Samson? Is his hair long enough?
Lots of fuss about this ancient seal, which just happens to coincide with Lifeway’s Explore the Bible Sunday School lesson on Samson: People are saying everything from “this reminds one of […]
Monthly Archives: July 2012
July 27…1214: The Battle of Bouvines
One of the major battles of the Middle Ages, featuring troops from most of Europe on one side or the other, Bouvines ended English King John’s attempts to regain his lost […]
Book of Judges Chapter 13:24-25; 16:4-5,15-17, 19-20, 28-30 Antique Commentary Quotes
ISBE Samson sam´sun (שׁמשׁון, shimshōn). 1. Name: Derived probably from שׁמשׁ, shemesh, “sun” with the diminutive ending ון-, -on, meaning “little sun” or “sunny,” or perhaps “sun-man”; Σαμψών, Sampsṓn; Latin […]
Apocrypha/Deuterocanonicals Commentaries on PrePub at Logos
I’ve bemoaned the cost and rarity of biblical commentaries on the Apocrypha/ Deuterocanonicals more than once, so I should mention that Logos Bible Software is offering a prepublication “get in […]
Two More from BibleSupport.com
Yet more bible study modules for eSword : Bible commentary (1801-1803) from Methodist founder Thomas Coke And one topic file I particularly like, though a commentary version would be the bee’s knees: […]
July 22…1298: Battle of Falkirk
This was the battle that ended the major career of William Wallace as Guardian of Scotland. The Scots formed their tightly packed spear squares, called schiltrons, with their own archers […]
July 21… 1403 The Battle of Shrewsbury
Made immortal by Shakespeare, this battle doesn’t get a lot of coverage in my medieval warfare books. It was fought between the forces of Henry IV and Henry “Hotspur” Percy, […]
Book of Judges 9:1-9, 14-15, 56-57 Antique Commentary Quotes
John Kitto Abim´elech (father of the king, or perhaps royal father) a son of Gideon, by a concubine-wife, a native of Shechem, where her family had considerable influence. Through that […]
Yesterday at the Bargain Tables
Brief History of the Tudor Age Brief History of Khublai Khan
Book of Judges 6,7: Gideon Defeats Midianites at Spring of Harod
From Battles of the Bible: From Battles of the Bible:
