Tarshish is a far harbor in the Bible, and Ophir is a land of gold.
Tarshish enters the Bible as a person.
Islands mentioned in the Bible shows why that matters for geography.
Islands mentioned in the Bible
The Bible and the Quran are full of them, and in my research they keep showing up at the same turning points: just after a covenant, just before a flood, or when a king decides to clean house.
At many periods of history the line between Revelation and Imagination has been cut away, and all the records of the grandest history of earth, the Bible, have been lightly put down to the latter.
Imagination could not have compiled a history that every discovery proves, and after every great attack the Bible remains the same and triumphant.
Gladstone, referring to the tablets of Berosus, ..." the Bible story, more sparing in its details, but far broader and more direct in the terrible lesson it conveys, may reasonably have been judged to have come down from the source with the smallest amount of variation in essentials from the original.
The Bible, economic of facts, appears to be almost solely the history, not altogether, as has been stated, of the race of Adam, but of the Hebrew race ; and I think that in considering archaic man, we are too prone to place undue importance on the Israelites being sprung direct from Adam without any evolution from a pre- race.
Daughters are not mentioned in the early genealogies of the Bible except in a bare statement that they were born to the patriarchs, and with the exception of the sister of Tubal-Cain, (Gen, iv.
Reckoning by cycles, as among the Chinese, the Saros of the Chaldeans, the Olympiad of the Greeks, the* Indiction of the Romans" is an old form of chronology, and "it suffices, therefore, to point out that the so-called era of the world is a purely conventional and arbitrary epoch." The systems of solar and lunar chronology and reckoning by epochs is very misleading, and the early chronology of the Bible cannot be reckoned in years of time — the evening and morning periods of Genesis are grand in their sublime idea of an uncounted time of awakening.
The Bible statements are clear.
Arnold says, " It will be quite as easy to imagine the English Bible to have resulted from the accidental shuffling together of type, paper, and ink, the great book coming forth self-made, after myriads of failures, in its present perfection as it can possibly be to assume that certain structures are the fortuitous production of nature or matter."
The origin of Nimrod and The Bible: Blend and unify 'the Gods' into One both bring in Nisroch; the Nimrod page tells how Sennacherib was assassinated by his sons Adrammelech and Sharezer in the temple of Nisroch, likely a scribal error for Nimrod.
The Bible: Blend and unify 'the Gods' into One
On The Bible: Blend and unify 'the Gods' into One Hagar, pregnant and fleeing from Sarai's harsh treatment, meets God near a spring and gives Him a name.
On First Book of God the Oahspe Bible tells the same story: Sarai was barren and prayed to God for Abraham's sake, and when Hagar bore Ishmael, Sarai was jealous of her.
The Bible: Blend and unify 'the Gods' into One
On Genesis contains a history of Atlantis he pairs "all was a plain without hill or elevation" from the Indian legend with the Bible's plain in the land of Shinar, and notes that both builders used brick.
On The Bible: Blend and unify 'the Gods' into One Marduk, the chief god of Babylon, is the god often called Bel in the Bible, and on Nebo/Nabu, God of Wisdom and Writing in Ancient Mesopotamia Isaiah 46:1 names Nebo alongside Bel in its critique of idolatry.
The Bible: Blend and unify 'the Gods' into One
Mauro Biglino, on Angels & Flying Machines in The Bible & Ancient Text, reads the celestial chariots of the Iliad, drawn by horses that make noise as they fly and cover great distances in an instant, as a concept that parallels descriptions found in the Bible.
Angels & Flying Machines in The Bible & Ancient Text
On Aea, Mythical Land of Early Hellenic Lore King Aeëtes, who ruled the land of the Golden Fleece, is a son of Helios, and on Islands mentioned in the Bible I note that Rhodes is often associated with him.
Islands mentioned in the Bible
On Atlantis in the Holy Bible?
Atlantis in the Holy Bible?
Oahspe, published in 1882, was received by John Ballou Newbrough through automatic writing, as I explain on The Oahspe Bible - received the content through automatic writing.
The table on Timeline OAHSPE Bible sets the start of Kosmon at 1848 CE, in its 33rd year in 1881, while Cycles of Gods ties its start to the transcription of Oahspe in 1880 to 1882 and reads it as a shift toward global spiritual unity.
The Oahspe Bible - received the content through automatic writing
Timeline OAHSPE Bible
El Shaddai, or simply Shaddai, is one of the oldest names for God in the Hebrew Bible.
Most English Bibles turn it into "God Almighty" or "the Almighty", and that translation hides a question I keep returning to across this site: who was the being behind the name?
On The Bible: Blend and unify 'the Gods' into One I quote Paul Wallis:
In Uncovered Beings of The Bible - Documentary Wallis argues that names like Elohim, El Shaddai and Yahweh should be left untranslated, so readers can see how each being behaves in the stories.
The Bible: Blend and unify 'the Gods' into One
The Bible spends chapter after chapter on its curtains, frames and gold, and the pages on this site read those chapters in very different ways: as a dwelling for the glory of the LORD, as a heavily guarded workplace for the Levites, and in the Oahspe as a base through which light from a heavenly place reached Moses.
The Old Testament - The Hebrew Bible sums up the book as detailing the construction of the Tabernacle as a place of worship.
The Hierarchy of YHWH reads the same verses in the World English Bible and notes that the same thing happens again at Solomon's temple.
The Moabites live on the edge of the Bible's story, east of the Jordan, always next to Israel and never quite part of it.
