The Contours of the Land in Israel's History
The Land of Palestine
The land of Palestine took its name from the Philistines (the Pelishtim in Hebrew) who settled along the Mediterranean coast from Joppa to Gaza about 1300–12...
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How Jesus’ Murder-Is-Wrong Ethic Is Deeper than Atheists' Ethic
For the past few months, my pastor has been preaching the Ten Commandments. Though the first four gave me pause, causing me to consider my s...
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3 Keys to Help Doubters Make Sense of the Ten Commandments
The greatest cultural icon of the West isn’t American (Declaration of Independence). It isn’t British (Magna Carta) or French (The Social Co...
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Hebrew and You with Lee M. Fields — The Ten Commandments: Permanent No-No’s
This post is on one simple point: the prohibitions in the Ten Commandments. I begin by analyzing some English grammar, then some Hebrew gram...
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The Ten Commandments . . . in Context
When the Law stele of Hammurabi and other collections of legal sayings from the ancient world were found, it was noticed that there were pa...
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