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19 results for "abraham"

1. Septuagint, Malachi, 1 enoch, 72, 73, 74, 75, 76, 77, 78, 79, 81, 82, 80 (10th cent. BCE - 2nd cent. BCE) Tagged with subjects: •nan Found in books: Taylor, The Essenes, the Scrolls, and the Dead Sea (2012) 335

2. Hebrew Bible, Exodus, 6.15, 16.35 (9th cent. BCE - 3rd cent. BCE) Tagged with subjects: •abraham, astrologer, astronomy expert Found in books: Potter Suh and Holladay, Hellenistic Jewish Literature and the New Testament: Collected Essays (2021) 126

16.35. וּבְנֵי יִשְׂרָאֵל אָכְלוּ אֶת־הַמָּן אַרְבָּעִים שָׁנָה עַד־בֹּאָם אֶל־אֶרֶץ נוֹשָׁבֶת אֶת־הַמָּן אָכְלוּ עַד־בֹּאָם אֶל־קְצֵה אֶרֶץ כְּנָעַן׃

16.35. And the children of Israel did eat the manna forty years, until they came to a land inhabited; they did eat the manna, until they came unto the borders of the land of Canaan.

3. Hebrew Bible, Genesis, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9, 10, 11, 11.31-12.9, 12, 12.1, 12.4, 12.5, 12.6, 12.7, 12.8, 12.9, 13, 14, 14.1, 14.2, 14.3, 14.4, 14.5, 14.6, 14.7, 14.8, 14.9, 14.10, 14.11, 14.12, 14.13, 14.14, 14.15, 14.16, 14.17, 14.18, 14.19, 14.20, 14.21, 14.22, 14.23, 14.24, 15.5, 15.6 (9th cent. BCE - 3rd cent. BCE) Tagged with subjects: •nan Found in books: Potter Suh and Holladay, Hellenistic Jewish Literature and the New Testament: Collected Essays (2021) 127

14.20. and blessed be God the Most High, who hath delivered thine enemies into thy hand.’ And he gave him a tenth of all.

4. Anon., Jubilees, 12.16-12.21 (2nd cent. BCE - 2nd cent. BCE) Tagged with subjects: •abraham, as an astrologer Found in books: Taylor, The Essenes, the Scrolls, and the Dead Sea (2012) 335

12.16. and Abram, dwelt with Terah his father in Haran two weeks of years. 12.17. And in the sixth week, in the fifth year thereof, Abram sat up throughout the night on the new moon of the seventh month to observe the stars from the evening to the morning, in order to see what would be the character of the year with regard to the rains, 12.18. and he was alone as he sat and observed.rAnd a word came into his heart and he said: "All the signs of the stars, and the signs of the moon and of the sun are all in the hand of the Lord. 12.19. Why do I search (them) out? If He desireth, He causeth it to rain, morning and evening; And if He desireth, He withholdeth it, And all things are in His hand." 12.20. And he prayed that night and said "My God, God Most High, Thou alone art my God, And Thee and Thy dominion have I chosen. And Thou hast created all things, And all things that are are the work of Thy hands. 12.21. Deliver me from the hands of evil spirits who have sway over the thoughts of men's hearts, And let them not lead me astray from Thee, my God.

5. Philo of Alexandria, On The Life of Abraham, 69-71 (1st cent. BCE - 1st cent. CE) Tagged with subjects: •nan Found in books: Potter Suh and Holladay, Hellenistic Jewish Literature and the New Testament: Collected Essays (2021) 90

71. In order, therefore, that he may the more firmly establish the sight which has thus been presented to him in his mind, the sacred word says to him, My good friend, great things are often made known by slight outlines, at which he who looks increases his imagination to an unlimited extent; therefore, having dismissed those who bend all their attention to the heavenly bodies, and discarding the Chaldaean science, rise up and depart for a short time from the greatest of cities, this world, to one which is smaller; for so you will be the better able to comprehend the nature of the Ruler of the universe.

