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3121 International Standard Bible Encyclopedia, p. Canaan; Canaanites.36

the foreign language and script, and two of the Tell el-Amarna letters are from a Canaanitish lady. The official notices of the name by which each year was …

3122 International Standard Bible Encyclopedia, p. Canon of the Old Testament, II.22

… is the standard he gives of canonicity, namely, antiquity; because, as he says, since Artaxerxes’ age the succession of prophets had ceased. It was the uniform …

3123 International Standard Bible Encyclopedia, p. Captivity.98

… hundred years," says the late Dr. P. Hay Hunter in After the Exile (I, xvi), "the teaching of Moses was established as the basis of the national life, the first steps …

3124 International Standard Bible Encyclopedia, p. Catechist; Catechumen.6

… twelve years of age had become a child of the law, a catechumen. He increased in wisdom and learned obedience. He became the great Catechist instructing His …

3125 International Standard Bible Encyclopedia, p. Cedar.19

… with age to a deeper tint with a glaucous hue; the foliage is evergreen, the successive annual growths of leaves each lasting two years. The cones, 4 to 6 inches …

3126 International Standard Bible Encyclopedia, p. Chicken.2

the birds have the drooping tail of the wild, and there is no record of the date at which they erected the tail, lifted the head and assumed the upright …

3127 International Standard Bible Encyclopedia, p. Chronology of the New Testament.44

… of the common modes of reckoning the imperial reigns. The mode of reckoning from the assumption of the tribunician power or from the designation as imperator …

3128 International Standard Bible Encyclopedia, p. Chronology of the Old Testament.25

… about the most prominent events, such as the call of Abraham and the age of his famous contemporary Hammurabi, the year of the Exodus, and the beginning of Solomon’s …

3129 International Standard Bible Encyclopedia, p. Chronology of the Old Testament.28

II. The Ages between the Testaments. Between the coming of Christ and the end of Old Testament history there lie in round numbers four hundred years. But while …

3130 International Standard Bible Encyclopedia, p. Chronology of the Old Testament.32

… in the 6th year of Darius, i.e. 516. The building of it, which had been early abandoned for selfish reasons, was resumed in the 2nd year of Darius under the exhortation …

3131 International Standard Bible Encyclopedia, p. Chronology of the Old Testament.40

… be the age of Solomon and the foundation-laying of the Temple. This may be found according to the former method by adding 51 years to the dates as given below …

3132 International Standard Bible Encyclopedia, p. Chronology of the Old Testament.42

… 16 years, not additional to the 16 of the co-regency, as this would result in the absurdity of making him co-regent at the age of 9 years ( 2 Kings 15:33 ). Therefore …

3133 International Standard Bible Encyclopedia, p. Chronology of the Old Testament.43

… those years ( 2 Chronicles 24:25 ). Thus the totals of 146 years for the reigns of the kings of Israel and of 165 for the reigns of the kings of Judah between 721 and …

3134 International Standard Bible Encyclopedia, p. Chronology of the Old Testament.45

… 15 years of age (compare 2 Chronicles 34:3 ). The co-regency for 2 years of Joash and Amaziah ( 2 Chronicles 24:25 ) brings the aggregate years of the reigns of the kings …

3135 International Standard Bible Encyclopedia, p. Chronology of the Old Testament.48

… by the manner in which the brief narratives at the end of the book--the migration of the Danites, the sin and punishment of Benjamin--and the Book of Ruth, bring …

3136 International Standard Bible Encyclopedia, p. Chronology of the Old Testament.52

the age of the Oppression and Exodus, Thothmes III as the Pharaoh of the Oppression, and the years immediately following his death as the time of the Exodus …

3137 International Standard Bible Encyclopedia, p. Chronology of the Old Testament.54

age at the birth of Seth, shows that 1,656 years elapsed from the Creation to the Flood, and 290 years from the Flood to Abraham’s birth, accor ding to the Massoretic …

3138 International Standard Bible Encyclopedia, p. Chronology of the Old Testament.56

… we the slightest indication of the points at which these radical changes of the time-units were made. On the contrary the decrease of man’s years seems to …

3139 International Standard Bible Encyclopedia, p. Chronology of the Old Testament.63

… while the age of man may be greater than the mechanical and exact sum of the Genesis numbers, we should not be deluded into the belief that it is so great as some …

3140 International Standard Bible Encyclopedia, p. Commentaries, Hebrew.62

Zohar (the "Bible of the Kabbalists"), the book of all others in the Middle Ages that dominated the thinking and feeling of the Jews for almost 500 years, and …