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This detailed handbook of the Biblical World presents the reader with a review of the ancient world, from the Fourth Millennium BCE up through the Bar Kochba Revolt of 132–135 CE. It is a detailed backdrop to the Holy Scriptures and reviews all the major Empires and salient events which bear so heavily upon an understanding of the Biblical world. This Handbook—a masterpiece of scholarship—is a...

THE SOUTHERN LEVANT IN THE TIME OF JESUS We will not review the many and varied solutions that have been proposed. We venture here only two observations about the language of the verse that may assist towards narrowing Matthew’s possible intent. First, the “o” in the second syllable of naẓoraios indicates that the Hebrew word behind our Greek term was natzor, i.e. one kept, protected, and not netzer (branch) or nazir (Nazirite). Second,
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