... . 34 refers to Shechem as the town led by Hamor the Hivite (G. E. Mendenhall, The Tenth Generation [Baltimore: Johns Hopkins University Press, 1973], p. 156). Anatolian archaeological evidence at Shechem indicates the presence of Hivites. Hivites are also located at Gibeon (Josh. 9:7; 2 Sam. 21:2; lit. Amorites or westerners) and at the foot of Mount Hermon, in the land of Mizpah (Josh. 11:3). Fourteen of the lists place Jebusites after the Hivites. The ethnic identity of Perizzites and Girgashites is more ...
... . In 2:12, Job’s friends weep, tear their robes, and throw dust over their heads, all traditional expressions of grief and mourning (cf. Josh. 7:6; 1 Sam. 4:12; 2 Sam. 13:19; Ezek. 27:30). By these visual symbols of burial and decay, they identify with the ... with our spirit. Film: The Elephant Man. In this 1980 drama based on the true story of Joseph Merrick (played by Anthony Hopkins) in nineteenth-century England, a hideously disfigured man is treated by others as though he is not a human. So deformed that ...
