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... Camarina may be from the Arabic name of the moon qamar, which refers perhaps to the fact that the ancient city was dedicated to the worship of the moon-god. Another argument which has ...
https://bibleatlas.org/leb-kamai.htm
... Camarina may be from the Arabic name of the moon qamar, which refers perhaps to the fact that the ancient city was dedicated to the worship of the moon-god. Another argument which has ...
https://bibleatlas.org/ur.htm
... conquerors of Babylonia, both Sumerian and Semitic, endeavored to subjugate. This points to the fact that the culture of Amurru was then already old. Egyptian inscriptions fully substantiate this. We ...
https://bibleatlas.org/babylonia.htm
... was here that commerce entering the province had to pay the customs dues. Strabo records this fact when he calls Derbe a limen or "customs station." It owed its importance ( ...
https://bibleatlas.org/derbe.htm
... coarse sand (the nefud), gravel and flints in the northern. It is in fact an offshoot from the great African Sahara. Of the southern half little is known, and ...
https://bibleatlas.org/dumah_2.htm
... coarse sand (the nefud), gravel and flints in the northern. It is in fact an offshoot from the great African Sahara. Of the southern half little is known, and ...
https://bibleatlas.org/arabia.htm
... coarse sand (the nefud), gravel and flints in the northern. It is in fact an offshoot from the great African Sahara. Of the southern half little is known, and ...
https://bibleatlas.org/kedar.htm
... three great valleys of Jerusalem. In favor of the eastern or Kidron valley we have the facts that Eusebius and Jerome (Onom) place "Gehennom" under the eastern wall of Jerusalem ...
https://bibleatlas.org/washer's_field.htm
... Eteocretans-the original inhabitants-Pelasgians, Acheans, Cydonians and Dorians), and in modern times to the fact that a large minority of the population has accepted the Ottoman religion along with Ottoman government, ...
https://bibleatlas.org/crete.htm
... : Lystra owed its importance, and the attention which Paul paid to it, to the fact that it had been made a Roman colonia by Augustus (see ANTIOCH), and was ...
https://bibleatlas.org/lystra.htm
... three great valleys of Jerusalem. In favor of the eastern or Kidron valley we have the facts that Eusebius and Jerome (Onom) place "Gehennom" under the eastern wall of Jerusalem ...
https://bibleatlas.org/valley_of_slaughter.htm
... that Sheba was the name of an Arab tribe, and consequently of Semitic descent. The fact that Sheba and Dedan are represented as Cushite ( Genesis 10:7 ) would point to ...
https://bibleatlas.org/sheba.htm
... foundation legends often reflected the sympathies and wishes of a city's later population rather than the historic facts of its origin. At Anchiale, about 12 miles Southeast of Tarsus, was a monument ...
https://bibleatlas.org/tarsus.htm
... etc.) . In accordance with Paul's habitual usage of such terms, together with the fact that he employs a Greek form which is a transliteration of the Latin Illyricum but does not ...
https://bibleatlas.org/illyricum.htm
... foundation legends often reflected the sympathies and wishes of a city's later population rather than the historic facts of its origin. At Anchiale, about 12 miles Southeast of Tarsus, was a monument ...
https://bibleatlas.org/kue.htm
... three centuries earlier (Bliss, Mound of Many Cities) . The identification rests upon the fact that the site corresponds with the Biblical and other historical notices of Lachish, and especially upon ...
https://bibleatlas.org/mizpeh_2.htm
... , the connection of Shinar with that name is doubtful. The principal difficulty lies in the fact that what might be regarded as the non-dialectical form singar (which would alone furnish a satisfactory ...
https://bibleatlas.org/shinar.htm
... three centuries earlier (Bliss, Mound of Many Cities) . The identification rests upon the fact that the site corresponds with the Biblical and other historical notices of Lachish, and especially upon ...
https://bibleatlas.org/lachish.htm
... by the conqueror. That this was not done in a thoroughgoing way is evident from the fact recorded in the inscriptions that two years later the country had to be subdued again. Colonists ...
https://bibleatlas.org/harmon.htm
... three great valleys of Jerusalem. In favor of the eastern or Kidron valley we have the facts that Eusebius and Jerome (Onom) place "Gehennom" under the eastern wall of Jerusalem ...
https://bibleatlas.org/valley_of_hinnom.htm
... some of them of the highest importance. 2. Difficulties of That Identification: Besides the fact that the deities of the two cities, Sippar and Sepharvaim, are not the same, ...
https://bibleatlas.org/sepharvaim.htm
... Ramsay, The Church in the Roman Empire, 25); and is supported by the fact that Phrygian inscriptions (the surest sign of the presence of a Phrygian population, for only ...
https://bibleatlas.org/pisidian_antioch.htm
... cannot say; her name suggests the possibility that she was a freedwoman, while from the fact that we hear of her household and her house ( Acts 16:15 ; compare 16 ...
https://bibleatlas.org/philippi.htm
... the worship of the synagogue was the only worship of the God of their fathers. These facts are rendered still more striking when we regard them as a fulfillment of Isaiah's prophecy: " ...
https://bibleatlas.org/dispersion.htm
... , the temple being merely a royal chapel attached to the palace. The king, in fact, was the commander of an army, and this army was the Assyrian people. How ...
https://bibleatlas.org/assyria.htm
