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Women in Wartime and the Conflict between Public and Private Duty

and the misery of the battlefield. It came as a particular shock because the years just preceding it were a "golden age." From al...

Introduction to the Old Testament by Anthony Ceresko

Old Testament as a straightforward history. Rather, both men advocate that these texts emerged as a "self-defining narrative of a ...

Homer and the Old Testament

holds the Greeks captive in his cave, into allowing them to escape by first blinding his one eye while he sleeps. However, Odysseu...

Kings and Kingship in the Old Testament

repair the ravages of human sinfulness" (OBrien, 1999, p. 16). However, the allure of worldliness proved too much for the Israeli...

Torah Defined

Both from biblical and theological perspectives, scholars have increasingly recognized the distortions that have crept into the Ch...

Israelites and Codified Law

codified into groups of laws, established the basis of laws established in future cultures. While punishments were severe, they re...

Attitudes towards Slavery in the Old Testament

This paper offers an overview of Old Testament scripture that pertains to how the ancient Israelites regarded slavery and the fun...

The Testament by John Grisham

In five pages this research paper is formatted in the style of a legal memorandum that pertains to the fictitious case featured in...

Matthew's Gospel

of the Sower in Matthew 13:3-23. This parable talks of a farmer sowing the seed is not to be taken literally. The farmer is an ana...

Antigone and the Old Testament

In 1178 Maimonides completed Mishneh Torah, what he had hoped would be a compete authoritative code of Jewish law (both Oral and W...

Conflict, Brothers, and the Old Testament

In five pages this paper discusses the conflict represented by the relationships of brothers Absalom and Amnon, Jacob and Esau, an...

Book of Job, Sophocles, Plato, and Aristophanes on Justice

In six pages The Book of Job from the Old Testament, Antigone by Sophocles, Crito and Apology by Plato, and The Clouds by Aristoph...

Christianity's Relationship to Judaism

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

Old Testament Devotionals and Contemporary Interpretations

poured into thy lips: therefore God hath blessed thee for ever. Gird thy sword upon thy thigh, O most Mighty, with thy glory and t...

John's Messianic Ideas

John was familiar with Jewish ideas regarding the Messiah. He incorporated those ideas into his Gospel. He gently brings about the...

Three of the Prophets

wife was sexually involved with other men after they married (Smith, 2001). God demonstrates to Hosea the love He has for His peo...

The Behemoth and the Leviathan

be very difficult because it had armor-like scales that were so close they did not even let in air. The mystery may be solved. A f...

Twenty First Century Cultural Artifacts and Ideologies

643 Life in the twenty-first century has become more of a...

An Old Testament Lesson Plan

This paper consisting of ten pages describes how to teach adults Old Testament theology in a Sunday school environment and conside...

Classical Literature Identity Questions

In five pages this paper examines the definition of identity in the works of Euripides, Sophocles, Sappho's poetry, the Oresteia, ...

Old Testament Theology and an Adult Sunday School Lesson

In this paper that consists of nine pages the theology of the Old Testament and adult learning converge in this lesson plan for an...

Comparing Marital Attitudes by the Hebrews and Ancient Greeks

allowing them to be less complex than they often are in real life. In the Old Testament in the bible, they tend to be rather simpl...

Old Testament God's Volatile Nature

just as many parents find they have to resort to what has come to be known as "tough love," God of the Hebrew scriptures certainly...

Old Testament and Women

The temptress or protector roles of women in the Bible's Old Testament are discussed in a paper consisting of 5 pages. There are ...

Comparing the Book of Job and Oedipus Rex

in and curse God. He tells his wife, advising her that, just as they accept good from the hand of God, they have to also be willin...

Old Testament Prophets

In five pages this paper examines prophets including Daniel Jonah, Ezekiel, Jeremiah, and Isaiah as they are featured in the Old T...

Esther, Nehemiah, and Ezra

the people of Israel and the Almighty. The continuation of this covenant reaches from the past through to the new covenant represe...

Analyzing Romans 1: 18-32

In fifteen pages the letter St. Paul wrote to the Romans is considered within the context of whether today's society is sinful, if...

Rebekah and Nausicaa in the Bible and Homer's 'The Odyssey'

This paper examines the power by women in ancient Hebrew and Greek societies as represented by Rebekah in the Old Testament and Na...

Old Testament Books of Jonah, Amos, and Hosea

In six pages this paper examines these Old Testament prophet books in terms of their names' meaning and also contrasts and compare...