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Genesis/An Overview

the narratives in the books to come (Friedman 295). In Genesis, everything builds on everything else. Therefore, in order to under...

Genesis 1-2:3 Compared to Genesis 2:4-25

are differences, the two texts do not necessarily contradict each other. The account of creation in Chapter 1 is very detailed. ...

Day-Age Theory of Creation

While this fact does not indicate that the author of Genesis intentionally used the word "yom" to indicate the passage of billions...

Genesis 22:1-19

in the court of the Egyptian pharaoh. While the text asserts details of history, the larger concern to the authors of Genesis were...

The Origin of Evil

Testament. The general thought is that Moses wrote these texts during the forty years of the Exodus which would have been between ...

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...

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...

Genesis and Hesiod on Creation

sun and moon; animals, birds and fish; and finally, people. This took six days, and on the seventh day God rested from all this wo...

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...

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...

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...

Darwinism v. Creationism

creationism. The intelligent-design hypothesis (ID) has also recently gained public attention because of a science textbook, Of Pa...

Exegesis of Book Six of Genesis, Lines 1 through 4

In six pages the origins of this section of the Book of Genesis is interpreted in a variety of different ways. Six sources are ci...

Debate on Evolution vs. Cration

evolution gauntlet and run with it. Nevertheless, it goes without saying that there is a plethora of others who continue to espou...

Ancient Greece to the New Testament and Dreams, Oracles, and Prophecy

In eleven pages this paper discusses the concepts of interpreting the future through prophecy, by the prophets, and through dreams...

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...

Genesis 6:6 The Lord Was Grieved

in Scripture, such as in Isaiah: "yet they rebelled and grieved his Holy Spirit" (Isaiah 63:10), in Psalms: "How often they ...

Gilgamesh, Genesis: Comparing Floods

This essay contrasts and compares the way that the "Epic of Gilgamesh" and Genesis describe the Flood. The writer argues that the ...

A Primary Source Analysis: Genesis and American History

This essay analyzes the Book of Genesis and then discusses its impact on the worldview of Europeans during the sixteenth century a...

Attitudes and Free Will in the Book of Genesis and Paradise Lost by John Milton

in clear opposition to what is found in Genesis. The student will want to point out that Adam and Eve can easily relate...

Book of Genesis Definitions of Literary Terms

involves not only examining the authors words for literal meaning, but also considering the meanings behind symbolism and imagery....

Great Flood in the Book of Genesis and the Epic of Gilgamesh

Epic of Gilgamesh. Who was Gilgamesh? According to Biblical scholars who have researched ancient scrolls, Gilgamesh was a ...

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...

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...

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...

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...

'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...

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...

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...