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Free Bible study video series: Manners & Customs Used in Scripture
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An Overview of Manners & Customs in the Bible; Gird Up the Loins of Your Mind, 1 Peter 1:13; Oil lamps (lights) in the Biblical World
We are planning on adding 3 or 4 videos to this article each week.
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The Synagogue, history, origin, what the name means, officials, service, uses
(426 Reads)
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The Name Synagogue, Origins of the Synagogue, The Synagogue Building, The Officials of the Synagogue, The Synagogue Service, and Other Uses of the Synagogue
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The Patron-Client Relationship in the Ancient Biblical World [Culture]
(1256 Reads)
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One of the most difficult aspects of Bible study is understanding the text in the way that a person living at the time the Bible was written would understand it. We can use the model of a stage play to teach us how to better interpret the Bible. Let’s say we travel to England to see Romeo and Juliet by Shakespeare, played, not in American English with modern phrases and modern adaptations...
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Why Read a Bible Manners and Customs Book? Understanding Biblical Times
(1527 Reads)
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How intimate can we become with Abraham and Sarah, Moses and Zipporah, David and Bathsheba, Ahasuerus and Esther, or Zachariah and Elizabeth, if we do not know what they wore, what they ate, how they traveled, what they knew of the world, or what they did in their day-to-day lives? The people in the Bible ate and drank, laughed and worried, had weddings and funerals, had children that made them proud and children that disappointed them, and had dreams and broken dreams just as we do in our lives. The biblical characters that we know and love...
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Understanding the History and Role of Religion in the Bible and Eastern life
(1240 Reads)
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Religion is the great fact of Eastern life. “…of him, and through him, and to him, are all things…” (Rom. 11:36)—this is the acclamation of everything that lives in the East. Christianity, Judaism, and Islam have many deep distinctions, but they are all one with the regard to the existence and power of God. In the East, to be without religion is not an intellectual viewpoint, it is a moral void. Skepticism is still regarded as the self-defense of a disobedient heart (Ps. 14:1). To try to prove or to deny the existence of God...
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Eastern Villages in the Bible. Built with thick, high walls and fortified gates
(1116 Reads)
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Thick, high walls and fortified gates do not pose much of a deterrent to modern armies, but in the biblical era they were very effective, even against large, well equipped armies. For example, it took the Assyrians three years to break into the city of Samaria (2 Kings 17:5). Walls and gates came into biblical language as figures of strength and protection. Because David and his troops protected the shepherds in southern Israel from bandits and raiders, the shepherds said that, “They were a wall unto us both by night and day, all the while we were with them keeping the sheep” (1 Sam. 25:16). The strength of a wall gave a city confidence and independence...
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Family Life [Customs] in the Bible. Biblical Look at Birth, Marriage, and Death
(2997 Reads)
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The leading and distinguishing feature of Eastern family life is the preference of sons over daughters. This, of course, is a result of the demands of society rather than of domestic affection. The lack of public law and justice made the family unit an important alliance. The family is a union of common interests, not merely for the cultivation of truth, obedience, and loving self-sacrifice, but for defense, marriage alliances, mercantile enterprises, and social advancement generally...
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Home Life in the Bible. A Biblical Look at their Tents, Houses, and Bedding
(1715 Reads)
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As in other lands, one’s home is a place of privacy and protection against cold, but in the East it is also, and very importantly, a place of shelter from the heat. There are traces here and there of the caves in which prehistoric man dwelt, and shepherds take their sheep to similar caves; they were the retreats of fugitives in times of oppression in Israel, and at the present day...
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Pottery in the Bible. Its usefulness, The Wheel, The baking, Clay bricks...
(1442 Reads)
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In the East the fragility of the pottery, the expensiveness of copper vessels, and the unsuitableness of leather bottles for many of the requirements of town and village life, creates a large and constant demand for the potter’s goods. Earthenware jars are also preferred for holding drinking water, because the evaporation from the porous substance helps to keep the water cool. In the warm East it is a point of courtesy to...
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Day Laborers in the Bible. Matthew 20:12 Deuteronomy 24:14 and 15
(1021 Reads)
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Every Eastern town has a well-known place where men congregate at dawn and wait to be engaged in manual labor for the day. Such labor includes gardening, ditching, repairing walls, whitewashing, and lifting and carrying burdens...
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Landscapes in the Bible with pictures of the Jordan River and Sea of Galilee
(1171 Reads)
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When Palestine is seen for the first time, the eye is charmed with the bright distinctness of everything and with the beautiful blue of sea and sky. Then comes a feeling of disappointment as favorite features of beautiful scenery in other lands are looked for in vain. There are no farm houses dotting the landscape; no fields of grass, no horses or cattle grazing at liberty; no forests are visible; the lakes lie low in the Jordan Valley; the rivers are small, and the brooks are dry in summer. Where are the cedars, vines, fig trees, and the beauty of the olive? Is this the Promised Land? Was this the inheritance of the chosen people...
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An explanation of some of the manners and customs of people in biblical times
(1263 Reads)
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In Palestine and Syria there are a great many things that are the same as those alluded to in the Bible. In many cases the climate and landscape, the plant and animal life, the habits and occupations of the people, and even their modes of dress and forms of speech are similar to what one would have seen in biblical times. This continuance of unchanged custom for so long a period, is chiefly due to...
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Agricultural Life and Peasants in the Bible. Grain, Sowing, Harvest, Threshing..
(1125 Reads)
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When it is mentioned that French railway cars bringing wheat from the rich plain south of Damascus are now supplanting the camels that used to do it, that an American engineer is sinking Artesian wells at Sidon for irrigating the land, and that every summer English steamers lie off Gaza loading barley for Scotland, the suspicion naturally arises that the farmer of Palestine has left the shepherd behind, and that his life is no longer a reminder of patriarchal methods. But the land is still a land of grain and wine and oil; and the sowing and reaping, the treading of grapes in the wine press, the beating of the olive tree for its olives, these and many other details of peasant life are the same today as when Ruth gleaned and Elisha followed the plow...
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Pastoral Life, Shepherds, Farmers, Their Mutual Relations, Caring for the Flock
(1664 Reads)
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In the Bible the allusions to shepherd life and the figurative terms borrowed from it refer chiefly to its peaceful aspects. A shepherd’s enemies were wild animals and robbers. The chief reason for strife among the shepherds, as among the farmers, was connected with the water supply, i.e., the right of access to wells, springs, and brooks (Gen. 13:7-11, 29:8; Exod. 2:17). Although there were pastoral clans, most villages consisted of some farmers, some herdsmen, and some tradesmen, so the care of the flocks and the work of the field flourished side by side. The local shepherd was a member of the village, and was...
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Bible Manners & Customs. Understanding How the People of the Bible Lived
(1267 Reads)
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Imagine trying to understand modern culture without knowing how we dressed, what we ate, where we lived, and about the jobs that people worked at all day. Under those circumstances it would be easy to misunderstand something we said or did. Yet most people know very little about the daily lives of the thousands of people who fill the pages of the Bible, from Adam and Eve to the Apostle Paul. The Bible becomes much easier to understand...
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