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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...
is far more to life than just that of worldly possessions -- it taught the value of life at its purist form. These same teachings...
Bible are commonly referred to as the Torah or the Pentateuch. Pleins (2001) argues that the juxtaposition of lists and codes foun...
In five pages this essay explores the concepts of unity and hope in terms of their similarities as revealed in the messages contai...
Salvation and redemption are examined within the context of the Old and New Testaments and the possible contradictory aspects of t...
of the Sower in Matthew 13:3-23. This parable talks of a farmer sowing the seed is not to be taken literally. The farmer is an ana...
In five pages these rituals and their importance as described in the Old Testament are discussed in a consideration of Leviticus' ...
In six pages this paper examines Jerusalem's symbolic importance in a consideration of both Old and New Testaments along with Acts...
In six pages The Book of Job from the Old Testament, Antigone by Sophocles, Crito and Apology by Plato, and The Clouds by Aristoph...
In 1178 Maimonides completed Mishneh Torah, what he had hoped would be a compete authoritative code of Jewish law (both Oral and W...
In eleven pages this research paper refers to the Old Testament in a consideration of why Jesus is not accepted as the Messiah by ...
as revealed in the literary/mythological writings of ancient Greece. In "The Iliad," for example, when the mighty warrior Achille...
In five pages this paper discusses the conflict represented by the relationships of brothers Absalom and Amnon, Jacob and Esau, an...
In five pages this paper examines the definition of identity in the works of Euripides, Sophocles, Sappho's poetry, the Oresteia, ...
A number of consistent themes run through the Bible. This paper focuses on three of them, giving examples from the Old and New Tes...
war is used in both Old and New Testament texts, there is definitively a difference in the way in which this language is used and ...
In seven pages this essay examines several Old and New Testament books and includes the four gospels, and books on Ecclesiastes, D...
In five pages this paper examines the Holy Bible's Old and New Testaments, 'The Odyssey' of Homer, and William Shakespeare's Hamle...
In six pages this essay discusses gods laws, obedience, rewards and punishments as they pertain to 2 Books of Kings in the Old Tes...