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In 5 pages this paper examines the symbolic parallels that exist between Melville's Billy Budd, the biblical Adam, and Jesus Chris...
In eleven pages this paper discusses the Niobid Painter's 'attic red figure amphora' Greek vase and how such works provide importa...
pronouncements express a similar orientation, they are actually quite different because the positive form encompasses a "greater e...
born a Jew and lived under the Jewish law and system (Galatians 4:4). * Jesus life was characterized by service and humility (Phil...
Joseph the presentation of their early beginnings is told merely through the fact we see Mary pregnant and we watch the struggling...
sacrificed consorts who was killed by the Father Zeus after the fertility rite that coupled him with his Mother (Graves 89). Also ...
were buried in 1823, and John the Baptist, "who conferred the Aaronic Priesthood on Joseph Smith and Oliver Cowdery in Harmony, Pe...
He was the promised Messiah: The woman said to Him, "I know the Messiah is coming" (who is called Christ). "When He comes, He wil...
we have worked all night long but have caught nothing. Yet if you say so, I will let down the nets" (Luke 5: 5). Peter and his men...
Testament, these words generally refer to "service associated with the work done in the temple."6 In the New Testament, these word...
Rejoice, and be exceeding glad: for great is your reward in heaven: for so persecuted they the prophets which were before you" (Ma...
Luke 2.1 there is also the reference to the birth taking place in the time of the census of Quirinius, this was in 6 CE2, however ...
Jesus was more divine than he was human (Meacham 40). The issue that underscored the early ecumenical councils, once incidental ri...
Sacrificial leadership: Jesus sacrificed Himself for all of mankind (Chandra, 2004). Servant leadership is most often associated...
for Jesus to have gone into shock at that time. He was first beaten by the guards: "The men who were guarding Jesus began mocking...
age 12, Jesus was found in the Temple teaching Priests and Scribes about the law (Scott, 2000). In his very first chapter, Matthe...
great humility and eagerness to do as God wishes (Luke 1:39). She then travels to visit Elizabeth where she stays for three months...
King of Salem (ancient Jerusalem) befriended Abraham and his men after their victory over those kings that had taken Sodom and Gom...
as his hero. Achilles Achilles is the greatest of the Greek heroes fighting against the Trojans. As the poem begins, the war ha...
in their fathers footsteps. Like Jesus, John began preaching at the age of 30 (Catholic Online, 2007). His location was the banks...
offer mankind salvation through faith. He was put to death and rose from the dead. Aside from this the various Christian faiths po...
heaven. This theory places a considerable weight on morality as a deciding factor in determining our final fate. The logic is th...
a core belief of Christianity that one can find on any Christian Church Web site, regardless of whether that organization is a mai...
is believed that Johns Gospel was written much later than the other three and this could be one reason for the differences. Other ...
a recognized authority on the social setting of the new Testament (Powell, 2002). Although this is a work of fiction, Theissen ass...
of the same) is "reason" rather than the self-conscious "I." One may then extend the concept from ethical ideas to morality, whic...
the Mediterranean. Haarmann asserts that Marian devotion continues "the ancient goddess cults, and, thus, is a reflection of thei...
"great contribution" to the quest for the historical Jesus, according to Fredriksen, 2002, has been to formulate an "interpretativ...
of it that easily. This is remedied by the fact that she is given a very difficult choice to make. Does she want to be black, or...
that he did - when the masses desperately needed a "human" religion to cling to - was something that helped boost Jesus to "divine...