YOU WERE LOOKING FOR :Literal Interpretation of the Old Testament
Essays 31 - 60
In a paper consisting of twenty five pages the Old Testament's Book of Daniel is extensively analyzed and presents the argument su...
book touches on many mundane matters. How to get through life and understand its wrath is truly lifes most contemplated topics and...
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...
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...
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...
This paper consists of five pages and discusses claims made by both theologians, John Dominic Crossan and Caroline Walker Bynum, ...
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...
In five pages these rituals and their importance as described in the Old Testament are discussed in a consideration of Leviticus' ...
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 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...
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...
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...
this festival secretly because He knew people were debating who He was (John 7:10). People were already plotting against Him (Keme...
A devout person will say that he or she "sees" "God in all things" (Hodges 101). This person is referring to an act of "intuitive ...