YOU WERE LOOKING FOR :Literal Interpretation of the Old Testament
Essays 31 - 60
deity, was the "first principle, the very foundation of the divinely willed order of things" (McCarthy 136). However, it is not e...
In a paper consisting of twenty five pages the Old Testament's Book of Daniel is extensively analyzed and presents the argument su...
than obey the command. A series of events finds Jonah in the belly of a great fish where he prays; he is spit up from the fish and...
In seven pages this essay examines Christianity in terms of the role played by Satan in both the Old Testament and the New Testame...
In eight pages the Old Testament's Book of Jeremiah is analyzed in terms of how the prophetic messages of Jeremiah were reflection...
This paper consists of five pages and discusses claims made by both theologians, John Dominic Crossan and Caroline Walker Bynum, ...
the meantime poor labourers...should yet get so hard and poor a living and live so wretched and miserable a life, that the state a...
a criminal action. The case was brought to clarify this, and the key element was the interpretation of the law by the judges....
vengeance". This passage highlights an extreme sense of violence, and reveals the chaos and out-of-control nature of the...
chapters, which are made up wise sayings, consisting of two lines of poetry. The majority of the book is attributed to King Solomo...
edification of readers who seek, like him, to try to deepen their understanding of Christianity. In accomplishing this task, Gre...
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...
Will Salvation Take You? 2004). The Bible specifically states that it is salvation that is the key to opening the kingdom of hea...
first part of the reign of Josiah (640-609 BCE) (Exegetical helps, 2004). The words of Zephaniah reflect the faithlessness of the...
phrases use in the Gospels is that is used exclusively by Christ and is never employed by his disciples or others, nor by early Ch...
Both from biblical and theological perspectives, scholars have increasingly recognized the distortions that have crept into the Ch...
Testament Law and the Ten Commandments express this relationship (Out of Egypt, 2003). One of the first examples of Gods...
holds the Greeks captive in his cave, into allowing them to escape by first blinding his one eye while he sleeps. However, Odysseu...
repair the ravages of human sinfulness" (OBrien, 1999, p. 16). However, the allure of worldliness proved too much for the Israeli...
special messages to the people. Jonah, who refused to take the message the Lord gave him into Nineveh, suffered the consequences o...
early restrictions and their application to Mosaic law, as well as an understanding of the role of Moses, are elements important i...
chapter, and discusses what God has done for the people of Israel. In this Sermon, Moses relates the actions that were taken that...
God Abraham received was detailed in Genesis as follows: "Go forth from your native land / And from your fathers house / And I wil...
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...
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...
King Sauls successor, as God has rejected Saul due to his disobedience.ix When Samuel comes to the house of Jesse in Bethlehem to ...
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...