He was the national god of the Moabites, associated with war and destruction, and The Bible: Blend and unify 'the Gods' into One links him with child sacrifice.
The video Gods of the Bible makes the same point about Chemosh of Moab and Dagon.
The Gerim quotes Deuteronomy in the World English Bible:
The Old Testament - The Hebrew Bible summarizes the Book of Ruth, in which a Moabite widow joins Israel and becomes an ancestor of King David through Boaz.
The best known line about him is in the Bible.
The gods in the Bible lists him among the other deities the text condemns, and the chapter itself is summarized on Ezekiel.
On this site Marduk turns up in creation stories, calendars, festivals, the Bible and the Anunnaki readings, and this page brings them together.
Nebo/Nabu explains that Bel, the lord named beside Nebo, is likely Marduk, and The Bible: Blend and unify 'the Gods' into One says the Bible often calls him Bel, with Isaiah 46:1 as the example.
For the Greeks it could mean almost all of Africa, for the Bible it is the land of Cush around the second river of Eden, and for the nineteenth century writers on Atlantis it was the name of one of the oldest peoples on earth.
Then there are the Ethiopians of history, who kept a Bible larger than anyone else's and built churches on the edges of cliffs.
The Ethiopians appear in the second chapter of the Bible.
The Cush of the Bible was also a real kingdom on the Nile, south of Egypt.
On WLA on why the Ethiopian Bible was banned, WLA describes the canon as one that
WLA on why the Ethiopian Bible was banned
On The Bible: Blend and unify the Gods into One:
Outside the Bible, Jacob's other name turns up in a surprising place.
On Archaeology for the star from Jacob, Expedition Bible stands on the ridges where Balaam looked down on the camp and reads Numbers 24:17:
The Bible: Blend and unify the Gods into One
In the Bible the Persians arrive with an unseen ruler of their own.
A nation with a heavenly prince who can hold back an angel fits the idea, on The Bible: Blend and unify the Gods into One, that each people was assigned its own ruler among the Elohim.
The first pharaoh of the Bible meets Abram:
Who was the pharaoh of the Exodus?: Expedition Bible argues for Amenhotep II and 1446 BC.
The Bible itself says that the Israelites did not serve one god only:
On The Old Testament - The Hebrew Bible I give a short summary of each book, from Genesis to the prophets.
Read the Bible with that in mind and this verse sounds different:
The Oahspe Bible of 1882, written down by John Ballou Newbrough, tells a very different story of Gabriel.
All Bible quotes on this page are from the King James Version (KJV).
Ezekiel is a prophet in the Bible and he describes a vehicle which descended
Uncovered: Beings of the Bible: Paul Wallis reads Ezekiel's flying craft and Jacob's ladder as accounts of beings arriving from space.
The gods in the Bible: Tammuz, whose worship Ezekiel 8:14 condemns.
The gods in the Bible also takes up this admission of bad laws.
Islands mentioned in the Bible: Ezekiel 26, where the coastlands and islands tremble at the fall of Tyre.
All Bible quotes on this page are from the King James Version (KJV).
Were There Many Gods in the Bible?: the two "associates" who visit Sodom are described as handsome men, which the video takes as a sign that the Elohim looked human.
Destroyed cities: Sodom and Gomorrah head my list of cities destroyed or judged in the Bible, with the tradition that nearby towns may lie under the Dead Sea.
When I first read that, I thought of the Bible.
All Bible quotes on this page are from the King James Version (KJV).
The pattern is older than the Bible.
Ezekiel 1:4, Exodus 13:21, Exodus 19:18, Exodus 24:17, 2 Kings 2:11, 2 Kings 6:17, Bible Gateway (KJV)
Bible scholars have long noticed that the flood story has two voices.
It says the first books of the Bible were woven together from older written sources.
Richard Elliott Friedman shows the flood split into these two strands in his book Who Wrote the Bible?
Scripture quotations are from the ESV® Bible (The Holy Bible, English Standard Version®), © 2001 by Crossway, a publishing ministry of Good News Publishers.
The Bible gives it to Yahweh.
Wikipedia calls it "a phrase applied by editors of modern English Bibles to Yahweh in Psalm 68.4".
Mauro Biglino points at it in his article "Yahweh versus Baal: the war between the gods of the Bible".
He writes: "Baal is also called the ‘knight of the clouds’, an epithet which in the Bible is also applied to Yahweh." Biglino does not name Hadad in that article.
Paul Wallis reads the Bible's Noah the same way.
In his words from The 5th Kind interview, "Enlil wants a cull, wants to get rid of the human beings, just the same as the Yahweh character in the Bible." Wallis does not name Adad in the passage I read.
The Bible never names Hadad as a god.
Rimmon is the god himself, and the Bible mentions his house.
This is one more place where I see a Bible character treat two powers as real.
The video page summarizes Peter Machinist's Anchor Bible Dictionary entry.
It originated as an epithet." He adds that "The Bible mentions many Baals: Baal Berith, Baal Hammon, Baal Peor, Baal Zebub, Baal Zefon and others besides."
So I read "Baal" in the Bible with care.
Hadad shows how many names the Bible's world gave one kind of power.
My pages on Elohim and The Gods in the Bible follow that trail, and the second one lists Hadad under his Aramean name, Rimmon.
The Gods in the Bible
Marro lists the Anakim, Gibborim, Nephilim and Refaim as Bible names for these giants (p.
Marro says the tales of giants "pervaded the ancient literature", and he names Turfan, Mesopotamia, the Bible and Greece (p.
The Bible leaves this part of the story out.
See also The Gods in the Bible.