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Bookmark or Share- Jacob in the Bible - Biblical Archaeology SocietyAlso it was the women who first noticed the body of Jesus missing from the tomb (Luke 24:1-11). So when we read in Exodus 6:3 that Yahweh had formerly manifested Himself to Abraham, Isaac and Jacob as “El Shaddai,” which refers to the diety worshipped by Israel’s ancestors to the northeast beyond the Euphrates River.
- Which Altar Was the Right One in Ancient Israelite Religion?Read descriptions of hurried building of altars for at-the-moment sacrifices (e. g. Genesis 22:9, Abraham building the altar to sacrifice Isaac). Not a word about dressing stones or sculpting horns. There is also the command to use earth or natural, not hewn, stones (Ex. 24-25) to build an altar, and the place is that of a people on the move.
- The Story of Ruth - Biblical Archaeology SocietyWhen they return they find the God of Abraham, Isaac and Jacob welcomes them both with open arms. through the grace extended by the community of faith, and God’s provision of a Kinsman Redeemer, God’s grace redeems all that was lost to unbelief, when Ruth marries Boaz. King David is a descendant of their offspring.
- Jews and Arabs Descended from CanaanitesIsaac’s wife and Jacob’s wives were also Chaldee. Though it is truly Jacob and his wives that create the DNA that we can call Hebrew and thus Judean or Jew, since it is at this point where we now have a pure bred data point for DNA studies, since per the law, all marriages were to be contained in this DNA pool.
- The Binding or Sacrifice of Isaac - Biblical Archaeology SocietyIsaac, like Jesus, was miraculously conceived. (Sarah, Isaac’s mother, was 90 years old when she bore Isaac and had been barren all her life; Abraham was a hundred [Genesis 17:17].) Isaac was his father’s beloved son. Isaac carried the wood for his own sacrifice (Genesis 22:6), just as Christ carried his own cross.
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