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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...
learned from Moses instruction (Hammer, 1995). When Joshua would become a ruler in his own right, he would always follow Moses ex...
King Sauls successor, as God has rejected Saul due to his disobedience.ix When Samuel comes to the house of Jesse in Bethlehem to ...
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...
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 eleven pages this research paper refers to the Old Testament in a consideration of why Jesus is not accepted as the Messiah by ...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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 ...
In seven pages this essay examines several Old and New Testament books and includes the four gospels, and books on Ecclesiastes, D...