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Essays 61 - 90
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...
and 1 Kings 11:3 indicates that the monarch of Israel had "seven hundred princesses and three hundred concubines." There is a gr...
learned from Moses instruction (Hammer, 1995). When Joshua would become a ruler in his own right, he would always follow Moses ex...
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 ...
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...
so disfigured that three of his friends do not recognize him when they come to visit him. The three friends are Eliphaz, Bildad...
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...
first part of the reign of Josiah (640-609 BCE) (Exegetical helps, 2004). The words of Zephaniah reflect the faithlessness of the...
of Joshua (chs. 23-24) (Strange, 2002). A really interesting element in chapter 24 is its setting, as the entirety of its story ta...
of benefits an individual receives as the result of following Gods law in the Old Testament and by believing in and entrusting one...
codified into groups of laws, established the basis of laws established in future cultures. While punishments were severe, they re...
Old Testament as a straightforward history. Rather, both men advocate that these texts emerged as a "self-defining narrative of a ...
were captive in Babylon and, therefore, exposed to this culture. The traditional Jewish and Christian viewpoint has been that M...
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...
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...
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...
In five pages this paper examines prophets including Daniel Jonah, Ezekiel, Jeremiah, and Isaiah as they are featured in the Old T...
the people of Israel and the Almighty. The continuation of this covenant reaches from the past through to the new covenant represe...
In fifteen pages the letter St. Paul wrote to the Romans is considered within the context of whether today's society is sinful, if...
In eleven pages this research paper refers to the Old Testament in a consideration of why Jesus is not accepted as the Messiah by ...
In fifteen pages Old Testament theology is considered in various sections that include models, debates, and a discussion of theori...
In five pages these rituals and their importance as described in the Old Testament are discussed in a consideration of Leviticus' ...
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 The Book of Job from the Old Testament, Antigone by Sophocles, Crito and Apology by Plato, and The Clouds by Aristoph...