned in that passage are "celestial beings of ...
Robert McNair Price (born July 7, 1954) is an American New Testament scholar who argues in favor of the Christ myth theory – the claim that a historical Jesus did not exist. Price is the author of a number of books on biblical studies and the historicity of Jesus.
Biblical studies is the academic application of a set of diverse disciplines to the study of the Bible, with Bible referring to the books of the canonical Hebrew Bible in mainstream Jewish usage and the Christian Bible including the canonical Old Testament and New Testament, respectively.
1929 Belgian banknote, depicting Ceres, Neptune and caduceus Ballads of bravery (1877) part of Arthurian mythology. Myth is a genre of folklore consisting primarily of narratives that play a fundamental role in a society.
James L. Crenshaw was born in Sunset, South Carolina, on December 19, 1934, and educated at Furman University (B.A., 1956), Southern Baptist Theological Seminary (B.D., 1960), and Vanderbilt University (Ph.D., 1964), where he concentrated in Hebrew Bible under J. Phillip Hyatt and Walter Harrelson.
Her areas of specialization included Assyriology and Sumerology, biblical studies, Jewish studies, and women and religion.Her most recent books are "Reading the Women of the Bible," which received a Koret Jewish Book Award in 2002 and a National Jewish Book Award in 2003; [2] In the Wake of the Goddesses: Women, Culture and the Biblical Transformation of Pagan Myth; and Motherprayer: The ...
In addition to being one of the original translators of the New International Version of the Bible, [1] he was the general editor for Nelson's New Illustrated Bible Dictionary, [2] and on the editorial team for the Zondervan NASB Study Bible, [3] both of which earned the ECPA Christian Book Award for their respective publication years.