Primordial Deities of Ancient Greek Mythology Ancient Greek scholars disagree about which deities existed before Gaea and Uranus, but most agree that Chaos was there before anything else existed. Chaos was a dark emptiness. Like in the Biblical story of creation, this darkness existed before the emergence of Gaea, the first goddess. According to the…
Category: Bible History
Old Testament Bible Chronology – Approximate Dates
The following information was taken from: Chronology: Abraham to the Exodus Abraham was born sometime near the date of 2,000 BC 2031 – Abram’s son Ishmaél was born Abram’s son Ishmaél was born when Abram was 86 (Ge.16:16), around 2031 BC. 2017 – Abram’s son Isaac was born c. 2012 – Abram’s Promise from God “The…
In Genesis, We Are Told that God Created the World — What Does that Say about God?
Last year, in honor of the publication of my debut picture book, The Donkey’s Song, I launched an Advent program that I hope to enlarge every year. Very briefly, Advent is a way of preparing for Christmas–one day at a time–and it begins on the fourth Sunday before Christmas. People celebrate Advent in several ways….
Who Was Thutmose III & How Did He Figure in the Story of Baby Moses?
royal sculpture, dyn18, Thutmose III, Deir el-Bahari, NK “Thutmose III (variously also spelt Tuthmosis or Thothmes), sometimes called Thutmose the Great,[3] was the sixth pharaoh of the Eighteenth Dynasty. Officially, Thutmose III ruled Egypt for almost 54 years and his reign is usually dated from 28 April 1479 BC to 11 March 1425 BC, from the…
Hatshepsut, a Female Egyptian Pharaoh and How She May Have Figured into the Story of Moses
“Hatshepsut (Hat-shep-soot), the first important female ruler known to history, lived a thousand years after the pyramids were built and seventeen centuries after the Egyptians had begun writing their language in hieroglyphs. She ruled Egypt for two decades (ca. 1473–1458 B.C.) during Egypt’s Dynasty 18. Although less familiar to modern audiences than her much later successor,…
Hippos in the Old Testament of the Bible
Much of the history of the Old Testament takes place in Egypt, and hippos are important in Ancient Egyptian mythology. Yet, the word “hippopotamus” does not occur in the Bible. Many scholars, however, agree that the behemoth mentioned in Job was a hippopotamus. But long before the time of Job, Baby Moses was born in Egypt,…
The Crocodile in the Bible and in Ancient Egyptian Religion
“The falcon-headed crocodile is here crowned with a sun disk, indicating its association with a solar god.” The Met Horus – Egyptian God with a Falcon Head “The god Horus, represented as a falcon or a human with a falcon head, was a sun god as well as the ancient Egyptian god of kingship, representing…
What is a Parable? A List of Parables in the Bible
A Parable is a story. Jesus told parables to help his followers understand various principles. A Parable is an illustration or comparison told to increase the listener’s understanding. In those cases, the stories usually symbolized something else. The following classification of parables is adapted from A. B. Bruce, The Parabolic Teaching of Christ (1904), pp. 8ff. Didactic…
Aesops Fables and the Bible: How Was Ancient Greece Connected to the Bible?
In a recent Bible study of the book of Jeremiah, the phrase “sour grapes” came up. Many of us who have studied literature know that the concept of “sour grapes” is also part of one of Aesop’s Fables. Image Credit: Walter Crane – from The Baby’s Own Aesop Published in 1887 THE FOX AND THE…
Stars, Astronomy, The Star of Bethlehem and the Magi in the Bible
The Magi Visit the Messiah 2 After Jesus was born in Bethlehem in Judea, during the time of King Herod, Magi[a] from the east came to Jerusalem 2 and asked, “Where is the one who has been born king of the Jews? We saw his star when it rose and have come to worship him.” 3 When King Herod heard this he was disturbed,…