The 117th US Congress had an opening prayer by Protestant pastor and Missouri Democratic representative Emanuel Cleaver in which he prayed to the Hindu deity Brahma and ended with the words amen and a-woman. Does "amen" have to do with gender? The next day the US House of Representatives adopted a proposal forbidding the use of gendered terms in rules documents. The changes mean that the rules document will use language such as …
Original Order of the Books of the Bible
Is the 'traditional order' of books of the Bible found in most Bibles the original one? If not, where did it come from? Was the Roman Catholic saint Jerome involved? What was the order according to the Jews? Are the 22 books according to the Jews the same as the 39 books of the Old Testament according to Christians? What is the Torah, Nevi'im, Ketuvim, and the Tanakh? Did Dr. Ernest Martin do scholarly research into the original order of the books of the Bible? …