Word: samaria
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...Semitic Museum, on Thursday and Monday afternoons, at 3.30 o'clock, five illustrated lectures, based on his residence in Palestine during 1906-07. The dates and subjects are as follows: March 19, Jerusalem; March 23, Southern Palestine; March 26, Central and Northern Palestine; March 30, Recent Excavations; April 2, Samaria and the Samaritan Passover. These lectures will be open to the public...
...invitation to undertake this task came to Professor Reisner he had been on leave of absence for the past two years and was conducting excavations at Gizeh for this University and the Boston Museum of Fine Arts, and was also under appointment as director of the Harvard Exploration of Samaria in Palestine. The delay at Constantinople in allowing a permit to dig at Samaria made it uncertain whether the application would be granted or not. In October last the permit was finally issued, and the actual work will probably begin next spring. The spring and summer are unfavorable for work...
...lavishness God scatters blessings on fruitful and unfruitful soil." And what Jesus meant by the lavishness and prodigality of God was revealed in his own life--a life that never spared its energies, that gave of its richest and fullest powers to the outcast woman at the well in Samaria, to the fishermen by the sea of Galilee to the thief upon the cross. He knew that of the seeds he scattered so lavishly, though many fell amid rocks and thorns, some would fall where they would yield fruit, "some thirty, some sixty, some an hundred fold;" through his prodigality...
...person rebuked in these words is Simon Magus, who, while journeying in Samaria, encounters St. Peter and St. John, who have brought the gift of a new illumination to the converts of the young deacon Philip. They have taught and blessed, and the marvelous tokens of this transforming presence straightway became manifest in them. Simon sees and wonders at it and eager to rouse a kindred ardor says: "Give me this power, that on whomsoever I lay hands, he may receive the Holy Ghost." The text is St. Peter's answer...
...photographs, nearly 1,000 in number, give an excellent view of Semitic scenes; the mountains, lakes and rivers of Palestine and North Syria, the cities of Jerusalem, Jericho, Samaria and Tyre, the ruins of Petra...