Assyrian dictionary available

Assembling an Assyrian dictionary based on words recorded on clay or stone tablets unearthed from ruins in Iraq, Iran, Syria and Turkey, written in a language that hadn't been uttered for more than 2,000 years. A huge progject starte in 1921 came into fulfilment.

The Chicago Assyrian Dictionary is now officially complete — 21 volumes of Akkadian, a Semitic language (with several dialects, including Assyrian) that endured for 2,500 years.

Read more: Ancient World Dictionary Finished - After 90 Years

Kerk hospitaal voor zondaars

Rosemary Hardy zag op een aankondigingsbor van een kerk:

"De Kerk is geen museum voor heiligen, het is een ziekenhuis voor zondaars!"

Church is a Hospital for sinners

Rosemary Hard has seen on a church notice board

 " Church is not a museum for saints, its a hospital for sinners!"

Wees sterk en moedig

“De ENE,
Yahweh, Jehovah onze God,
behoed je uitgaan
en je binnenkomen
je gáan en je kómen,
—van nú en tót in éeuwigheid.”
(Psalmen 121:8)

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““Vrees niet,
want ik ben met je,
kijk niet angstig rond,
want ik ben je God;
sterken zal ik je,
ja helpen zal ik je,
ja je vasthouden met mijn rechterhand vol gerechtigheid.”
(Jesaja 41:10 NB)

Be strong and take courage

Yahweh preserves your going out
and your coming in,

from henceforth
even unto the age,
...
from the present
to the eon,

from this time
and
for
ever.

Psalm 121:8

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“Fear thou not, for I am with thee; {1} be not dismayed, for I am thy God;
I will strengthen thee; yea, I will help thee;
yea, I will uphold thee with the right hand of my righteousness.
{1) Or look not around thee}”
(Isaiah 41:10 ASV)