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This updated guide reclaims the stars for the Gospel and Prophecy. This is NOT a book of zodiac, astrology, or horoscopes. The meticulous research into ancient star names and the symbolism in the constellations will have you intrigued and wanting to learn more.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003ch3\u003eAuthor Biography\u003c\/h3\u003e\u003cp\u003eDawnita Fogleman is a fifth generation Oklahoma Panhandle Pioneer. She remembers only ever wanting to be a scientist when she grew up. While she has decided to never grow up, she researches and experiments with her family. Dawnita helps the love of her life manage the family business, small farm, and six amazing, exclusively homeschooled blessings. \"Sometimes I struggle with carrying Bible, coffee, sewing basket, and feed bucket all at the same time so I commit the Bible to my heart, sip my coffee fast, sew every chance I get, delegate chores, and disciple the children along the way.\" On the Fogleman Funny Farm every day is a surprise! 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Coogan\u003c\/b\u003e (Editor)\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eIn this impressive volume, leading scholars offer compelling glimpses into the biblical world, the world in which prophets, poets, sages, and historians created one of our most important texts--the Bible.\u003cbr\u003e For more than a century, archaeologists have been unearthing the tombs, temples, texts, and artifacts of the ancient Near East and the Mediterranean world. Using new approaches, contemporary scholars have begun to synthesize this material with the biblical traditions. \u003cem\u003eThe Oxford History of the Biblical World\u003c\/em\u003e incorporates the best of this scholarship, and in chronologically ordered chapters presents the reader with a readable and integrated study of the history, art, architecture, languages, literatures, and religion of biblical Israel and early Judaism and Christianity in their larger cultural contexts. 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Stott\u003c\/b\u003e (Translator)\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eThis book contains the first study of the musical culture of ancient Israel\/Palestine based primarily on the archaeological record. Noted musicologist Joachim Braun explores the music of the Holy Land region of the Middle East, tracing its form and development from its beginning in the Stone Age to the fourth century A.D. Synopsis An Israeli musicologist (retired, Bar-Ilan U.) provides a first- ever study of the musical culture of ancient Israel\/Palestine based on the archeological record. Also drawing from other sources, Braun discusses the meaning and classification of musical instruments in the Bible and from the Stone Age to the Hellenistic- Roman period. Includes many illustrations of artifacts. Indexed by scriptural reference as well as subject and name. Translated from the German. Annotation c. 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Braun combines significant archaeological findings -- musical instruments, terra cotta and metal figures, etched stone illustrations, mosaics -- with evidence drawn from written (mainly biblical) texts and anthropological, sociological, and linguistic sources.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eThe portrait Braun assembles of this past musical world is both fascinating and innovative, suggesting a reconsideration of many views long accepted by tradition. 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Dever\u003c\/b\u003e (Author)\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eFor centuries the Hebrew Bible has been the fountainhead of the Judeo-Christian tradition. Today, however, the entire biblical tradition, including its historical veracity, is being challenged. Leading this assault is a group of scholars described as the \"minimalist\" or \"revisionist\" school of biblical studies, which charges that the Hebrew Bible is largely pious fiction, that its writers and editors invented \"ancient Israel\" as a piece of late Jewish propaganda in the Hellenistic era. \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eIn this fascinating book noted Syro-Palestinian archaeologist William G. Dever attacks the minimalist position head-on, showing how modern archaeology brilliantly illuminates both life in ancient Palestine and the sacred scriptures as we have them today. 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Leading this assault is a group of scholars described as the \"minimalist\" or \"revisionist\" school of biblical studies, which charges that the Hebrew Bible is largely pious fiction, that its writers and editors invented \"ancient Israel\" as a piece of late Jewish propaganda in the Hellenistic era.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eIn this fascinating book noted Syro-Palestinian archaeologist William G. Dever attacks the minimalist position head-on, showing how modern archaeology brilliantly illuminates both life in ancient Palestine and the sacred scriptures as we have them today. Assembling a wealth of archaeological evidence, Dever builds the clearest, most complete yet of the \"real Israel that existed during the Iron Age of ancient Palestine (1200-600 B.C.).\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eDever's exceptional reconstruction of this key period points up the minimalists' abuse of archaeology and reveals the weakness of their revisionist histories. Dever shows that ancient Israel, far from being an \"invention, \" is a reality to be \"discovered. 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Giving an account of several of their opinions and ceremonies with proper reflections upon each of them; showing which may be retained and which ought to be laid aside. This ancient text is written in Old English and due to its age, some pages may be found to be spotty or faded.This scarce antiquarian book is a facsimile reprint of the old original and may contain some imperfections such as library marks and notations. 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It surfaced not in the category of theology\/eschatology but in measurement\/mensuration (geometric dimensions). It became the #1 best seller outside the bounds of religiosity-however, its greatest contribution to Christianity is its absolute manipulation of the Judeo-Christian use of \"number\" be it in \"times and seasons\" - chronologies, divinely designed objects like Noah's Ark, the Ark of the Covenant, Tabernacles and Temples - eventually, the \"numbers\" demand a \"multidimensional\" comprehension of the Holy City, Jerusalem, such as Ezekiel's Vision of the Holy District and John the Beloved's view of the New Jerusalem; and finally, in the precision of number found in eschatology.You will never read the Book of books again the same way--it will mathematically \u0026amp; dimensionally come alive!\u003c\/p\u003e\u003ch3\u003eAuthor Biography\u003c\/h3\u003e\u003cp\u003eDoug Krieger is the co-author of the controversial blockbuster text, THE FINAL BABYLON, with co-authors S. 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Former elder\/pastor during the Jesus Movement in Berkeley California and is a conference speaker at both prophetic and educational seminars. His expertise is on \"timelines\" and Bible Prophecy, as well as biblical numbers and how they relate to the Neolithic Earth and to the Dimensions of Paradise. Doug is currently involved with Urban Hope Christian Alliance in Sacramento, California and was the co-editor of The Tribulation Network for the past 12 years where his articles still appear. Likewise, World Mysteries is one of the many sites which carry his material. Doug is now the editor of TRIBNET.ORG which is also a major blog on the aforementioned topics. Doug also speaks on the ramifications of the geopolitical world as it pertains to Bible Prophecy and the \"Time of the End.\" A new text, THE 12 WARS OF HEAVEN AND EARTH will be released in 2015-16 and will continue to highlight the themes echoed in his other publications. 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