Month: September 2021

One motif that appears over and over again in the Bible is the image of the barren woman.  All the matriarchs of Genesis had problems having children: Sarah, Rebekah, and Rachel; and
 the motif appears again in the New Testament:

If you could go back in time and speak with a 1st-century Roman about crucifixion and how the empire used them, what would they say?
 They might say that “… By [the cross] barbarian nations are subdued, by it the scepters of kings

One of the first type-scenes, or conventions, in scripture that we’re going to look at is Annunciations. “Annunciation” is a Latin word that essentially means, “announcement.”  But, for the original biblical readers, what would they have expected when an announcement