[Faith-talk] Bible history and living

[Joshua Lester]

If you have some usable sight, you could get a large print Bible, and
look at the maps, for locations.
Blessings, Joshua

On 11/16/11, Ashley Bramlett <bookwormahb at earthlink.net> wrote:
> 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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