6. Philo of Alexandria, On The Virtues, 212 (1st cent. BCE - 1st cent. CE) Tagged with subjects: •abraham, astrologer, astronomy expert •josephus, abraham as astrologer Found in books: Potter Suh and Holladay, Hellenistic Jewish Literature and the New Testament: Collected Essays (2021) 90

212. The most ancient person of the Jewish nation was a Chaldaean by birth, born of a father who was very skilful in astronomy, and famous among those men who pass their lives in the study of mathematics, who look upon the stars as gods, and worship the whole heaven and the whole world; thinking, that from them do all good and all evil proceed, to every individual among men; as they do not conceive that there is any cause whatever, except such as are included among the objects of the outward senses.

7. Josephus Flavius, Jewish Antiquities, 1.158-1.159 (1st cent. CE - 1st cent. CE) Tagged with subjects: •nan Found in books: Potter Suh and Holladay, Hellenistic Jewish Literature and the New Testament: Collected Essays (2021) 90; Taylor, The Essenes, the Scrolls, and the Dead Sea (2012) 335

1.158. Μνημονεύει δὲ τοῦ πατρὸς ἡμῶν ̔Αβράμου Βηρωσός, οὐκ ὀνομάζων, λέγων δ' οὕτως: “μετὰ δὲ τὸν κατακλυσμὸν δεκάτῃ γενεᾷ παρὰ Χαλδαίοις τις ἦν δίκαιος ἀνὴρ καὶ μέγας καὶ τὰ οὐράνια ἔμπειρος.” 1.159. ̔Εκαταῖος δὲ καὶ τοῦ μνησθῆναι πλέον τι πεποίηκε: βιβλίον γὰρ περὶ αὐτοῦ συνταξάμενος κατέλιπε. Νικόλαος δὲ ὁ Δαμασκηνὸς ἐν τῇ τετάρτῃ τῶν ἱστοριῶν λέγει οὕτως: “̔Αβράμης ἐβασίλευσεν ἔπηλυς σὺν στρατῷ ἀφιγμένος ἐκ τῆς γῆς τῆς ὑπὲρ Βαβυλῶνος Χαλδαίων λεγομένης.

1.158. 2. Berosus mentions our father Abram without naming him, when he says thus: “In the tenth generation after the Flood, there was among the Chaldeans a man righteous and great, and skillful in the celestial science.” 1.159. But Hecatseus does more than barely mention him; for he composed, and left behind him, a book concerning him. And Nicolaus of Damascus, in the fourth book of his History, says thus: “Abram reigned at Damascus, being a foreigner, who came with an army out of the land above Babylon, called the land of the Chaldeans:

8. New Testament, Romans, 4 (1st cent. CE - 1st cent. CE) Tagged with subjects: •abraham, astrologer, astronomy expert Found in books: Potter Suh and Holladay, Hellenistic Jewish Literature and the New Testament: Collected Essays (2021) 126

4. , What then will we say that Abraham, our forefather, has found according to the flesh? , For if Abraham was justified by works, he has something to boast about, but not toward God. , For what does the Scripture say? "Abraham believed God, and it was accounted to him for righteousness.", Now to him who works, the reward is not accounted as of grace, but as of debt. , But to him who doesn't work, but believes in him who justifies the ungodly, his faith is accounted for righteousness. , Even as David also pronounces blessing on the man to whom God counts righteousness apart from works, , "Blessed are they whose iniquities are forgiven, Whose sins are covered. , Blessed is the man whom the Lord will by no means charge with sin.", Is this blessing then pronounced on the circumcised, or on the uncircumcised also? For we say that faith was accounted to Abraham for righteousness. , How then was it counted? When he was in circumcision, or in uncircumcision? Not in circumcision, but in uncircumcision. , He received the sign of circumcision, a seal of the righteousness of the faith which he had while he was in uncircumcision, that he might be the father of all those who believe, though they be in uncircumcision, that righteousness might also be accounted to them. , The father of circumcision to those who not only are of the circumcision, but who also walk in the steps of that faith of our father Abraham, which he had in uncircumcision. , For the promise to Abraham and to his seed that he should be heir of the world wasn't through the law, but through the righteousness of faith. , For if those who are of the law are heirs, faith is made void, and the promise is made of no effect. , For the law works wrath, for where there is no law, neither is there disobedience. , For this cause it is of faith, that it may be according to grace, to the end that the promise may be sure to all the seed, not to that only which is of the law, but to that also which is of the faith of Abraham, who is the father of us all. , As it is written, "I have made you a father of many nations." This is in the presence of him whom he believed: God, who gives life to the dead, and calls the things that are not, as though they were. , Who in hope believed against hope, to the end that he might become a father of many nations, according to that which had been spoken, "So will your seed be.", Without being weakened in faith, he didn't consider his own body, already having been worn out, (he being about a hundred years old), and the deadness of Sarah's womb. , Yet, looking to the promise of God, he didn't waver through unbelief, but grew strong through faith, giving glory to God, , and being fully assured that what he had promised, he was able also to perform. , Therefore it also was "reckoned to him for righteousness.", Now it was not written that it was accounted to him for his sake alone, , but for our sake also, to whom it will be accounted, who believe in him who raised Jesus, our Lord, from the dead, , who was delivered up for our trespasses, and was raised for our justification.

9. Clement of Alexandria, Miscellanies, 5.14.123.2 (2nd cent. CE - 3rd cent. CE) Tagged with subjects: •abraham, astrologer, astronomy expert •josephus, abraham as astrologer Found in books: Potter Suh and Holladay, Hellenistic Jewish Literature and the New Testament: Collected Essays (2021) 90

10. Firmicus Maternus Julius., Matheseos, 4.17.5-4.17.6, 4.18.2 (3rd cent. CE - 4th cent. CE) Tagged with subjects: •abraham (astrologer) Found in books: Gieseler Greenbaum, The Daimon in Hellenistic Astrology: Origins and Influence (2015) 312

11. Eusebius of Caesarea, Preparation For The Gospel, 9.17.2-9.17.9, 9.18.1-9.18.2, 18.2 (3rd cent. CE - 4th cent. CE) Tagged with subjects: •abraham, as an astrologer Found in books: Taylor, The Essenes, the Scrolls, and the Dead Sea (2012) 335

12. Ambrosiaster, Quaestiones Veteris Et Novi Testamenti, 117.5 (4th cent. CE - 4th cent. CE) Tagged with subjects: •abraham, as an astrologer Found in books: Taylor, The Essenes, the Scrolls, and the Dead Sea (2012) 335

13. Dead Sea Scrolls, '4Q209=4Qenastrb, 0 Tagged with subjects: •abraham, as an astrologer Found in books: Taylor, The Essenes, the Scrolls, and the Dead Sea (2012) 335

14. Dead Sea Scrolls, '4Q210=4Qenastrc, 0 Tagged with subjects: •abraham, as an astrologer Found in books: Taylor, The Essenes, the Scrolls, and the Dead Sea (2012) 335

15. Dead Sea Scrolls, '4Q211=4Qenastrd, 0 Tagged with subjects: •abraham, as an astrologer Found in books: Taylor, The Essenes, the Scrolls, and the Dead Sea (2012) 335

16. Firmicus Maternus, Matheseos, 4.17.5-4.17.6, 4.18.2 Tagged with subjects: •abraham (astrologer) Found in books: Gieseler Greenbaum, The Daimon in Hellenistic Astrology: Origins and Influence (2015) 312

17. Eupolemus, Fragments, 1.4 Tagged with subjects: •abraham, astrologer, astronomy expert Found in books: Potter Suh and Holladay, Hellenistic Jewish Literature and the New Testament: Collected Essays (2021) 126

18. Pseudo-Eupolemus, Fragments, 1.4, 1.8 Tagged with subjects: •abraham, astrologer, astronomy expert Found in books: Potter Suh and Holladay, Hellenistic Jewish Literature and the New Testament: Collected Essays (2021) 126

19. Dead Sea Scrolls, '4Q208=4Qenastra, 0 Tagged with subjects: •abraham, as an astrologer Found in books: Taylor, The Essenes, the Scrolls, and the Dead Sea (2012) 335

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