Search results
Results From The WOW.Com Content Network
Ohio. Texas. Virginia. The term Bible Belt refers to a region of the Southern United States and the Midwestern state of Missouri (which also has significant Southern influence), where Christian Protestanism exerts a strong social and cultural influence. The region has been described as one of the most socially conservative across the United ...
Pictorial representations of the Jesse Tree show a symbolic tree or vine with spreading branches to represent the genealogy in accordance with Isaiah's prophecy. The 12th-century monk Hervaeus expressed the medieval understanding of the image, based on the Vulgate text: "The patriarch Jesse belonged to the royal family, that is why the root of Jesse signifies the lineage of kings.
The Bible Belt ( Dutch: bijbelgordel, biblebelt) is a strip of land in the Netherlands with the highest concentration of conservative orthodox Reformed Protestants in the country. Although the term is of recent origin (named by analogy after the Bible Belt of the United States) the Dutch Bible Belt has existed for many generations.
The Bible is a television miniseries based on the Bible. It was produced by Roma Downey and Mark Burnett [ 2][ 3] and was broadcast weekly between March 3 and 31, 2013 on History channel. [ 4] It has since been adapted as a feature film, Son of God . Burnett, best known for producing prime-time hit reality shows, considers the scripted 10-hour ...
Biblical sandals. Biblical sandals ( Hebrew: סנדלים תנ"כיים, sandalim tanakhim ), also called Tanakhi sandals and Khugistic sandals ( Hebrew: סנדלים חוגיסטיים, sandalim ḥugistim ), [1] are sandals consisting of a sole with two leather straps that pass across the top of the foot, and one around the heel. [2] The ...
The Norwegian Bible Belt (Norwegian: bibelbeltet) is a loosely defined southwestern coastal area of Norway, which is more religiously observant than most of the rest of the country. [ 1] Typically, the definition covers Western Norway (Vestlandet) and Southern Norway (Sørlandet), which includes the counties of Rogaland (typically called the ...
The theme of The Bible in History is the need to treat the bible as literature rather than as history. Danny Yee cites a passage: "The Bible's language is not an historical language. It is a language of high literature, of story, of sermon and of song. It is a tool of philosophy and moral instruction." [1]
The historicity of the Bible is the question of the Bible 's relationship to history —covering not just the Bible's acceptability as history but also the ability to understand the literary forms of biblical narrative. [ 1] One can extend biblical historicity to the evaluation of whether or not the Christian New Testament is an accurate record ...