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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...

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) ...

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...

Unified Christian Belief

In six pages this paper examines the unity of belief that was called for by The Second Vatican Council's Dogmatic Constitution on ...

'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...

The Argument that Abortion is 'Wrong'

and I ordained thee a prophet unto the nations. Then said I, Ah, Lord GOD! behold, I cannot speak: for I am a child. But the Lor...

Exegesis of the Seventh Chapter of Luke, Lines 11 to 17

behind him. As Jesus approached the town gate (Luke 7:12), a funeral procession for an only son was coming out of the gate. The...

Exegesis of Luke 18, Lines 1 through 8

says, emphasizing that God will bring justice to his chosen ones who cry out for his help. These truth are put in a series of ques...

Exegesis of Ezra Chapter 9, Lines 6 through 15

face to thee, my God." In this context, the word "blush" appears to be used to emphasize the degree of shame that Ezra feels over...

A Critical Reading of a Passage from Chuck Palahniuk's Fight Club

Christs face and that an imprint of His face was then left on the cloth. There is also the Turin Shroud, also that is said to have...

The Cultural Heritage of the West and Its Ancient Roots

in the article "Key Iraqi weapons official held" in relation to topics studied in the roots of Western Culture deal primarily with...

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...

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...

Key Women Studied in a Character Biblical Presentation

of women in the Bible as well. In these portrayals we learn that there is that there is a certain propriety in the world. Propri...

Christian Educational Philosophy

and symbols, that is, how abstract ideas are communicated through the mediums of language, writing and also through visual communi...

Story of the Religious Leader Joshua

learned from Moses instruction (Hammer, 1995). When Joshua would become a ruler in his own right, he would always follow Moses ex...

'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...

Role of Biblical Criticism/Luke's Gospel

for this reference becomes clear, as Luke is writing "in a social context where marriages arranged for socio-political benefit bet...

Online Education: Balancing School With Other Life Responsibilities

wanting them to enroll in non-credit continuing education courses associated with their existing position; soon, these classes seg...

Biblical Imagery in Moby Dick by Herman Melville

journey. Immediately, the reader is shocked by Ahabs assertion and assumption that he is like God, that he holds the ultimate po...

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 ...

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...