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Incarnation
Incarnation literally means embodied in flesh or taking on flesh. The incarnation of Christ is a central Christian doctrine that God became flesh, assumed a human nature, and became a man in the form of Jesus, the Son of God and the second person of the Trinity. This foundational Christian position holds that the divine nature of the Son of God was perfectly united with human nature in one divine Person, Jesus, making him both truly God and truly man.
Incarnation literally means embodied in flesh or taking on flesh. The incarnation of Christ is a central Christian doctrine that God became flesh, assumed a human nature, and became a man in the form of Jesus, the Son of God and the second person of the Trinity. This foundational Christian position holds that the divine nature of the Son of God was perfectly united with human nature in one divine Person, Jesus, making him both truly God and truly man.
Illness
Ancient Judaism acclaimed God as source of health and illness, so sickness was interpreted as a divine punishment for individual and/or communal sins. God was responsible for all healing, but healing would often be mediated by those who stood between the people and God, the priests and prophets, who invoked God’s action and help through sacrifice, prayer, repentance and fasting as well as priestly purification rituals at the Temple. Any ‘magical’ healing practices were associated with idolatry and paganism. Over time the role of physician was increasingly accepted, but as a healer, the physician worked in partnership with God.
The Hebrew prophets understood that healing could be both physical and spiritual. Healing, wholeness, occurred when a person ‘returned’ to God, most commemorated in Luke’s parables of lost and found (Lk 15).
Ancient Judaism acclaimed God as source of health and illness, so sickness was interpreted as a divine punishment for individual and/or communal sins. God was responsible for all healing, but healing would often be mediated by those who stood between the people and God, the priests and prophets, who invoked God’s action and help through sacrifice, prayer, repentance and fasting as well as priestly purification rituals at the Temple. Any ‘magical’ healing practices were associated with idolatry and paganism. Over time the role of physician was increasingly accepted, but as a healer, the physician worked in partnership with God.
The Hebrew prophets understood that healing could be both physical and spiritual. Healing, wholeness, occurred when a person ‘returned’ to God, most commemorated in Luke’s parables of lost and found (Lk 15).
Inheritance
An inheritance is something that is or may be inherited. For example property passing at the owner's death to an heir or someone entitled to succeed. In Judaism, the father (the owner of the land) will leave his land only to his male children. Therefore the Promised Land (Israel) passes from one Jewish father to his sons. If a man has no sons, then his daughter(s) may inherit. If he has no children, then his brother(s) inherit and so on down the line. Deuteronomy (21:17) suggests that property was divided into shares, with eldest sons receiving two shares to the younger ones a single share.
An inheritance is something that is or may be inherited. For example property passing at the owner's death to an heir or someone entitled to succeed. In Judaism, the father (the owner of the land) will leave his land only to his male children. Therefore the Promised Land (Israel) passes from one Jewish father to his sons. If a man has no sons, then his daughter(s) may inherit. If he has no children, then his brother(s) inherit and so on down the line. Deuteronomy (21:17) suggests that property was divided into shares, with eldest sons receiving two shares to the younger ones a single share.
Inn
See kataluma.
See kataluma.
Israelite
The Israelites are the people of God whose story is found in the Old Testament.
The founding parents of Israel are Abraham (Abram) and Sarah (Sarai) whose son Isaac is born to them late in life. As an adult Isaac marries Rebekah and they have twins, Jacob and Esau. Of the two boys, Jacob is the one who carries the family name forward, marrying Rachel and Leah, who, with two concubines give Jacob 12 sons. Jacob knows God, and after a journey to the land of Canaan, God tells Jacob, ‘Your name is Jacob, no longer shall you be called Jacob, but Israel shall be your name.’ Gen 35.9
From then on, the entire family of Jacob, now Israel, became known as the Israelites; his 12 sons, the 12 tribes of Israel. (see Abram)
The Israelites are the people of God whose story is found in the Old Testament.
The founding parents of Israel are Abraham (Abram) and Sarah (Sarai) whose son Isaac is born to them late in life. As an adult Isaac marries Rebekah and they have twins, Jacob and Esau. Of the two boys, Jacob is the one who carries the family name forward, marrying Rachel and Leah, who, with two concubines give Jacob 12 sons. Jacob knows God, and after a journey to the land of Canaan, God tells Jacob, ‘Your name is Jacob, no longer shall you be called Jacob, but Israel shall be your name.’ Gen 35.9
From then on, the entire family of Jacob, now Israel, became known as the Israelites; his 12 sons, the 12 tribes of Israel. (see Abram)
