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The Atlanta Constitution reported the $52,000 transaction on its front page, reporting it as "one of the most important real estate and church transactions ever made in Atlanta" and described an auditorium "eight or ten stories in height" and estimated construction cost at $250,000. [7] R. H. Hunt's original proposed design, 1907
The Return of the Prodigal Son (1773) by Pompeo Batoni. The Parable of the Prodigal Son (also known as the parable of the Two Brothers, Lost Son, Loving Father, or of the Forgiving Father) [ 1][ 2] is one of the parables of Jesus in the Bible, appearing in Luke 15 :11–32. [ i] In Luke 15, Jesus is said to tell this story, along with those of ...
Ishmael (cousin) Isaac (cousin) Lot ( / lɒt /; Hebrew: לוֹט Lōṭ, lit. "veil" or "covering"; [ 1] Greek: Λώτ Lṓt; Arabic: لُوط Lūṭ; Syriac: ܠܘܛ Lōṭ) was a man mentioned in the biblical Book of Genesis, chapters 11–14 and 19. Notable events in his life recorded in Genesis include his journey with his uncle Abraham; his ...
The Daughters of Zelophehad (illustration from the 1908 Bible and Its Story Taught by One Thousand Picture Lessons). The Daughters of Zelophehad (Hebrew: בְּנוֹת צְלָפְחָד, romanized: Bənōṯ Ṣəlāfəḥāḏ) were five sisters – Mahlah (Hebrew: מַחְלָה Maḥlā), Noa (נֹעָה Nōʿā), Hoglah (חָגְלָה Ḥoglā), Milcah (מִלְכָּה Mīlkā), and ...
The Book of Sirach was originally written in Biblical Hebrew and was also known as the "Proverbs of ben Sira" ( משלי בן סירא, Mišlē ben Sirā) or the "Wisdom of ben Sira" ( חכמת בן סירא, Ḥokhmat ben Sirā ). The book was not accepted into the Hebrew Bible and the original Hebrew text was not preserved by the Masoretes.
David and Jonathan were, according to the Hebrew Bible 's Books of Samuel, heroic figures of the Kingdom of Israel, who formed a covenant, taking a mutual oath. Jonathan was the son of Saul, king of Israel, of the tribe of Benjamin, and David was the son of Jesse of Bethlehem, of the tribe of Judah, and Jonathan's presumed rival for the crown.
Judith and Holophernes, by Michelangelo, ( Sistine Chapel, Vatican City) The Book of Judith is a deuterocanonical book included in the Septuagint and the Catholic and Eastern Orthodox Christian Old Testament of the Bible but excluded from the Hebrew canon and assigned by Protestants to the apocrypha.
Daniel (Dn'il, or Danel) is also the name of a figure in the Aqhat legend from Ugarit. [ 4] (. Ugarit was a Canaanite city destroyed around 1200 BCE – the tablet containing the story is dated c. 1360 BCE.) [ 11] This legendary Daniel is known for his righteousness and wisdom and a follower of the god El (hence his name), who made the god’s ...