Eastern Orthodox Icons of the Virgin Mary - Burning Bush, Theotokos Fyodorovskaya, Black Madonna of Cz Stochowa, Our Lady of Perpetual Help (Paperback)

Please note that the content of this book primarily consists of articles available from Wikipedia or other free sources online. Pages: 33. Chapters: Burning bush, Theotokos Fyodorovskaya, Black Madonna of Cz stochowa, Our Lady of Perpetual Help, Panagia, Hodegetria, Blachernitissa, Annunciation of Ustyug, Panagia Portaitissa, Our Lady of Kazan, Our Lady of the Sign, Axion Estin, Life-giving Spring, Theotokos of Vladimir, Khakhuli triptych, Trojeru ica, Theotokos of Bogolyubovo, Brother Jose Munoz-Cortes, Eleusa icon, Our Lady of Kursk, Orans of Kiev, Theotokos of Miasena, Theotokos of Tolga, Joy of all who Sorrow, Theotokos of Pochayiv, Our Lady of the Don, Theotokos of Buchyn, Theotokos of Tikhvin, Inexhaustible Chalice, Theotokos Samarska. Excerpt: The burning bush is an object described by the Book of Exodus (3:1-21) as being located on Mount Horeb; according to the narrative, the bush was on fire, but was not consumed by the flames, hence the name. In the narrative, the burning bush is the location at which Moses was appointed by God to lead the Israelites out of Egypt and into Canaan. The Hebrew word used in the narrative, that is translated into English as bush, is seneh ( ), which refers in particular to brambles; seneh is a biblical dis legomenon, only appearing in two places, both of which describe the burning bush. It is possible that the reference to a burning bush is based on a mistaken interpretation of Sinai ( ), a mountain described by the Bible as being on fire, and some scholars think that the reference to the burning bush in Deuteronomy, in particular, might be a copyist's error, and may perhaps originally have been a reference to Sinai. Moses and the Burning Bush, attributed to Dirk Bouts.In the narrative, an angel of Yahweh is described as appearing in the bush, and God is subsequently described as calling out from it to Moses, who had been grazing Jethro's flocks there. When Moses starts to approach, God tells Moses to first take off hi...