THE STORY OF HAGAR AND ISHMAEL “After the great flood the family of Noah and those who came after him grew in number, until, as the years went on, the earth began to be full of people once more. But there was one great difference between the people who had lived before the flood and…
Month: September 2024
Turn A Tiny Memory from Your Past into A Picture Book – How to Write Memoir – #Memoir Mondays
The first ingredient of any picture book is a story. After we find our stories, we writers need to polish them a bit–but the effort begins with a story. I am an advocate of looking within for our stories–at looking at the memories from our pasts. I have recently studied the massive library of Tomie…
Map Building Tutorials
Map Effects Fantasy Map Kit Here’s What You’ll Get: 300+ Hand-illustrated brushes by Josh Stolarz 40x Mountain stamps for mountains, hills, and volcanoes 40x Forest stamps for coniferous or deciduous trees you can use separately or combine. 22x Vegetation stamps for marshes, grasslands, and deserts 40x Terrain stamps for dunes, rocks & boulders, crevasses,…
An Atlas of Lost Kingdoms
written by Emily Hawkins, illustrated by Lauren Mark Baldo Contents Europe Atlantis Camelot My Brasil The Lost City of Ys Yggdrasil Cockaigne The Fortunate Isles: Paradise Islands from Greek Mythology Buyan: Vanishing Island from Slavic Folklore Sholomance Africa Central & South America Australasia & Oceania Lost Continents
Chronology of the Stories of the Bible
The Creation of the World Adam and Eve Cain and Abel Seth Noah The Tower of Babel Terah and Pagans at Ur Abram [Abraham] Sarai [Sarah] Hagar Ishmael Isaac Esau and Jacob Jacob and His Sons Joseph’s Coat of Man Colors
Timeline: The Lineage of Jesus
From Adam unto Noah’s flood are years 1656. From Adam unto Christ, are 3974 years, six months, The following record is from Houston Christian University The Lineage of Jesus For when Adam was 130 years old he begat Seth. Seth being 105 years, begat Enos. Enos, being 90 years, begat Cainan. Cainan, being 70 years,…
Bible Stories about Isaac
The Testing of Abraham Painted by Fritz von Uhde ABRAHAM’S LOYALTY TO GOD Later Jehovah tested Abraham, saying to him, “Abraham”; and he answered, “Here am I.” Jehovah said, “Take your son, your only son Isaac… {A reminder: Abraham had another son, Ishmael, but Ishmael was not born out of his marriage to Sarah] …
Bible Stories about Ishmael
THE BANISHMENT OF HAGAR, BY GUERCINO IN THE BRERA, MILAN Hagar and Ishmael Genesis 16 16 Now Sarai, Abram’s wife, had borne him no children. But she had an Egyptian slave named Hagar;2 so she said to Abram, “The Lord has kept me from having children. Go, sleep with my slave; perhaps I can build a family through her.” Abram agreed to what…
Bible Stories about Lot and His Wife
According to the Hebrew Bible, Lot was born to Haran, who died in Ur of the Chaldees. Terah, Lot’s grandfather, took Abram (later called Abraham), Lot, and Sarai (later called Sarah) to go into Canaan. They settled at the site called Haran, where Terah died. Wikipedia To fully grasp the story of Lot, you should look at…
Bible Stories about Abraham
ABRAHAM, THE FRIEND OF GOD AND MAN The sons of Noah who came out of the ark were Shem, Ham and Japheth. Terah, a descendant of Shem, was the father of Abraham, Nahor and Haran; and Haran was the father of Lot. Jehovah said to Abraham, “Go from your country, your relatives, and your father’s…