An ancient civilisation whose territory was located to the north and east of Israel and whose wealth came from their control of the trade routes to the East. They influenced the region from around 2000 BC to around 1200 BC. Their territory became s...

A group of Canaanites who lived in the mountainous regions of Canaan from the far north near Lebanon to the region just north of Jerusalem.

A group of people mentioned seven times alongside the cherethities No one is quite clear who they are but people often assume that they were paid mercenaries used by King David in his struggle against Saul.

Not so much a region as a cluster of five cities (Ashkelon, Ashdod, Ekron, Gath and Gaza) which were where the Philistines lived. The Philistines were believed to have settled in Canaan from the west (possibly from Crete) who fought against the Isra...

The inhabitants of Philistia which was not so much a region as a cluster of five cities (Ashkelon, Ashdod, Ekron, Gath and Gaza) which were where the Philistines lived. The Philistines were believed to have settled in Canaan from the west (possibly ...

A Jewish scholar or teacher, normally a specialist in the Jewish law. In the first century Jewish Rabbis often taught small groups of students. The teaching was often more focussed on see the world as the Rabbi saw it than on content alone.

Used to describe the group of languages (and hence the people who spoke them) in the Ancient Near East. The name was first used in the 1770s and comes from the name of Noah's son, Shem. The term describes the languages and peoples who lived in...

The present Cornish Bible Project started in 1996. It is supported by the Cornish Language Board and the Bishop of Truro’s Ecumenical Advisory Group for Cornish Language. The Bible Society has also now taken the Project under its wing.

We’ve developed a wide range of resources to help you bring the Bible to life in your own context. From sermon support materials and small group discussion ideas to personal devotional programmes and children’s bedtime apps, there’s something f...

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Hebrews was written to encourage a group of Christians who had stood firm through persecution but who, over time, had become discouraged and whose faith had begun to be shaky. The author of the book holds up Jesus as an example to follow; he himself ...

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I grew up in Kumasi, a city in Ghana, the heart of Ghana really. There, church is part and parcel of your life as you grow up. My Dad bought me a Bible when I was very young and I used to enjoy looking things up in it. I joined a musical group at chu...

I’ve only been living here for 19 months. During that time my husband has had two operations and pancreatic cancer. He’s doing very well. But it’s been quite a time for me. I’m only now starting to meet people. What sustained me when I came h...

I lived on a farm in Suffolk. When I was 13, in 1944, I went to Dartmouth. We expected the war to go on for many, many more years. My parents thought I would be better as a naval officer than a squaddie in the Army. When I was 20, I came home for a t...

There are hundreds of verses from the Bible that comfort me, but this one galvanises me. It’s 1 John 5.12, “God offers us eternal life and it can be found only in his son. So, anyone who has genuine contact with Jesus Christ has eternal life, and...

I started fencing when I was 14 and became a coach at 18. When I was 19, I was given a job as a fencing coach working with national coaches, training others and being trained, working in some of the top public schools. I was living in this sport that...

‘In 2004 I was a primary school teacher. I decided to do some volunteer work over the summer. I stood at train stations helping people with where they wanted to go. There was a group of teenage girls mucking around. But I started talking to them an...

The passage that I go back to again and again is Luke 2.8-20, the story of the shepherds. When I was a child, everyone wanted to be an angel or Mary in the school play. But I was Herod, because I was a good reader and could say ‘diligently’! I ca...

I studied medicine at Oxford. It was awesome. I rowed and coxed, edited the medical school gazette and was on the student committee. I had a great group of friends. We went out and drank a lot, and basically, I got more and more fuelled by my own amb...