Old Testament

Nebuchadnezzar was a mighty king of Babylon and in the Book of Daniel had a dream, which Daniel interpreted as meaning that the mighty king would eat grass like an ox, and this is just what happened soon afterwards. This story was apparently based on a Jewish propaganda scroll, a portion of which was discovered among the Dead Sea Scrolls and is now known as 4Q242 or the Prayer of Nabonidus.

The text of 4Q242 is intermediate between Babylonian texts and the Book of Daniel, and shows how the story evolved from the historical original through an intermediate, semi-historical stage to the entirely fictional story in Daniel.

Answer 1

Although the Bible offers sparse information regarding Jonah's background, he is mentioned in 2 Kings 14:25 as being from Gath-hepher in Galilean Zebulun, which suggests he was of the tribe of Zebulun.

Answer 2

At 2 Kings 14:25, we learn a little about Jonah's background. He was from Gath-hepher, just two and a half miles [4 km] from Nazareth, the town where Jesus Christ would grow up some eight centuries later. Jonah served as a prophet during the reign of King Jeroboam II of the ten-tribe kingdom of Israel.

There was no person called 'Leviticus'. The book of Leviticus in the Bible comes from the Greek translation of the scriptures called the 'Septuagint' where this particular book was called 'Leuitikon' or 'matters of the Levites'. The Levites were one of the twelve tribes of Israel, and were named after Levi who was one of the 12 sons of Jacob, (who later had his name changed to Israel.)

However, in one respect the book of Leviticus isnamed after people :-

Leviticus 1: Verse 1 And the LORD called unto Moses, and spake unto him out of the tabernacle

of the congregation, saying,

The book opens with the Hebrew word, arq.YIw: vayiqara, which means "and He called...." This is the title of the book in the Hebrew text. The Greek translators of the Septuagint devised the title Leviticus as it deals with institutions committed to the priests, who were of the tribe of Levi.

The Talmud, for similar reasons, calls it "the law of the priests."

The Church is the eklesia, the "called-out ones." This is a book for those who are called out-saved: Thus, it is a message for [Christians]."

[From Notes on "Leviticus" BIB 504 by Chuck Missler]

Yes. If as is popularly supposed, the Book of Exodus was written by Moses himself during the Exodus from Egypt, then it must have occurred at just about the time that the biblical record says that it was. If the Pentateuch (Genesis, Exodus, Leviticus, Numbers and Deuteronomy) was written much later than is popularly believed, it places both its authorship and historical background in doubt.

The Bible makes it fairly clear from the genealogical lists that the Exodus from Egypt occurred approximately 1440 BCE and that by 1400 BCE the Israelites were swarming across the Jordan River to conquer and destroy all the Canaanite cities in their path. Yet archaeologists see no significant change in the size or makeup of the population of the Palestinian hinterland until around 1250 BCE, when there seems to have been a peaceful influx of people.

The Amarna tablets, which date from the mid-fourteenth century, contain many letters from Egyptian officials and local princes all over Palestine, addressed to their Egyptian overlord. The local princes were busy with squabbling and infighting, but there was no mention of a new military power that had either settled in Palestine or was seeking dominion over their cities. This is convincing proof that Palestine and Syria (Damascus) were under Canaanite rule, subject to Egyptian military control, long after the supposed conquest of Palestine.

The Israelite arrival in Palestine was much later than the biblical account suggests and archaeologists say that there does not seem to have any military conquest. Moreover, Israel Finkelstein says that over ninety per cent of scholars do not believe that there was an Exodus from Egypt as described in the Bible. The Pentateuch now has to be understood in the knowledge that much, if not all, of it must have been legend.

Elijah (Hebrew: אליהו, Eliyahu ; also known as Elias) was a prophet in Israel in the 9th century BC. He appears in the Hebrew Bible, Talmud, Mishnah, Christian Bible, and the Qur'an. According to the Books of Kings, Elijah raised the dead, brought fire down from the sky, and ascended into heaven on a whirlwind. In many parts of the New Testament, both Jesus and John the Baptist are frequently thought to be Elijah. Based on a prophecy in Malachi, many Jews still await his return as precursor to the coming of the Messiah.

Quick reference;

John the Baptist as Elijah;

; Mark 9:13 : But I say unto you, That Elias is indeed come, and they have done unto him whatsoever they listed, as it is written of him. :

(3:1; 4:1, 5) "The day cometh"

The gospel of Mark claims that John the Baptist fulfilled the prophecy given in Malachi. But the Malachi prophecy says that God will send Elijah before "the great and dreadful day of the LORD" in which the world will be consumed by fire. Yet John the Baptist flatly denied that he was Elijah (Elias) in John 1:21 and the earth was not destroyed after John's appearance. Malachi Prophecy;4:1 For, behold, the day cometh, that shall burn as an oven; and all the proud, yea, and all that do wickedly, shall be stubble: and the day that cometh shall burn them up, saith the LORD of hosts, that it shall leave them neither root nor branch. 4:5Behold, I will send you Elijah the prophet before the coming of the great and dreadful day of the LORD: