While many Sefwi people observed some Jewish laws for centuries including refraining from work on Saturdays this group declared themselves ancestors of ancient Israelites and starting calling themselves Jews.
VOA: standard.2009.09.26
Consider the position of the Israelites in the sixth century, the time of the final editing of the Deuteronomistic history.
想一下以色列在六世纪时的位置,也就是可考证的申命记历史最后编成的时间。
So the pharaoh enlists all of the people to annihilate the Israelites by drowning all newborn males in the Nile River.
法老便召集了所有人民歼灭以色列人,将男婴溺死在尼罗河中。
Then we have the simile of the fallen leaves, which compares the fallen angels to fallen leaves, and in that simile we have the image of the Israelites.
然后我们又看到落叶的明喻,在这里作者将堕落的天使比作了落叶,并且我们在这里又看到了以色列人的形象。
Come, therefore, I will send you to Pharaoh, ] and you shall free my people, the Israelites, from Egypt."
故此,我要打发你去见法老,使你可以将我的百姓以色列人从埃及领出来“
On the other hand, a Protestant distaste for priest-centered cultic ritual colors scholarly accounts of the temple, and its meaning for ancient Israelites.
一方面,新教徒不喜欢,以神职人员为中心的,狂热祭祀,就庙宇来说,也有不同的歪曲,以及对犹太人的意义。
Instead the Israelites are affirming their identity and their relationship with God by telling a story, a story whose moral can only be that God is reliable.
相反,犹太人是确定了他们的身份,和上帝的关系,通过讲述这个故事,故事的唯一教育意义便是,上帝是值得信赖的。
The book of Numbers recounts the itinerary of the Israelites throughout the 40 years of their wanderings and encampments around the sacred tabernacle.
民数记》中,详细描述了,犹太人在荒野中40年的生活,在放置约柜的帐幕旁边安营扎寨。
In Numbers 14, for example, when the Israelites complain again, God is determined to destroy them, and Moses intervenes, and the intervention leads to a compromise.
比如,在《民数记》14中,当犹太人再次抱怨的时候,上帝决定毁灭他们,但是摩西阻止了,摩西的干涉,使上帝妥协了。
Chapters 19 to 24 are very, very important chapters that contain the theophany, the self-revelation of God to the Israelites, and the covenant that's concluded at Sinai.
第19章到24章是极其重要的章节,讲述了神的出现,他在以色列人面前的显形,以及在西奈山所做的誓约。
The Israelites march around Jericho for six days with seven priests carrying seven horns and the Ark of the Covenant, and then with a blast and a shout the walls tumble.
以色列人和七位祭司绕耶利哥城六天,带着七支号角和约柜,然后随着爆炸巨响城墙坍塌。
They destroy these helpless but stoic humans who are chafing under their tyrannical and unjust and uncaring rule. In the biblical story, when the Israelites told the story, they modified it.
他们把那些在他们残暴,不公平统治下,无助又愤愤不平的人,全部消灭了,当犹太人来讲这个故事时,他们对此做了修改。
The blood of sacrificial animals is assigned by God as a detergent, if you will, to cleanse the sanctuary of the impurities that are caused by the sinful deeds of the Israelites.
祭祀动物的血液被上帝指定为清洁剂,如果你想,它可以用来清除圣所中,由以色列人的罪恶行为带来的不洁。
And Moses admonishes the Israelites not to suppose that their inheritance of the land of Canaan is due to their own powers, or on account of any righteousness or virtue that they possess.
摩西警告以色列人不要想当然地认为,他们继承迦南之地是凭借了自己的力量,或者视之为他们所拥有的正义和美德。
That was a story that surely was near and dear to the hearts of Many ancient Israelites and Ancient Near Eastern listeners, so all the elements are there for the retelling of that story.
这个故事必然对一些人来说亲近又珍贵,对那些古代以色列和近东的听众,那就具备了复述故事的一切要素。
I love reading these particular stories, and just hearing the dialogue between them, and imagining it, because the two of them alternate in losing patience with the Israelites, and wishing to throw them over.
