Biblical Name Eshbaal Found Outside of the Bible
June 08, 2015 (Source: http://www.biblicalarchaeology.org) Ner was the father of Kish, Kish the father of Saul, and Saul the father of Jonathan, Malki-Shua, Abinadab and Esh-Baal. —1 Chronicles 8:33...
View Article11th Century Byzantine Theodore Psalter
July 03, 2015 (Source: http://britishlibrary.typepad.co.uk) The psalter, a copy of the Psalms designed for personal or liturgical uses, was an important text in Byzantinum, particularly in monastic...
View ArticleAltar of Holy Martyr King Olaf Discovered in Norway
[Source] The original shrine to a Viking-king-turned-saint has been discovered in Norway, archaeologists say. The Norwegian Institute for Cultural Heritage Research (NIKU) announced Nov. 11 that its...
View ArticleTop 10 Biblical Archaeology Discoveries of 2016
[Source] **The stories below are listed in no particular order** Cemetery excavation supervisor Adam Aja examines a 10th–9th century B.C.E.burial during the excavation of the Philistine cemetery by the...
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Ravenna, Elvira, Baptism, and Shells
One of the reason Baptismal fonts and holy water fonts were sometimes called ‘concha’, was because they had a sea shell design. For example, in the 19th century, archaeologists uncovered the Hamman Lif...
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The Vision of St. Laisren (Molaise) and the Battle with the Demons in the Air...
From the “Vision of St. Laisren (Molaise), Abbot of Old Leighlin”, in Ireland (St. Laisren, +639AD): The Angels and Demons Contend Over the Soul after Departing the Body Once upon a time Laisrén went...
View ArticleSt. Basil the Great’s “Address to Young Men on the Right Use of Greek...
I. Many considerations, young men, prompt me to recommend to you the principles which I deem most desirable, and which I believe will be of use to you if you will adopt them. For my time of life, my...
View ArticleFr. Vladimir (Guettee) on St. Augustine and the Papacy
Further down is an extract from Fr. Vladimir Guettee’s useful book “The Papacy”, which he wrote after his conversion to Orthodoxy. It should be noted that almost all scholarship, researching the...
View ArticleBiblically Illiterate News Wrong about Canaanites
Source: https://evolutionnews.org Obviously, your friends at Evolution News are not here to do Biblical exegesis. However, when science headlines tendentiously try to manipulate readers in order to...
View ArticleTomos of Synod of Blachernae in 1285 Against the Filioque
Source: http://www.oodegr.com/english/oikoumenismos/filioque_beccus.htm?fref=gc By the most holy and ecumenical Patriarch, Lord Gregory of Cyprus, who was attacked by certain individuals, and for whom...
View ArticleSermon on Law and Grace by St. Hilarion, Metropolitan of Kiev [+1055AD]
[Source] Concerning: the Law given by Moses and the Grace and Truth which came by Jesus Christ. And: how the Law departed, and Grace and Truth filled all the Earth, and Faith spread forth to all...
View ArticleBreaking Communion With Heretics and the 15th Canon I-II Constantinople by...
NFTU was asked to post the following paper on the subject of cessation of communion. The document was composed by the Romanian speaking Moldovan Non-Commemorator Brotherhood of St. Ignatius...
View ArticleA Review of “Aldhelm: The Prose Works”
The translation of St. Aldhelm of Sherborne’s existing prose works in “Aldhelm: The Prose Works”, made by Anglo-Saxon and Medieval Latin scholars Michael Lapidge and Michael Herren, helps provide much...
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