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Canaan was a Semitic-speaking civilization and region of the Southern Levant in the Ancient Near East during the late 2nd millennium BC. The name "Canaan" appears throughout the Bible as a geography associated with the "Promised Land" and the origin of the Phoenicians and Punics.
Solomon was the son and successor of King David, according to the Hebrew Bible or Old Testament. He is credited with building the First Temple in Jerusalem, and is portrayed as wise, wealthy and powerful, but also as a subject of debate and legends.
An overview of Mary's life, titles, and roles in Christianity and other religions. Learn about her virgin birth, Assumption, Marian dogmas, devotions, and artistic representations.
The Sarcophagus of Eshmunazar II was the first of this type of inscription found anywhere in the Levant (modern Jordan, Palestine, Israel, Lebanon and Syria). [1] [2]The Canaanite and Aramaic inscriptions, also known as Northwest Semitic inscriptions, [3] are the primary extra-Biblical source for understanding of the society and history of the ancient Phoenicians, Hebrews and Arameans.
Learn about the history, academics, and achievements of the first Catholic college in New England, founded by Bishop Fenwick in 1843. Holy Cross is a private Jesuit liberal arts college in Worcester, Massachusetts, with a large endowment and selective admissions.
Codex Sinaiticus is a fourth-century Greek Bible, containing the Old and New Testaments, with both the Epistle of Barnabas and the Shepherd of Hermas. It is one of the four great uncial codices, and one of the earliest and most complete manuscripts of the Bible, with the oldest complete copy of the New Testament.
The Old Testament is the first division of the Christian biblical canon, based on the Hebrew Bible or Tanakh, with some differences in order and number of books. Learn about the origins, divisions, and contents of the Old Testament, as well as the deuterocanonical books and the Septuagint.
Phoenicia was a thalassocratic culture that originated in the Levant and expanded across the Mediterranean, trading and colonizing from Cyprus to the Iberian Peninsula. The Phoenicians developed the world's oldest alphabet, innovated in shipbuilding and navigation, and influenced Classical Western civilization.