我喜欢读这些特别的故事,读他们之间的对话,想象那个场景,因为他们两个轮流对犹太人,失去耐心,想放弃他们。
And this new pharaoh will enslave the Israelites, and so embitter their lives, that their cry will rise up to heaven the same cry from the generation of the flood, the same cry from Sodom and Gomorrah.
这个新法老将会迫使以色列人为奴,他如此激怒他们,他们的哭号传至天堂,就像大洪水时期一样的哭号,像来自罪恶之城俄摩拉城一样的哭号。
The second half of verse 5 and 6 gives the reward: God is conferring on the Israelites this elevated status ; of royalty, of priesthood; "You'll be to me a kingdom of priests, and a holy nation."
诗5余下的部分和诗6,说明了遵守的奖赏:,上帝将会使犹太人的地位提升,忠诚的,祭司的国家;,“你们要归我作祭司的国度,为圣洁的国家“
There is very, very good evidence to suggest that ancient Israelites by and large shared this world view.
有古老证据显示古代犹太人,广泛的持有这样的世界观。
Even after the Israelites will settle in their own land, the life of the desert pastoralist remained a sort of romantic ideal for them.
甚至在以色列人安定以后,依旧认为,那种游牧式的生活,是非常浪漫的。
But Moses refuses to accept the offer, and instead he defends the Israelites, and he averts their destruction.
但是摩西拒绝上帝提供的机会,为犹太人进行辩护,努力的避免被毁灭。
The riffraff in their midst felt a gluttonous craving; and then the Israelites wept and said, 'If only we had meat to eat!
这些乌合之众是贪食者;,然后犹太人边哭边说,“要是有肉吃就好了!
The material tells of God's provision for the people in the desert, but it also tells of the Israelites' constant complaining, and rebellion.
这些材料描述了上帝在沙漠中对人们的供应,同时也描述了犹太人不间断的抱怨和背叛。
The image we get there is that the Israelites are working their way through the marsh on foot, and the Egyptians' chariot wheels can't make it through the marsh.
我们所得到的印象是,犹太人徒步走过沼泽,而埃及人因为坐在马车上,所以无法穿过沼泽。
But in this next passage, which is Numbers 11, Moses is the one who is impatient with the Israelites' constant complaints and lack of faith, and he's ready to throw in the towel.
但在下一篇《民数记》11中,摩西成为了那个对犹太人不停的抱怨,缺乏信仰,没有耐心的人,他准备认输。
God's redemption of the Israelites is a redemption for a purpose, a purpose that doesn't become clear until we get to Sinai, for at Sinai the Israelites will become God's people, bound by a covenant.
上帝对犹太人的救赎是有目的的,直到了西奈,目的才显现出来,在西奈,犹太人将成为上帝的子民,与契约绑定。
Moreover, the basket is placed among the reeds suph the Hebrew word for reeds is suph and that's a hint or an allusion to the fact that Yam Suph Moses will lead the Israelites through the "Reed Sea," the Yam Suph.
而且,篮子是放在芦丛中的,希伯来语中指芦丛的词语是,这也是对事实的一个暗示,摩西将会带来以色列人走出里德海。
So that suggests that the ancient Israelites didn't conceive of God As gendered or necessarily gendered.
也说明在古代以色列人构想中,上帝没有性别也不必有性别。
And this embarrassing episode is just the beginning of a sequence of embarrassing events that will occur as the Israelites move from Egypt towards the land that's been promised to them.
这令人尴尬的一幕只是,一系列尴尬事件的开始,这些都将发生在他们从埃及到应许之地的路上。
A further theme in Deuteronomy is the fact that the covenant concept entails the idea that each generation of Israelites understand itself as having been bound with God in the original covenant.
申命记一个更深的主题是事实上契约,传承了一种理念,即每一代以色列人都认为他们,通过最初的契约与上帝紧密相连。
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