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Message of Jeremiah Reflects His Life

In eight pages the Old Testament's Book of Jeremiah is analyzed in terms of how the prophetic messages of Jeremiah were reflection...

History of the Hebrews

author points out, it would be impossible to spend as much time on each and every event and person mentioned in the Old Testament....

Biblical Basis for Worship

Law of Christ. The Israelites believed that the Spirit of God lived in the Tabernacle, which is why it was guarded so carefully. I...

The Principles of Spiritual Leadership

long prayer of confession.6 It may be because of Ezras knowledge and profound faith that God called him to serve in a different wa...

Ezra 9, Verses 6 through 9 Sample Sermon

In ten pages this research paper represents a sermon sample that focuses upon temptations are related to Ezra's message. Six sour...

Covenants and the Book of Ruth

in. She only wants to obey and to serve. In this manner she transcends the one covenant. And, on the other side, she demonstrates ...

Proverbs, Job & Ecclesiastes

chapters, which are made up wise sayings, consisting of two lines of poetry. The majority of the book is attributed to King Solomo...

Old Testament Larger than Life Characters

influences on the society in which they lived. Daniel was challenged throughout his life by a number of circumstances, one of whi...

Old Testament Questions

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...

Old Testament Survey

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...

Readings of the Old Testament Books of Genesis, Samuel, Ruth, and Judges

was not of Gods people. This, along with other social expectations, brought about a clear division of the people and set the stage...

Old Testament Presentation of Persia

Israel was under the Persian hegemony, was instrumental in shaping Judaism, as well as in the formulation of the Hebrew teachings ...

Ethics and the Old Testament

with relatively few regrets about the past. Many of the laws of society can be traced to the tenets of the Ten Commandments...

Old Testament and Why It Should Be Studied

others and did not "defile" themselves by adopting the customs of the cultures to which they were exposed. It is this covenant tha...

Old Testament and Deliverance of People by God

Testament Law and the Ten Commandments express this relationship (Out of Egypt, 2003). One of the first examples of Gods...

Old Testament Book Of Ruth

(Ruth 1:3). The sons married Moab women but about ten years later, both sons died (Ruth 1:3). Ruth was one of the widows of Naomis...

Kings and Kingship in the Old Testament

repair the ravages of human sinfulness" (OBrien, 1999, p. 16). However, the allure of worldliness proved too much for the Israeli...

Literal Interpretation of the Old Testament

were captive in Babylon and, therefore, exposed to this culture. The traditional Jewish and Christian viewpoint has been that M...

Homer and the Old Testament

holds the Greeks captive in his cave, into allowing them to escape by first blinding his one eye while he sleeps. However, Odysseu...

Old Testament Book of Job

that all that happens is not simply between God and man. There is another party - Satan. The Book of Job presents a war between Go...

Old and New Testaments and the Theme of Salvation

Will Salvation Take You? 2004). The Bible specifically states that it is salvation that is the key to opening the kingdom of hea...

Old Testament Passage Joshua 24, Verses 1 to 28

of Joshua (chs. 23-24) (Strange, 2002). A really interesting element in chapter 24 is its setting, as the entirety of its story ta...

Covenant Theme in the Old Testament

Bible are commonly referred to as the Torah or the Pentateuch. Pleins (2001) argues that the juxtaposition of lists and codes foun...

Understanding the Old Testament by Bernhard Anderson

of envisioning and grasping the full significance of difficult passages. In his preface, Anderson outlines his general approach....

Old Testament and Salvation

of benefits an individual receives as the result of following Gods law in the Old Testament and by believing in and entrusting one...

Introduction to the Old Testament by Anthony Ceresko

Old Testament as a straightforward history. Rather, both men advocate that these texts emerged as a "self-defining narrative of a ...

Changes in Idolatry from the Old Testament to the Modern Era

In six pages idolatry definition changes are examined in a consideration of past to present with contemporary rock star ideology c...

Conflict, Brothers, and the Old Testament

In five pages this paper discusses the conflict represented by the relationships of brothers Absalom and Amnon, Jacob and Esau, an...

Old Testament, 'The Odyssey,' 'Epic of Gilgamesh' and Social Function in Literature

in mind we present an examination of Gilgamesh as he illustrates the struggle for social function, or mortality, despite the inter...

Antigone and the Old Testament

In 1178 Maimonides completed Mishneh Torah, what he had hoped would be a compete authoritative code of Jewish law (both Oral and W...