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Salamis
[Bible]Salamis was a port city on the eastern coast of the Mediterranean island of Cyprus, where Paul and Barnabas first preached the gospel on their first missionary journey (Acts 13:5).
Parchment
[Bible]Parchment is a writing material made by preparing the skins of animals such as sheep, goats, and calves into thin sheets. In the Bible it appears in 2 Timothy 4:13 as one of the items Paul asked Timothy to bring him.
George Whitefield
[People]George Whitefield (1714–1770) was a priest of the Church of England and an itinerant preacher. He is regarded as one of the figures who sparked the eighteenth-century Great Awakening through his open-air preaching in Britain and the North American colonies, and he was a leader of Calvinistic Methodism.
Genesis 42
[Bible]During a famine, Joseph's ten older brothers travel to Egypt to buy grain and bow before Joseph, who has become governor of the land. Accused of being spies, they return home, leaving Simeon behind as a hostage.
Psalm 25
[Bible]Psalm 25 is a prayer psalm of twenty-two verses whose superscription attributes it to David. It asks God for protection from enemies and from shame, for instruction in his ways, and for the forgiveness of sins. The Hebrew original is known as an acrostic poem that follows the order of the alphabet.
Taizé Worship
[Doctrine & Theology]Taizé worship is a form of prayer that originated in the Taizé Community in France. It is a meditative form of worship built around short, repeated songs, Scripture readings, and extended silence, and it is known as prayer offered together across denominational lines.
Psalm 69
[Bible]Psalm 69 is a lament in which the psalmist cries out to God for deliverance from suffering, as though sinking in deep waters and mire. It moves through imprecations against his enemies to a vow of praise, and the New Testament frequently cites it when speaking of the sufferings of Christ.
Idol
[Bible]An idol is an image of a deity made to be worshiped in place of God or to represent God, or any object treated in that way. Scripture forbids making and worshiping idols, beginning with the Ten Commandments.
Teman (son of Eliphaz)
[People]Teman was a son of Eliphaz, the firstborn of Esau, and one of the chiefs of the Edomites. His name is also used for a region in the land of Edom and for its people.
Adad-guppi
[People]Adad-guppi (7th–6th centuries BC) was the mother of Nabonidus, the last king of the Neo-Babylonian Empire. She is said to have served the moon god Sîn at Harran and is known from the Harran inscription, which recounts her life in the first person.
1 Corinthians 15:28
[Bible Verses]A verse in 1 Corinthians 15, the chapter on the resurrection and the last things, stating that after all things have been subjected to the Son, the Son himself will also be subject to the Father, "that God may be all in all." It has been cited frequently in Trinitarian and Christological debates.
1 Corinthians 15:22–26
[Bible Verses]A passage in which Paul contrasts Adam with Christ to set out the order of the resurrection and to declare that death will be destroyed at the last. It is frequently discussed in debates over the millennium and in interpreting the statement that Christ "shall have delivered up the kingdom to God, even the Father," and it is often cited in Easter and funeral sermons.
Havilah
[Bible]Havilah is both a place name and a personal name in the Old Testament. It first appears as the gold-bearing land encompassed by the Pison, one of the rivers of the Garden of Eden, and the same name also occurs in the genealogy of Noah's descendants.
Ketiv and Qere
[Bible]Ketiv and qere are a Masoretic notation system marking places in manuscripts of the Hebrew Old Testament where what is written (ketiv) differs from what is read (qere).
Psalm 63
[Bible]Psalm 63 is an eleven-verse prayer psalm whose superscription attributes it to David when he was in the wilderness of Judah. In it the psalmist thirsts for God in a dry land and confesses that God's lovingkindness is better than life.
Susannah Spurgeon
[People]Susannah Spurgeon (1832–1903) was a Christian author and the wife of the English Baptist preacher Charles Spurgeon. In 1875 she founded the Book Fund, which sent theological books to ministers of limited means.
Constantin von Tischendorf
[People]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.
Isaiah 59:20–21
[Bible Verses]These verses conclude Isaiah 59, a chapter that indicts Israel for its sins. They promise that a Redeemer will come to those who turn from transgression, and they announce a covenant in which God's Spirit and words will not depart from them through the generations. The passage is frequently discussed because Paul quotes it in Romans 11 when he speaks of the salvation of "all Israel."
1 Samuel 16:11–13
[Bible Verses]This passage recounts how Samuel anointed David, the youngest son of Jesse, and how the Spirit of the LORD came upon David from that day forward. It marks the turning point at which kingship passes from Saul to David and is frequently cited in discussions of divine election and the presence of the Holy Spirit.
Joachim Jeremias
[People]Joachim Jeremias (1900–1979) was a German Lutheran New Testament scholar. He studied the parables of Jesus, the words of institution of the Lord's Supper, and Jesus' use of the address "Abba," and he exerted a lasting influence on the interpretation of the parables.