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Aram-naharaim
[Bible]Aram-naharaim, meaning "Aram of the two rivers," is an Old Testament place name. It is generally understood to refer to northern Mesopotamia along the upper Euphrates, particularly the region around Haran. Following the Septuagint, many translations render it as "Mesopotamia" in most of its occurrences.
Targum
[Bible]A Targum is one of the ancient Jewish translations and paraphrases of the Hebrew Old Testament into Aramaic. The Targums are generally understood to have originated as oral explanations given when Scripture was read aloud in the synagogue.
Leningrad Codex
[Bible]The Leningrad Codex is a manuscript of the Hebrew Old Testament copied around 1008 or 1009. It is known as the oldest surviving manuscript of the Masoretic Text that preserves the entire Old Testament, and it is the base text of modern critical editions of the Hebrew Bible.
Targum
[Bible]The Targum is a body of Jewish literature that translates and paraphrases the Hebrew Old Testament into Aramaic. It arose from the post-exilic synagogue practice of reading the Hebrew text aloud and then rendering it orally into Aramaic.
2 Chronicles
[Bible]Second Chronicles is the fourteenth of the thirty-nine books of the Protestant Old Testament. Centered on the temple and worship, it records events from the reign of Solomon to the fall of the kingdom of Judah and the decree of the Persian king Cyrus permitting the return from exile.
Suffering Servant
[Bible]The Suffering Servant is the "servant of the Lord" in the "Servant Songs" of Isaiah, who suffers and bears the transgressions of others. The New Testament reads this servant in connection with Jesus Christ.
Jeremiah 31:31–33
[Bible Verses]God's promise to make a new covenant with Israel and Judah and to write his law on their hearts. It is the principal Old Testament passage in which the phrase "new covenant" appears. The New Testament presents this promise as fulfilled in Christ, and the passage stands at the center of debates among theological systems over the relationship between the church and Israel.
Servant Songs
[Bible]"Servant Songs" is a scholarly term for four poems in Isaiah 40–55 concerning "the servant of the LORD." They are found in Isaiah 42, 49, 50, and 52:13–53:12, and the New Testament applies them to Jesus Christ.
Park Yune-sun
[People]Park Yune-sun (1905–1988), whose pen name was Jeongam (正岩), was a Presbyterian minister and theologian. He was the first Korean to complete and publish a commentary on the entire Old and New Testaments, and he taught Reformed theology at Koryo Theological Seminary, Chongshin, and Hapdong Theological Seminary.
Pearl
[Bible]A pearl is a round gem formed inside a mollusk. In the Bible it denotes something of great value, and it is best known from the New Testament parable of the pearl of great price and from the pearly gates of the New Jerusalem.
Cyrene
[Bible]Cyrene was a Greek city on the northeastern coast of present-day Libya in North Africa. In the New Testament it appears as the hometown of Simon, who carried the cross for Jesus, and as the place of origin of early Christian evangelists who preached the gospel to Gentiles in Antioch.
Psalm 33:6
[Bible Verses]A verse from the hymn of praise in Psalm 33 that celebrates the heavens and all their host as made by the word of the LORD and the breath of His mouth. It is a key text for creation by the word, and in church tradition it is also frequently cited in support of a Trinitarian understanding of creation.
Malachi 4
[Bible]Malachi 4 is the final chapter of the Book of Malachi. It describes the day of the LORD, which will burn up the wicked and heal those who fear Him, urges the people to remember the law of Moses, and promises that Elijah will be sent before that day.
Isaiah 49:1
[Bible Verses]Isaiah 49:1 opens the second "Servant Song" in the Book of Isaiah. In it the Servant of the LORD declares to distant peoples that he was called before his birth. The verse is frequently cited and discussed, especially regarding the identity of the Servant and whether the verse may be applied to an individual's calling.
Raising of Jairus's Daughter
[Bible]The raising of Jairus's daughter is the miracle in which Jesus restored to life the twelve-year-old daughter of Jairus, a ruler of the synagogue, after she had died. The account appears in the Gospels of Matthew, Mark, and Luke.
High Priest
[Bible]The high priest held the foremost position among the priests of Old Testament Israel, an office whose holder entered the Most Holy Place on the Day of Atonement to make atonement for the people. The New Testament Epistle to the Hebrews presents Jesus Christ as the eternal High Priest.
Cornerstone
[Bible]A cornerstone is an important stone set at the corner of a building to align its walls and stabilize its structure. It appears in Psalm 118 and Isaiah 28, and the New Testament takes up the image as a reference to Jesus Christ.
Clean and Unclean
[Bible]Clean and unclean is the distinction in Old Testament law that determined whether persons, animals, or objects were in a fit state to approach God and take part in worship. The New Testament carries this distinction forward in terms of purity of heart and the cleansing accomplished through Christ.
Idumea
[Bible]Idumea is the Greek name for the region south of Judea where the Edomites of old migrated and settled. In the Bible it appears in Mark 3:8 as one of the places from which crowds came to Jesus.
Ecclesiastes 12
[Bible]The final chapter of Ecclesiastes urges readers to remember their Creator in the days of youth, before old age and death arrive. It closes the book with the conclusion that fearing God and keeping His commandments is the whole duty of man.