A Man of Many Hats (16 of 66)
Series: Route 66: A Road Trip Through the Bible
Tony Thomas
Nehemaih
Alexander Whyte was a Scottish theologian who wrote a book in 1910 titled, Favorite Bible Characters. The first printing had 69 chapters and Nehemiah was No. 69! That book was so popular that he expanded his list to include 159 (Nehemiah is nowhere near the bottom!).
Whyte admits that he wasn't immediately drawn to Nehemiah, but his opinion improved. Nehemiah was patriotic about his country, he was a very outspoken man, God gave him a tough hide - and he was graced with a tender heart, as well.
In the book that bears his name, Nehemiah wears three hats. The first hat is royalty as cupbearer to Artaxerxes. The second hat is labor as he rebuilds the walls around Jerusalem. And the third hat is politician as Governor of Judah.
Nehemiah is best read in light of his circumstances. He was a child of the first Jewish Holocaust. His parents were taken into captivity and deported. Consequently, he never experienced freedom until he returned to Jerusalem in the third wave of exiles under Zerubbabel and Ezra.
I'm reading a book by Marie Jalowicz Simon titled, Underground in Berlin. Simon was born into a wealthy, Jewish family. In 1938, all Jews with Polish passports were expelled. Then, all Jewish students were expelled from school. When her parents suddenly died, Simon was forced to fend for herself
At the age of 20 in 1942, she saw friends and family members being rounded up for deportation; or forced into menial labor for the Nazi's; or transported to concentration camps for extermination. She decided to go underground - to disappear - until the war was over.
Marie Jalowicz Simon removed her yellow star, took on an assumed identity, lived with the strangest of bedfellows and somehow, she survived - while 90% of the Jews in Europe died at Auschwitz, Dachau and Ravensbruck.
After the war, Simon became Professor of Cultural History at Humboldt Univer ...
Series: Route 66: A Road Trip Through the Bible
Tony Thomas
Nehemaih
Alexander Whyte was a Scottish theologian who wrote a book in 1910 titled, Favorite Bible Characters. The first printing had 69 chapters and Nehemiah was No. 69! That book was so popular that he expanded his list to include 159 (Nehemiah is nowhere near the bottom!).
Whyte admits that he wasn't immediately drawn to Nehemiah, but his opinion improved. Nehemiah was patriotic about his country, he was a very outspoken man, God gave him a tough hide - and he was graced with a tender heart, as well.
In the book that bears his name, Nehemiah wears three hats. The first hat is royalty as cupbearer to Artaxerxes. The second hat is labor as he rebuilds the walls around Jerusalem. And the third hat is politician as Governor of Judah.
Nehemiah is best read in light of his circumstances. He was a child of the first Jewish Holocaust. His parents were taken into captivity and deported. Consequently, he never experienced freedom until he returned to Jerusalem in the third wave of exiles under Zerubbabel and Ezra.
I'm reading a book by Marie Jalowicz Simon titled, Underground in Berlin. Simon was born into a wealthy, Jewish family. In 1938, all Jews with Polish passports were expelled. Then, all Jewish students were expelled from school. When her parents suddenly died, Simon was forced to fend for herself
At the age of 20 in 1942, she saw friends and family members being rounded up for deportation; or forced into menial labor for the Nazi's; or transported to concentration camps for extermination. She decided to go underground - to disappear - until the war was over.
Marie Jalowicz Simon removed her yellow star, took on an assumed identity, lived with the strangest of bedfellows and somehow, she survived - while 90% of the Jews in Europe died at Auschwitz, Dachau and Ravensbruck.
After the war, Simon became Professor of Cultural History at Humboldt Univer ...
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