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  2. Portal:Bible/Featured chapter/Genesis 24 - Wikipedia

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    genesis 24 Abraham sends his servant to his homeland to find a wife for Isaac. When the servant arrives in Nahor, he prays to God to determine who would be a good wife.

  3. Chayei Sarah - Wikipedia

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    The 400 shekels of silver that Abraham paid Ephron the Hittite to buy the cave of Machpelah and adjoining land in Genesis 23:14–16 far exceeds the 100 pieces of silver that Jacob paid the children of Hamor for the parcel of ground where he had spread his tent outside the city of Shechem in Genesis 33:18–19; the 50 shekels of silver that ...

  4. Gap creationism - Wikipedia

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    Gap creationism (also known as ruin-restoration creationism, restoration creationism, or "the Gap Theory") is a form of old Earth creationism that posits that the six-yom creation period, as described in the Book of Genesis, involved six literal 24-hour days (light being "day" and dark "night" as God specified), but that there was a gap of time between two distinct creations in the first and ...

  5. Allegorical interpretations of Genesis - Wikipedia

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    The literalist reading of some contemporary Christians and New Atheists maligns the allegorical or mythical interpretation of Genesis as a belated attempt to reconcile science with the biblical account. They maintain that the story of origins had always been interpreted literally until modern science (and, specifically, biological evolution ...

  6. Hermann Gunkel - Wikipedia

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    In 1901, he produced the first of three editions of commentary on Genesis, Genesis Translated and Explained. [4] In 1907, Gunkel finally obtained a full professorship at the University of Giessen. There he produced the third and final edition of Genesis in 1910 and The Prophets in 1917. He moved to the University of Halle-Wittenberg in 1920.

  7. Pesher on Genesis - Wikipedia

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    The content of the fragments covers the curse on Canaan, the grandson of Noah from Genesis 9:24–25; the events leading up to the binding of Isaac in Gen. 22:5–7; the blessing of Judah from Gen. 49:8–12; a commentary on the 'two anointed ones' possibly from Zechariah 4:14 or perhaps part of the blessing on Judah in Gen 49:8–12; Jacob's ...

  8. Mysteries of the Bible - Wikipedia

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    NOTE: TV Guide has this listed as an episode of Ancient Mysteries. #6 "Life and Death Of the Holy Temple" [24] January 25, 1996 [25] 1. The Holy Of Holies 2. The Ark Of The Covenant 3. Cradle Of The World 4. A Miracle On The Mount 5. A Holy Quest Interviews with Rabbi Aron B. Tendler, Rabbi David Wolpe, Graham Hancock, Baruch A. Levine, Walter ...

  9. Day-age creationism - Wikipedia

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    Day-age creationism, a type of old Earth creationism, is an interpretation of the creation accounts in Genesis. It holds that the six days referred to in the Genesis account of creation are not literal 24-hour days, but are much longer periods (from thousands to billions of years). The Genesis account is then reconciled with the age of the Earth.