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

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

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

subsequently challenged the witness will need to go and make an affidavit of due execution (Rowley, 2002). It is also nece...

Testament Law and the Ten Commandments express this relationship (Out of Egypt, 2003). One of the first examples of Gods...

special messages to the people. Jonah, who refused to take the message the Lord gave him into Nineveh, suffered the consequences o...

chapter, and discusses what God has done for the people of Israel. In this Sermon, Moses relates the actions that were taken that...

early restrictions and their application to Mosaic law, as well as an understanding of the role of Moses, are elements important i...

God Abraham received was detailed in Genesis as follows: "Go forth from your native land / And from your fathers house / And I wil...

Bible are commonly referred to as the Torah or the Pentateuch. Pleins (2001) argues that the juxtaposition of lists and codes foun...

of benefits an individual receives as the result of following Gods law in the Old Testament and by believing in and entrusting one...

under them split asunder; and the earth opened its mouth and swallowed them up, with their households and all the men that belonge...

so disfigured that three of his friends do not recognize him when they come to visit him. The three friends are Eliphaz, Bildad...

of Joshua (chs. 23-24) (Strange, 2002). A really interesting element in chapter 24 is its setting, as the entirety of its story ta...

first part of the reign of Josiah (640-609 BCE) (Exegetical helps, 2004). The words of Zephaniah reflect the faithlessness of the...

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

or to drive away evil. Enacted daily, monthly or seasonally or to honor special events, animals are offered to the gods as a toke...

In six pages this paper contrasts and compares how women were oppressed by law and society in the Old Testament and in Homer's epi...

(Hellwig, 2007). Like many Catholics, this woman followed everything the Church taught, followed all the rules, adhered to all the...

this festival secretly because He knew people were debating who He was (John 7:10). People were already plotting against Him (Keme...

a religious leader to one ruled by a king, that is, a political leader. Sauls downfall as a ruler is considered to be tragic in th...

and 1 Kings 11:3 indicates that the monarch of Israel had "seven hundred princesses and three hundred concubines." There is a gr...

out by Nehemiah in two sets, initially and then, upon his return (Eastons Bible Dictionary, 1897). The Book of Nehemiah informs t...

to bring a great flood that would cover the earth but Noah was a righteous man and God decided to save humanity through Noah and H...

also referred as "the law," due to the fact that they contain "the laws and instruction" that were handed down by God to Moses and...

no historical value to the Book of Esther and that it is a "work of the imagination, written for the purpose of popularizing the f...

has its own very distinctive following; while it may be partially entrenched within cultural reasons, the primary one is the level...

that she does not want to see him to go his death "not owning up to the part" that he played in death of his victim (Prejean 179)....

compensated for their time. This economic structure teaches children that nothing comes without fair exchange, and validates that...

successful, particularly in America, you must do the same thing over and over and over again" and NRBQ categorically refuses to do...