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phrase could mean the individual had a special relationship with God, therefore, they must learn the meaning of this in terms of J...
the "restored kingdom of David" (Hahn 28). Matthews Gospel perfectly typifies what Augustine meant when he commented that the "N...
under them split asunder; and the earth opened its mouth and swallowed them up, with their households and all the men that belonge...
Testament, these words generally refer to "service associated with the work done in the temple."6 In the New Testament, these word...
as his twelve disciples, and the authors of the books of the New Testament, as well as the vast majority of the earliest Christian...
following Gods first message to move but he did not wait to see if God would tell him the best path to take. There are certain par...
prophets was to convey a message from God to the People. They received the divine messages differently, some in a dream, some in a...
conflict with them but he avoided that. He could foresee that getting into a serious argument with his enemies would lead to unnec...
meeting with the other man, calling in elders and others to witness the exchange. The other man renounces his claim and takes off ...
learned from Moses instruction (Hammer, 1995). When Joshua would become a ruler in his own right, he would always follow Moses ex...
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...
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...
chapter, and discusses what God has done for the people of Israel. In this Sermon, Moses relates the actions that were taken that...
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...
Both from biblical and theological perspectives, scholars have increasingly recognized the distortions that have crept into the Ch...
Old Testament as a straightforward history. Rather, both men advocate that these texts emerged as a "self-defining narrative of a ...
codified into groups of laws, established the basis of laws established in future cultures. While punishments were severe, they re...
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 fifteen pages Old Testament theology is considered in various sections that include models, debates, and a discussion of theori...
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...
Will Salvation Take You? 2004). The Bible specifically states that it is salvation that is the key to opening the kingdom of hea...
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...
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...