The Epic of Esau
ONE OF the most enigmatic characters in the Bible is a man who literally sold his birthright for a bowl of beans.Continue Reading
ONE OF the most enigmatic characters in the Bible is a man who literally sold his birthright for a bowl of beans.Continue Reading
Inscriptions from Egyptian sites prove that Joseph did what the Bible claims. What’s more, there are texts that mention his sons, Ephraim and Manasseh.Continue Reading
Scholars have known for a long time that northern Egypt was ruled by “Asiatics” called the Hyksos for about a hundred years during the Old Testament period. What was the relationship between these rulers and the Hebrews?Continue Reading
Proof of the patriarchs Jacob, Joseph, and Moses has been staring experts in the face for years, but it’s been misunderstood—until now.Continue Reading
Contrary to what we’ve been taught, there is hard evidence of the Israelite sojourn in Egypt.Continue Reading
THE DESTRUCTION of ancient Sodom, which is in the news thanks to a new academic paper, is connected to the promise God made to Abraham and to the battle of Armageddon.Continue Reading
ISRAEL SPENT 430 years in Egypt. This is recorded in Exodus 12:40-41 and Galatians 3:17. How do we reconcile that with God’s promise to Abraham that his descendants would return “in the fourth generation” (Gen. 15:16), or the four generations between Levi and Moses (Ex. 6:16-20)?
JACOB WAS buried at the Cave of Machpelah in Hebron. So, why did Joseph and his brothers take his body all the way around the other side of the Dead Sea and mourn for seven days at a threshing floor in the ruined city of Sodom?
JACOB’S STORY comes to a close this week. He lived for seventeen years in Egypt, long enough to see Joseph use the foreknowledge given by God to concentrate power in the hands of the pharaoh (and the same number of years Joseph lived before he was sold into slavery by his brothers).
JOSEPH FINALLY reveals himself to his brothers, unable to continue his deception any longer. His brothers had returned to Egypt to buy more grain, bringing Joseph’s only full brother, Benjamin, with them as he’d ordered.
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