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Gideon Rajecké
Gideon (; ) also named Jerubbaal and Jerubbesheth, was a military leader, judge and prophet whose calling and victory over the Midianites is recounted in of the Book of Judges in both the Hebrew Bible and the Christian Bible. Gideon was the son of Joash, from the Abiezrite clan in the tribe of Manasseh and lived in Ephra (Ophrah). As a leader of the Israelites, he won a decisive victory over a Midianite army despite a vast numerical disadvantage, leading a troop of 300 men. Archaeologists in southern Israel have found a 3,100-year-old fragment of a jug with five letters written in ink that appear to represent the name Jerubbaal, or Yeruba'al. Names The nineteenth-century Strong's Concordance derives the name "Jerubbaal" from "Baal will contend", in accordance with the folk etymology, given in . According to biblical scholar Lester Grabbe (2007), " udges6.32 gives a nonsensical etymology of his name; it means something like 'Let Baal be great. Likewise, where Strong gave th ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Adam And Eve/Gideon And The Fleece
''Adam and Eve'' and ''Gideon and the Fleece'' are two life-sized Old Testament paintings by the Habsburg Netherlands, Low Countries Dutch Renaissance painter Maarten van Heemskerck, Maarten (or Maerten) van Heemskerck. They are on display in the Musée des Beaux-Arts de Strasbourg, Musée des Beaux-Arts of Strasbourg, France. Their inventory numbers are 1747b (''Adam and Eve'') and 1747a (''Gideon''). The Strasbourg panels were bought from a private Parisian collection in 1948, their previous history is as yet unknown. They have however been identified as the Obverse and reverse, obverse of two panels from 1550, now kept in the Museum Boijmans Van Beuningen, Rotterdam, and thus as the wings of a triptych, of which the middle panel is lost. It is thought to have shown a ''Nativity of Jesus''. The Gideon panel depicts the episode from the Book of Judges]6:36-40in which Gideon asks God for two successive miracles regarding a Wool, fleece, first that it should be wet with dew in the ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
