[Faith-talk] Bible history and living

[Ashley Bramlett]

Hi,
Thanks. Its unclear to me where some of our Bible events/people were.
Is the Old testament more around Egypt and Israel? I know Moses took his 
people from Pharoah's Egypt to the Promised land of Israel.
Where did Moses read the ten commandments? Some mountain?
Where did Abraham live with Isaac? He took his son to the altar to be 
sacrificed, before God told him to stop.
It references Canon / Cannonites in the Old testament; I think in the Exodus 
and Levitigus chapters.
Who are they?
I know Hebrew is a language; and Jewish people still learn some basics in 
their school.
The only Hebrew word I know is Hello.

When refering to a people, are those the people near Israel?
Rex, sometimes I don't know  what specifics I'm looking for so I might look 
at the
letters of the alphabet and see what it says under them.

Since I'm not sure what key words to use, other than something like Ancient 
Israel or Ancient Egypt, I couldn't easily just use google.

Thanks, and if you have time to
get the specific link to Bible customs, let me know. Internet browsing is 
useful, but time consuming especially with a screen reader.
I've wanted to know about Israel culture, not only for today's conflicts, 
but because its in the Bible. and what is that place like?
So that culture of Israel one should be real enlighting.

Ashley


-----Original Message----- 
From: Rex Leslie Howard, Jr.
Sent: Wednesday, November 16, 2011 3:12 PM
To: 'Faith-talk,for the discussion of faith and religion'
Subject: Re: [Faith-talk] Bible history and living

Ashley, Here are a couple of links to get you started.
http://en.wikibooks.org/wiki/Wikijunior:Ancient_Civilizations/Hebrews

That should be an interesting read for you. I am sure there is a book in the
Wikibooks site that is specific to bible history and customs and I will try
to find it for you in the next day or so.
Here is a link to a "Culture of Israel" page:
http://www.everyculture.com/Ge-It/Israel.html

Here is a link to the history sourcebooks project which contains information
about ancient history to modern history. It is quite extensive:
http://www.fordham.edu/halsall

There's a lot of information about this kind of stuff and some of it can be
found on the www.studylight.org page.

My recommendation about www.studylight.org is that you set aside a few hours
just to play around with that site and see what you like. There is more
there than you may ever need and the information can be overwhelming.

Yes, the Encyclopedias are searchable but not by keywords. You really need
to know the term that you're searching for. There is a list of alphabetical
links which will let you browse by letter of the alphabet. There is the
International Standard bible Encyclopedia and there is also the condensed
Encyclopedia.

Also the Lutherans have an encyclopedia called ChristianCyclopedia. It can
be found here:
http://cyclopedia.lcms.org/
Here is a link to the Catholic Encyclopedia which is also quite extensive:
http://www.newadvent.org/cathen/

And if that isn't enough, here is the link to the mother of all religious
Encyclopedias:
www.jewishencyclopedia.com

Again, I will try to find something more specific to your needs but it might
be tomorrow before I can.



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