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Essays 61 - 90
of envisioning and grasping the full significance of difficult passages. In his preface, Anderson outlines his general approach....
In fifteen pages Old Testament theology is considered in various sections that include models, debates, and a discussion of theori...
In six pages idolatry definition changes are examined in a consideration of past to present with contemporary rock star ideology c...
In five pages this paper examines prophets including Daniel Jonah, Ezekiel, Jeremiah, and Isaiah as they are featured in the Old T...
In five pages this essay discusses how these biblical texts have served as personal and community sources of inspiration. There a...
in mind we present an examination of Gilgamesh as he illustrates the struggle for social function, or mortality, despite the inter...
In five pages this paper discusses the conflict represented by the relationships of brothers Absalom and Amnon, Jacob and Esau, an...
In 1178 Maimonides completed Mishneh Torah, what he had hoped would be a compete authoritative code of Jewish law (both Oral and W...
repair the ravages of human sinfulness" (OBrien, 1999, p. 16). However, the allure of worldliness proved too much for the Israeli...
holds the Greeks captive in his cave, into allowing them to escape by first blinding his one eye while he sleeps. However, Odysseu...
(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...
with relatively few regrets about the past. Many of the laws of society can be traced to the tenets of the Ten Commandments...
Testament Law and the Ten Commandments express this relationship (Out of Egypt, 2003). One of the first examples of Gods...
of benefits an individual receives as the result of following Gods law in the Old Testament and by believing in and entrusting one...
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...
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...
others and did not "defile" themselves by adopting the customs of the cultures to which they were exposed. It is this covenant tha...
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...
influences on the society in which they lived. Daniel was challenged throughout his life by a number of circumstances, one of whi...
was not of Gods people. This, along with other social expectations, brought about a clear division of the people and set the stage...
Israel was under the Persian hegemony, was instrumental in shaping Judaism, as well as in the formulation of the Hebrew teachings ...
this festival secretly because He knew people were debating who He was (John 7:10). People were already plotting against Him (Keme...
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...
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 ...
so disfigured that three of his friends do not recognize him when they come to visit him. The three friends are Eliphaz, Bildad...
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...