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The Jubilee ( Hebrew: יובל yōḇel; Yiddish: yoyvl) is the year that follows the passage of seven “weeks of years” (seven cycles of sabbatical years, or 49 total years). This fiftieth year [ 1] deals largely with land, property, and property rights. According to regulations found in the Book of Leviticus, certain indentured servants ...
This Bible, more than a 100 years old, was likely a prized possession of Michael and Mary Sutton, prominent Green Bay residents who moved to Wisconsin shortly after the Civil War.
Ussher chronology. The Ussher chronology is a 17th-century chronology of the history of the world formulated from a literal reading of the Old Testament by James Ussher, the Archbishop of Armagh and Primate of All Ireland. The chronology is sometimes associated with young Earth creationism, which holds that the universe was created only a few ...
Eric IX of Sweden, 1161 [ 70] Thomas Becket, 1170 - The most famous martyr of the Middle Ages. [ 71] Berard of Carbio and companions, 1220. Serapion of Algiers, 1240. Buzád Hahót, 1241. Peter of Verona, 1252 by Cathars - Canonized 11 months after his death; the fastest in history. Martyrs of Sandomierz, 1260.
And what a 500-year-old volume can still reveal. What is a Gutenberg Bible? The term refers to each of the two-volume Bibles printed in Gutenberg’s workshop around 1454.
The young Earth creationist belief that the age of the Earth is 6,000 to 10,000 years old conflicts with the age of 4.54 billion years measured using independently cross-validated geochronological methods including radiometric dating. [70]
Chronology of the Bible. The chronology of the Bible is an elaborate system of lifespans, ' generations ', and other means by which the Masoretic Hebrew Bible (the text of the Bible most commonly in use today) measures the passage of events from the creation to around 164 BCE (the year of the re-dedication of the Second Temple ).
Irenaeus, in Church of St Irenaeus, Lyon. Irenaeus was a Greek from Polycarp 's hometown of Smyrna in Asia Minor, now İzmir, Turkey, born during the first half of the 2nd century. The exact date is thought to be between the years 120 and 140. [ 9][ a] Unlike many of his contemporaries, he was brought up in a Christian family rather than ...