- James J. Hill fit the nickname “empire builder.” He assembled a rail network—the Great Northern (1878), the Northern Pacific (1896), and the Chicago, Burlington and Quincy (1901)—that stretched from Duluth to Seattle across the north, and from Chicago south to St. Louis and then west to Denver. He was one of the most successful railroad magnates of his time.
- Hebrews in Greek (ancientlibrary.net)
Composed in the most polished Greek of the New Testament, Hebrews is an anonymous first-century homily-like epistle written in Koine Greek. Reading Christ through the institutions of Israel’s scriptures, it presents him as the great high priest whose single sacrifice surpasses the old covenant, and it exhorts wavering believers to persevere in faith.