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duties. Leviticus 19:32-33 details the societal obligation to respect the elderly, and also instructs that strangers should not be...

essential attributes of a leader in any time. He shared that vision with others (Nehemiah : A Visionary Leader), another step take...

(Dearman, 1998) and we often hear that phrase being used to describe the relationship between Israel and God. He was the living Go...

painful as are disease and old age. It is painful not to have what we would like to have (Lorentz, 2007). In other words, life is ...

way to be part of the community.3 Each person had a role - the host would extend a graceful welcome to the guest and the guest wou...

it to them, saying, "Drink from it, all of you. This is my blood of the covenant, which is poured out for many for the forgiveness...

for this reference becomes clear, as Luke is writing "in a social context where marriages arranged for socio-political benefit bet...

The leading priest of a particular region was elected by his fellow priests to serve as bishop. These bishops became increasingly...

under the dominion of God. However, nothing in scripture -- or history for that matter -- suggests that human beings are similar...

This paper discusses scripture from the New Testament and examines what is involved in the mission of a servant of Jesus Christ. ...

Yahweh's personality and heterogeneous presentation as depicted in Hebrew scriptures are described in eight pages. Ten sources ar...

the tables of the moneychangers in the temple. Besides the symbolism of this act, which was to purify the temple from a "den of th...

in the Gospel according to John. Therefore, it seems appropriate, before addressing John 17 directly, to survey how the theme of u...

"great contribution" to the quest for the historical Jesus, according to Fredriksen, 2002, has been to formulate an "interpretativ...

This research paper begins by relating the topic of food production to Exodus 16 and 17, i.e., the narratives associated with the ...

Law of Christ. The Israelites believed that the Spirit of God lived in the Tabernacle, which is why it was guarded so carefully. I...

as his twelve disciples, and the authors of the books of the New Testament, as well as the vast majority of the earliest Christian...

only in extremes. Right versus left; rich versus poor; conservative versus liberal: all these factions are at each others throats ...

the laws regarding the firstborn, substituting something for an animal or a person (New International Version, Exod. 113:13; 34:20...

author explains, based on this belief, "slavery of Africans became religiously justifiable."iii Proslavery advocates based their c...

and people were referred to as sheep: "When he saw the crowds, he had compassion on them, because they were harassed and helpless,...

seeming "errors" in scriptural passages. The position of Charles A. Briggs on inerrancy Briggs maintained that neither the Scrip...

"Each individual book only becomes biblical in the light of the canon as a whole" (Pontifical Biblical Commission, 1994, Canonical...

political leaders say they pray for wisdom but they do not seem to be making wise decisions and Solomon did. This is one reason w...

Reformers argued that Gods grace changes or transforms lives. Calvin consistently wrote and preached about the Holy spirit through...

can help. Anderson points out that secular counseling is not holistic in that it does not generally include the persons spiritual...

mentioned again so we might assume that first man was not willing to follow without having a secure bed. In that case, a permanent...

This research paper/essay offers an overview, summary and comparison of Exodus 20 and Deuteronomy 5, which both pertain to the Dec...

This essay pertains to aspects of E. Randolph Richards and Brandon J. O'Brien's text Misreading Scripture with Western Eyes. The n...

This essay offers an overview of the issues associated with divorce and remarriage from the perspective of scripture and the Chris...