Tag: Bible
The Book of Joshua (Third part)

The most favorable political and social context at the beginning of deuteronomic literary activity is the age of Josiah. Like Deuteronomy, so the first edition of Joshua is probably functional to the political intentions of Josiah. The stories of conquests were therefore instrumental to the affirmation of Juda’s political and…
The Composition of the Historical Books. From Joshua to 2 Kings (Third part)

The multiplication of dtr editors has made many scholars skeptical about the very existence of deuteronomic history. The problem is essentially the concept of “historiography” and the coherence of the dtr work. The “dtr” history can not be termed in any way, since it still belongs to the mythical genus…
God is Mother!
Heaven and earth (Genesis chap. 1, verse. 1)
Elohim: God or gods? (Genesis chap. 1, verse 1)
Barà (Genesis chap. 1, verse 1)
Churches in the Biblical city of Laodicea

One of the Seven Churches mentioned in the book of Revelation, the Church in the ancient city of Laodicea, have been opened to tourism. The archaeologist Celal Simsek has conducted works in a church that is a very special structure with wall coverings, wall paintings and geometrical mosaics. “People used to visit…
This week’s news commented by Simone Venturini (October 12-15, 2015)

A King James Bible’s translator notebook! The American scholar Jeffrey Miller has found the notebook of Samuel Ward on of the 42 translators that worked at the King James Version in the seventeenth century. It is a very important discovery because it gives us precious informations about the copying process…