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Belshazzar's feast, or the story of the writing on the wall, chapter 5 in the Book of Daniel, tells how Belshazzar holds a great feast and drinks from the vessels that had been looted in the destruction of the First Temple. A hand appears and writes on the wall. The terrified Belshazzar calls for his wise men, but they cannot read the writing.
Phyllis Trible (born October 25, 1932) is a feminist biblical scholar from Richmond, Virginia, United States. [1] Trible's scholarship focuses on the Hebrew Bible and she is noted for her prominent influence on feminist biblical interpretation. [2]
The film suggests the Earth was created in six days of 24-hours each in opposition to day-age creationism, and also advocates the Genesis biblical narratives of Adam and Eve, the Fall, the global flood, and the tower of Babel. It grossed $2.6 million in theaters and $3.3 million in video sales.
Biblical archaeology emerged in the late 19th century, by British and American archaeologists, with the aim of confirming the historicity of the Bible. Between the 1920s, right after World War I , when Palestine came under British rule and the 1960s, biblical archaeology became the dominant American school of Levantine archaeology, led by ...
Intolerance is a 1916 epic anthology silent film directed by D. W. Griffith.Subtitled as Love's Struggle Throughout the Ages and A Sun-Play of the Ages, [2] [3] the three-and-a-half-hour epic intercuts four parallel storylines, each separated by several centuries: first, a contemporary melodrama of crime and redemption; second, a Biblical story: Christ's mission and death; third, a French ...
Rediscovering God in America was produced in 2008, with Newt and Callista Gingrich narrating [12] as the book illustrates the importance of "our Creator" to America's founders and their successors. Based on the New York Times bestseller, Rediscovering God in America , this documentary seeks to remind viewers that the United States is indeed ...
The Baháʼí interpretation of chapters 11 and 12 of the Book of Revelation, together with the predictions of Daniel, were explained by 'Abdu'l-Bahá, the son of the founder of the Baháʼí Faith, to Laura Clifford Barney and published in 1908 in Chapters 10, 11 and 13 of "Some Answered Questions". The explanation provided in Chapter 10 draws ...
The film was based on the book by David W. Balsiger. Filmed independently and inexpensively, the documentary makes the assertion that Noah's Ark, from the biblical flood narrative, has been found on the slopes of Mount Ararat in Turkey, though physical and political difficulties prevent a more extensive study of the alleged vessel. The movie ...