Category Archives: Exodus

Translating Merneptah’s Egyptian Victory Hymn

You may not know about Merneptah, but he was king of Egypt during an important time of great upheaval in Canaan — a time when Israel was settling in and taking land. Merneptah’s reign overlaps the Biblical record of Israel in Canaan; best of all, he is the first one (outside of the Bible) to

Images of God used in Worship

Do the following words have any relationship to using pictures of Jesus in churches? Exodus 20:4-5. “You shall not make for yourself a carved image—any likeness of anything that is in heaven above, or that is in the earth beneath, or that is in the water under the earth; you shall not bow down to