[Faith-talk] Bible history and living

[Ashley Bramlett]

Rex,
The wikibooks site is huge; not sure why I haven't seen it in my research 
before. Yep there is probably something
on bible history there, but it is not obvious from skimming.

The  wikibooks page was pretty helpful, although there were quite a few 
mistakes; it read like a school report with headings.
But it seemed valid; I've heard some of that info before. I asked where 
Cannon was and what the Cannonites were. A lot of place names are referenced 
in the Old testament, that I have no idea where they are other than the 
Middle east and near Egypt and to complicate things, these places don't all 
exist today.
I also saw lots of good history and culture info on the "culture of Isreal " 
site including food, education, clothes and economy.

I asked about the Cannon name earlier.
The site explained
Hebrews were nomadic people. They lived in the ancient Middle East. Around 
1400 BC they settled in Canaan, the country on the eastern coast of 
Mediterranean sea, the territory of modern Israel, Jordan, Lebanon and 
Syria. Later this country was known as the kingdom of Israel and, after the 
death of King Solomon, was divided into Israel and Judea.

Look forward to any info you have further.

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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