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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...

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...

and 1 Kings 11:3 indicates that the monarch of Israel had "seven hundred princesses and three hundred concubines." There is a gr...

codified into groups of laws, established the basis of laws established in future cultures. While punishments were severe, they re...

Both from biblical and theological perspectives, scholars have increasingly recognized the distortions that have crept into the Ch...

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

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

the "restored kingdom of David" (Hahn 28). Matthews Gospel perfectly typifies what Augustine meant when he commented that the "N...

phrase could mean the individual had a special relationship with God, therefore, they must learn the meaning of this in terms of J...

King Sauls successor, as God has rejected Saul due to his disobedience.ix When Samuel comes to the house of Jesse in Bethlehem to ...

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 ...

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 eleven pages this research paper refers to the Old Testament in a consideration of why Jesus is not accepted as the Messiah by ...

This paper offers an overview of Old Testament scripture that pertains to how the ancient Israelites regarded slavery and the fun...

wife was sexually involved with other men after they married (Smith, 2001). God demonstrates to Hosea the love He has for His peo...

John was familiar with Jewish ideas regarding the Messiah. He incorporated those ideas into his Gospel. He gently brings about the...

as his twelve disciples, and the authors of the books of the New Testament, as well as the vast majority of the earliest Christian...

be very difficult because it had armor-like scales that were so close they did not even let in air. The mystery may be solved. A f...

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...

An overview of the arguments the author makes in Toward and Old Testament Theology is assessed in terms of its strengths and weakn...

A number of consistent themes run through the Bible. This paper focuses on three of them, giving examples from the Old and New Tes...

war is used in both Old and New Testament texts, there is definitively a difference in the way in which this language is used and ...