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- Herod purchases Egyptian grain for famine relief
Josephus credits Herod with selling palace valuables and purchasing Egyptian grain. The account describes food distribution and practical help for people unable to prepare bread. - Herod rebuilds Samaria as Sebaste
Josephus describes Herod strengthening Samaria, settling supporters there, and naming it Sebaste. The new city combines royal display with military security. - Herod secures his throne after Actium
Herod meets Octavian after having supported Antony. Josephus depicts him appealing to his record of loyalty rather than denying his previous allegiance. - Herod the Great rules Judea
Herod rules as a Roman client king and undertakes extensive building, including a major enlargement of the Temple complex. - Herod's games in honor of Caesar provoke opposition
Herod introduces costly games and performance venues honoring Caesar. Josephus describes objections to the displays and a conspiracy against the king. - Herodian Temple expansion
Herod's rebuilding project creates the monumental Temple setting known in the Gospels. - Hezekiah
King of Judah during the Assyrian threat. - Hezekiah and the Assyrian crisis
Assyria campaigns against Judah; the biblical account portrays Hezekiah's prayer and Jerusalem's deliverance. - Hildegard begins recording the visions of Scivias
Hildegard sets down a sequence of visions and interpretations concerning creation, redemption, the Church, and Christian life. Scivias presents theology through images and scriptural exposition. - Hippolytus, Commentary on Daniel 2.30.1–4
Hippolytus addresses the three youths in the furnace and says ‘remember me, I entreat you,’ asking for the same lot of martyrdom. This is petitionary address within biblical commentary. Whether it is devotional… - Holy and Great Council of Crete
The participating autocephalous churches adopted documents on the Orthodox mission, the diaspora, autonomy, fasting, marriage, and relations with the rest of the Christian world. - Holy Orders and Church Ministry
Protestant churches ordain or commission ministers under different polities. The Church of England orders deacons, priests, and bishops; Presbyterian churches share governance among ordained presbyters; and the… - Honor the Son just as the Father
Jesus asks for honor corresponding to the Father’s and ties dishonoring the Son to dishonoring the Father who sent him. - Hosea
Hosea uses family imagery, accusation, remembered deliverance, and renewed love to address Israel's unfaithfulness. Its severe language and tender recollections should be read together, with care not to turn… - Hosea
Prophet whose marriage imagery portrays covenant infidelity. - Hosea: covenant infidelity and mercy
Hosea uses covenant and family imagery to portray Israel's infidelity and God's persistent mercy. - Hoshea
Last king of the northern kingdom. - Households, hosts, and the infrastructure of mission
The New Testament mission depends on people who welcome travelers, offer meeting places, support prisoners, carry gifts, and connect communities. Cornelius gathers relatives and friends; Lydia welcomes the… - How could a saint know a request?
Even if saints pray in heaven, what warrants confidence that a particular saint perceives each spoken or silent request? Avoiding the word omniscience does not explain the basis for that confidence. - How to Evaluate the Moral Claims
Use two audits in sequence. The historical audit asks what a source actually says, when and how it was transmitted, whether independent evidence corroborates it, and how confidently it can be attributed to Muhammad.… - Huldah
Prophet consulted during Josiah's reform. - Hunger overtakes Jerusalem during the Babylonian siege
Second Kings describes an exhausted food supply before Jerusalem's wall is breached. Siege warfare reaches civilian households as well as the army. - Hyginus of Rome
Irenaeus places Hyginus after Telesphorus in the Roman succession. - I and the Father are one—and the gods quotation
Jesus quotes a text applying gods to others, then distinguishes himself as the one the Father sanctified and sent. The speech ends with Father in me, and I in the Father. - I search minds and hearts
The Son of God speaks in language closely resembling Yahweh’s searching and recompensing declaration in Jeremiah. - Ibzan
Judge associated with Bethlehem. - Ignatius of Antioch
Bishop and martyr whose seven widely accepted letters witness to the real humanity of Christ, the Eucharist, and unity around the bishop, presbyters, and deacons. - Ignatius of Antioch's letters
On the way to martyrdom, Ignatius writes about Christ, episcopal unity, and the Eucharist. - Ignatius: bishop, presbyters, and deacons
Ignatius's early second-century letters distinguish the bishop, presbytery, and deacons and connect the local bishop to Eucharistic order and communal unity. - Images
Protestant traditions vary in their use of religious art, and many reject the veneration of devotional images. - Images and Devotion
Protestant churches differ in their use of religious art. Many reject devotional veneration of images, yet some display pictures, stained glass, or crosses for teaching and remembrance; other churches prefer sparse… - Images, icons, and veneration
Many Protestant confessions reject the veneration of images or their use as objects of devotion, emphasizing the prohibition of idolatry and the sufficiency of worship directed to God. This does not mean every… - Irenaeus of Lyons
Bishop of Lyons who opposed rival claims to secret saving knowledge by appealing to the public apostolic proclamation, Scripture, and the faith of the churches. - Irenaeus responds to Gnosticism
Irenaeus appeals to Scripture, the rule of faith, and the public succession of apostolic churches against secret-teaching claims. - Irenaeus: public succession and doctrine
Against secret Gnostic teaching, Irenaeus asks readers to inspect the publicly handed-down teaching and succession of apostolic churches. He chooses Rome as an example and also refers to Polycarp of Smyrna. - Isaac
Son of Abraham and Sarah; father of Esau and Jacob. - Isaac and Rebekah
The covenant promise continues through Isaac and Rebekah's family. - Isaiah
Isaiah holds judgment, holiness, consolation, servant songs, and the hope of renewed creation within one received book. Assyrian crisis, exile, and restoration supply different literary horizons; New Testament… - Isaiah
Jerusalem prophet associated with judgment and hope. - Isaiah saw his glory
John explicitly quotes Isaiah’s commission and connects Isaiah’s vision of glory with his account of responses to Jesus.