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Ancient Sumerian city on the Euphrates in southern Mesopotamia. Abraham's birthplace, called 'Ur of the Chalde…

A wide wooden fork used to toss threshed grain into the air. The wind carries the chaff away; the heavier grai…

Priestly handbook from Sinai. Sacrifices, festivals, food laws, and the holiness code. The book that teaches I…

Forty years of wandering in the wilderness between Sinai and Canaan. Two generations: the one that came out of…

Son of Nun of the tribe of Ephraim, attendant to Moses and commander at Rephidim (Exo.17). After Moses he led …

A post-exile retelling of Israel's history from Adam to David. Long genealogies followed by David's reign as T…