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Joshua, Judges, Ruth, 1 & 2 Samuel: Zondervan Illustrated Bible Backgrounds Commentary (Old Testament), Volume 2 is unavailable, but you can change that!

This series brings to life the world of the Old Testament through informative entries and full-color photos and graphics. Here readers find the premier commentary set for connecting with the historical and cultural context of the Old Testament. Many today find the Old Testament a closed book. The cultural issues seem insurmountable and we are easily baffled by that which seems obscure....

Flax hung out to dry ▲ Cholticha Adhakulawat ► Prostitutes and Inns In the second millennium B.C. the West Semitic world and that of its Hittite neighbors to the north associated innkeepers with prostitutes. In the first millennium this seems to have changed, perhaps due to sociological changes brought about by developments in the brewing of alcohol.A-1 The role of the prostitute as innkeeper is attested in the eighteenth-century Laws of Hammurabi (§109): “If there should be a woman innkeeper in
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