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Hanukkah: Feast of Dedication Or Festival of Lights

Posted on December 24, 2024 by Bryan Hodge

Hanukkah or Chanukkah (Hebrew meaning Dedication) is an annual Jewish holiday. It is celebrated over eight consecutive days (in 2024, it occurs beginning on the evening of December 25 through January 2). It celebrates the rededication of the Temple in … Continue reading →

Posted in History, holiday, Jesus | Tagged 1 Maccabees 4:36-59, 164 B.C., 2 Maccabees 10:5-8, antiochus epiphanes, antiochus IV, chanukkah, cleansing temple, dedication of temple, feast of dedication, feast of lights, festival of lights, hanukkah, history, holiday, intertestiment period, John 10:22-38, John 8:12, josephus, Josephus Antiquities 12.7.7, judaism, light, light of world, maccabees, menorah, period of prophetic silence, rededication of temple, reformjudaism.org | Leave a comment

Fifteen Periods of Bible History

Posted on November 11, 2012 by Bryan Hodge

It is not uncommon for Bible readers to get confused over the Biblical time-line. How close in time were certain events? Were these personalities contemporary? How long before Christ was that? The Bible can be outlined in fifteen periods of … Continue reading →

Posted in Bible History, Bible Study, Old Testament/New Testament | Tagged 1 Kings 6:1 cf. Acts 13:21 cf. 2 Samuel 5:4-5 cf. 1 Kings 2:11 cf. 1 Kings 11:42 cf. 2 Chronicles 9:30, 10 cf. Deuteronomy 2:14, 17; Genesis 46:9; Galatians 3:16-17; 1 Kings 6:1, 25:26 cf. 47:8-9, 430 years or 400 years or 215 years, a.d., a.m., after the flood, andy kiser, anno domini, anno mundi, antediluvian, b.c., babylon, bad kings, before Christ, before flood, Bible History, captivity restoration, chronology, chronology of n.t. books, church, conquest, divided kingdom, division of greece, don simpson, egyptian, fifteen periods, Genesis 11, Genesis 12:4 cf. 21:5 cf, Genesis 12:4; Genesis 21:5 cf. 17:1, Genesis 5, good kings, greece, herods, how long was period of judges, how long were children of israel in egypt, immanuel, inter-testament, Joshua 11:23 cf. 14:7, judah alone, judges, kings of israel, kings of judah, maccabees, passovers in Jesus ministry, patriarchal, pauls missionary journeys, persia, pharisees, postdiluvian, prophetic silence, prophets to israel, prophets to judah, prophets to others, Revelation 17:10-12, rome, roy deaver, sadducees, three carrying aways, three returns, timeline, united kingdom, wilderness wanderings | Leave a comment

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Hanukkah: Feast of Dedication Or Festival of Lights

Fifteen Periods of Bible History

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