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Analyzing A History of the World in 10 1/2 Chapters by Julian Barnes

fictional historical account, as the author uses a host of unusual situations and characters to dramatize historical interpretatio...

God's Image and Genesis

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

Genesis 16 and 17 Exegesis

fulfill His promise but the sinfulness of humans invaded Abrams and Sarais souls. They needed a child and Sarai blamed God for le...

Analyzing the Biblical Eve

the traditional interpretation of Eve as the originator of all sin and death for the human race. However, the student may wish to ...

Issue of Mortality in Literature and in Life

is common knowledge. Who does not worry about death? Even children, from a very young age, often ask the ultimate question which i...

Darwin's Theory and Genesis

occurrence of profitable variations" (Darwin IV). This offers the reader an understanding of how change and alteration creates new...

Christian and Islam Views on Creation

Adam and Eve, in the Garden of Eden and God as Creator. However, at this point, with the intervention of the devil, there is a cru...

Book of Genesis and Epic of Gilgamesh

(Tablet XI). As this indicates the Babylonian myth does not associate the disaster of the floor with any sort of immorality. Lik...

Islam vs. Christianity, a Comparison

sixteenth century when Martin Luther, an Augustinian monk, nailed 95 complaints against the Roman Catholic Church on the church do...

Analysis of the Vedic Hymn of Creation

not concerned with the creation of man but rather with the creation and evolution of the cosmos. Eliade (1995), however, notes th...

Biblical Eve in Genesis

1 Tim. 2:11-15 as indicating that Gods plan for the sexes is for male to dominate female. This New Testament passage directs women...

Piety, the Bible, Sophocles, and Plato

surely bless you and make your descendant as numerous as the stars in the sky." Because Abraham never questioned a divine commandm...

God and Sin

God says, "Behold, the man is become as one of us, to know good and evil" and then "sent him forth from the garden of Eden, to til...

A Comparison of a Biblical Story with Racine's Phaedra

both works. The fact that Joseph rejects the advances of his bosss wife does not mean he is not interested in her. While she was p...

She Unnames Them By Le Guin

man called each living creature, that was its name" (Genesis 2:19). Adam gave names to all of them "But, for Adam no suitable help...

Role of the Feminine in Ancient Creation Myth

males. In both "Enuma Elish" and in Hesiods mythology, the Earth goddess is described in terms of motherhood. Tiamet first rages a...

Essays on Mythology

and furthermore substantiates the domination of men over women. The clear message is that the patriarchal, punishing Jehovah shoul...

Creation As Found In Genesis 1 & 2

of the work to be don, the formation of a creature" (1871). The creature is to be Gods representative who has the authority over a...

Chapter One of Genesis and the Rig Veda Indian Creation Myth

In four pages this paper compares the creation myths found in the first chapter of the Book of Genesis and 'In the Beginning' of t...

Louis Dumont and Economic Ideology

In eight pages Louis Dumont's From Mandeville to Marx The Genesis and Triumph of Economic Ideology is examined through an applic...

Cultural Influence of the Book Of Genesis

In five pages this essay examines the influence of the Book of Genesis on such authors as William Faulkner and Thornton Wilder. T...

Judaism, Christianity, and Life's Meaning

outlook by blaming someone or something else, thus we will remaining in a ?status quo? personality and spirit all our life, never ...

Dreams of Joseph in Genesis 37

In two pages this paper examines Genesis 37 in terms of Joseph's dreams and their significance. There is no bibliography included...

French Revolution from 2 Perspectives

well as the commoners demanded a constitution and a new regime in which personal rights would be respected. In discussing the cal...

British Literature and the Theme of Sin

In fifteen pages this paper discusses how sin is depicted in the Books of Genesis and Romans as well as how it is thematically dev...

Analyzing Ezekiel 28:13

In five pages the writer equates the creation mystery and man's downfall described in Genesis with this passage along with an anal...

Genesis, Gilgamesh, and the Flood

In 5 pages this paper considers the significance of the Great Flood story retelling in the Epic of Gilgamesh and in the Book of Ge...

Genesis Chapter 22, Exegesis of Lines 1 through 19

In five pages most of Genesis' Chapter 22 is analyzed in order to determine Abraham's test significance. Five sources are cited i...

'The Odyssey' by Homer, the Book of Genesis, Retribution and Faith

In a paper consisting of six pages this paper examines how the themes of faith anf retribution are reprsented in the 'Noah and the...

The Bible - Fact or Fiction?

This 8 page paper considers whether the Bible is fact or myth, and whether or not it provides an accurate account of real people a...