Samson and the Shephelah
Bible Review
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Bible Lands
Fellner Award Judges Named
Children’s Books 1985–1987
Illuminations
Bible Quiz
Israelite Battles and Heroes
1. Deborah defeated Sisera, but this woman drove home the point about the Israelite victory.
2. Arming his household servants, this man rescued both his nephew and the people of a now infamous city.
3. This prophet was “the chariots of Israel and its horsemen.”
4. She was too eager to greet an Israelite warrior and close relative who returned victorious, and paid for her enthusiasm with her life.
Bible Books
The People Called: The Growth of Community in the Bible
Paul D. Hanson (San Francisco: Harper & Row, 1986) 576 pp., $31.95
My View
First Glance
Edward Robinson (1794–1863), Biblical Geographer
Hailed as the “father of biblical geography,” Edward Robinson, a professor of biblical literature at Union Theological Seminary in New York, traveled through Palestine in 1838 with Eli Smith, a former student.
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