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• TamarPeople

  Tamar is chiefly the woman in Genesis 38 who bore Perez and Zerah to her father-in-law Judah and whose name appears in the genealogies of David and of Jesus Christ. The Hebrew name means "palm tree."

• AdoptionismDoctrine & Theology

  Adoptionism is the Christological view that Jesus was originally an ordinary man who was "adopted" as the Son of God at his baptism or resurrection. Since the early church, orthodox Christianity has rejected it as heretical.

• Genesis 21Bible

  Genesis 21 recounts the birth of Isaac in fulfillment of God's promise, the sending away of Hagar and her son and their rescue in the wilderness, and Abraham's covenant with Abimelech at Beersheba.

• 1 Samuel 2Bible

  1 Samuel 2 records Hannah's song of thanksgiving, the corruption of Eli's two sons, and, in contrast, the growth of the boy Samuel. The chapter closes with a pronouncement of judgment on the house of Eli.

• Lo-debarBible

  Lo-debar was a town in the region of Gilead east of the Jordan River, where Mephibosheth, the son of Jonathan, lived before David summoned him. It appears in 2 Samuel 9 and 17.

• Justinian IPeople

  Justinian I (c. 482–565) was emperor of the Eastern Roman (Byzantine) Empire from 527 to 565. He is known for codifying Roman law and for rebuilding the Hagia Sophia, and the Orthodox Church venerates him as a saint.

• Constantin von TischendorfPeople

  Constantin von Tischendorf (1815–1874) was a nineteenth-century German textual critic of the New Testament. At St. Catherine's Monastery on Mount Sinai he found the Codex Sinaiticus, a fourth-century Greek manuscript of the Bible, and made it known to the world.

• Rudolf BultmannPeople

  Rudolf Bultmann (1884–1976) was a German Lutheran New Testament scholar. His form-critical analysis of the Gospel traditions and his call for the "demythologization" of the New Testament had a major influence on twentieth-century biblical studies and theology, and they proved correspondingly controversial.

• Nicolaus Ludwig von ZinzendorfPeople

  Nicolaus Ludwig von Zinzendorf (1700–1760) was an eighteenth-century German Pietist count. By receiving Moravian refugees on his estate at Herrnhut, he revived the Moravian Church, and he was a leading pioneer of Protestant foreign missions.

• EsarhaddonPeople

  Esarhaddon was a king of Assyria who succeeded Sennacherib after Sennacherib was murdered by his sons. He is mentioned briefly by name in 2 Kings, Isaiah, and Ezra.

• 2 Kings 17Bible

  2 Kings 17 records the fall of Samaria to Assyria and the end of the northern kingdom of Israel under its last king, Hoshea. It explains the reasons for the kingdom's destruction and describes how the foreign peoples resettled in Samaria worshiped the LORD alongside their own gods.

• Genesis 24Bible

  Genesis 24 recounts how Abraham sends his aged servant to his kindred in his homeland to find a wife for his son Isaac, and how the servant meets Rebekah at a well and brings her back to marry Isaac.

• Jeremiah 28Bible

  Jeremiah 28 is the chapter in which Hananiah prophesies that the yoke of Babylon will be broken within two years and breaks Jeremiah's wooden yoke, after which Jeremiah proclaims a yoke of iron and foretells Hananiah's death.

• Jeremiah 20Bible

  Jeremiah 20 recounts how Pashur, the official in charge of the temple, struck Jeremiah and put him in the stocks. It also records the complaint and confession of trust that Jeremiah poured out to God amid his suffering, followed by his lament cursing the day of his birth.

• HivitesBible

  In the Old Testament, the Hivites are presented as descendants of Canaan and as one of the so-called "seven nations" that inhabited the land of Canaan before Israel entered it. The people of Shechem and Gibeon are identified as Hivites.

• Martin Luther King Jr.People

  Martin Luther King Jr. (1929–1968) was an American Baptist minister and a leader of the African American civil rights movement. He led a nonviolent movement to end racial discrimination in the United States and received the Nobel Peace Prize in 1964.

• Fyodor DostoevskyPeople

  Fyodor Dostoevsky (1821–1881) was a Russian novelist and a member of the Russian Orthodox Church. In works such as Crime and Punishment and The Brothers Karamazov, he explored the existence of God, human freedom, suffering, and salvation.

• Jonathan EdwardsPeople

  Jonathan Edwards (1703–1758) was a Congregationalist minister and theologian in colonial British North America. A leading figure of the Great Awakening of the 1740s, he gave a systematic account of revival and of Calvinist theology in works such as A Treatise Concerning Religious Affections.

• John 5:24–25Bible Verses

  A passage in which Jesus declares that whoever hears his word and believes the God who sent him already has eternal life and has passed from death to life. It is frequently cited as a text teaching that eternal life begins now and as a basis for the assurance of salvation.

• Genesis 45:5–8Bible Verses

  In this passage Joseph reveals his identity to the brothers who sold him into slavery and tells them that it was not they but God who sent him to Egypt to preserve life. It is frequently cited as a key text on divine providence.