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Odysseus Compared with Genesis' Jacob

son of Odysseus, wearing a disguise and instills in him the courage to challenge the suitors of his mother. Additionally Athena pe...

The Changing Face of Jesus by Geza Vermes

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

Bible's Depiction of the Family

In five pages this paper examines how family and family issues are presented in the biblical stories of Amnon and Tamar and Abraha...

Samuel and Moses Bible Stories

In Samuel, the story begins with Hannah and her husband. The woman had prayed to the Lord for a child and soon she was blessed wit...

Civil Rights Movement and Exodus Theme

the slavery imposed upon the Hebrews and the social slavery imposed upon supposedly "free" African Americans were both forms of ri...

Contradictions in the Biblical Story of David

asks David directly whose son he is, when in the previous chapter, it appeared that David was Sauls favorite and the Saul was ver...

Elizabethan Drama, Scriptures, and the Christian Church

In fact, Lewis Wagers 1567 morality play based on biblical teachings, The Life and Repentance of Mary Magdalene, presented a chara...

Biblical Preaching by Haddon Robinson

suspecting that the sophisticated members of their congregations have more faith in scientific texts than do in the words of a min...

Jewish Uprising in Warsaw, Poland in 1943

when David was witness to Goliaths rantings, David offered to fight the Giant in order to allow victory over the Philistines (The ...

Opposing Same Sex Marriages Within a United Methodist Church Context

measure of repetition. According to information from the United Methodist News Service (05-09-00), the issue has come up at every ...

Belshazzar's Feast by Rembrandt Van Rijn

on the boundaries between the Christian world and the largest Jewish community in Holland (Internet source). Kren and Marx (2002) ...

Craig L. Blomberg's Historical Reliability of the Gospels

that not only are the documents logically from a particular time period, but they are evaluated in the context of history. Thus, i...

Business and Christian Ethics

short cuts are not. In order to create a business enterprise based on Christian morals, one may want to follow the six basic busin...

Priesthood and Celibacy

a mandate for priests (McGovern, 2003). We also know that married priests were common because St. Paul told Titus and Timothy that...

'Paradise Lost' by John Milton, Christianity, and Classics

very important fact when considering the relationship between the classics and Christianity in Miltons poem by stating the followi...

Biblical Times and Methodology

might question authenticity, this author has taken the time to document sources and uses a variety of these. He in facts blends a ...

An Exposition of 2 Corinthians 2:17

American Standard Bible). Further exegetical examination of this verse immediately brings up several questions. First of all, to...

Biblical Scripture's Doctrine of Inerrancy

unique personalities and writing styles (Thiessen, 1979). Theissen explains that the Holy Spirit supervised these writers to insur...

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...

Different Interpretations of Biblical Events Lord Byron's View of the Story of Cain and Abel

that neither knowledge nor life are two evils to be chosen between, but that they are both good. Why would God care to call either...

Exegesis of John 17, Lines 6 through 10

the world (Lueking, 1997). As this indicates, Luekings interpretation of these verses is fairly straight forward, as he sees it as...

Exegesis of Ezra Chapter 9, Lines 10 through 14

The modern reader may have difficulty in understanding Ezras position. After all, the major sin that he accuses the people of comm...

Christ's Disciple Mary Magdalene

After having a baby, women were considered unclean and forbidden from entering the synagogue for a month; if the baby were a girl,...

Ethics and the Old Testament

with relatively few regrets about the past. Many of the laws of society can be traced to the tenets of the Ten Commandments...

Theological Writing

falls into this category (Malcheski, 2002). The essay is not necessarily objective in that the writer is attempting to argue for a...

Using a Particular Biblical Genre to Preach the Gospels of Jesus Christ

it is not always easy to let go of what is of this earth; worldly possessions are so hard to come by, some people make them the fo...

Analysis of the Book of Nehemiah

those of the chronicler is in fact a possibility. Time and time again, Whitehead provides evidence of Nehemiahs action, ...

Medieval Literature, Biblical Allusions and Religious Symbolism

all of its aspects. This also ties in with the idea that they are traveling to the city of Canterbury to be redeemed. Here, the po...

'Last Man' and Friedrich Nietzsche

reference regarding a camel fitting through the eye of the needle. Certainly, Nietzsche did not mean to suggest anything beyond th...

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 ...