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Origins of the Pentateuch or Torah

sometimes referred to as the "Five Books of Moses" (Bandstra 24). However, common sense informs the reader that Moses could not ha...

Book of Genesis and Joseph's Story

processes associated with establishing the structures and constraints of Jewish society, especially in terms of how many members o...

Reviewing The Book of the Torah: The Narrative Integrity of the Pentateuch by Thomas Mann

are already well acquainted with the Torah, his book provides an excellent introduction for those that are only somewhat familiar ...

Pentateuch or the Torah and Moses

Wrote the Pentateuch - The Five Books of Moses, 2003). This would have provided Moses approximately 40 years to complete these wr...

Pentateuch from 2 Perspectives

predecessors in the eighteenth century, beginning with Wilhelm Martin Leberecht de Wette. Furthermore, Blenkinsopps discussion of ...

Anti Semitism and Origins of Totalitarianism by Hannah Arendt

from a class structure to a more business structure. But the costs of doing so, she notes, were far beyond what a government could...

Aristotle and Human Origins

was also Aristotle who determined that in a beehive there was a particular leader, though he called it a "king" (Aristotle, 2006)....

Three Differing Views of the Origin of Religion

Tylor asserts that in order to assess a culture, one must approach it from an objective standpoint: if one does not do so, ones ow...

The Origins of the Blues

In many ways, the blues have a very "rich sense of origin" for a variety of reasons (Encyclopedia of Chicago, 2007). \...

Annotated Bibliography: Origins of Greek Mathematics

is very advanced and demonstrates once again a close connection, in the ancient Greeks works, between mathematics and philosophy. ...

Semitic Origins of the Hyksos

the Hyksos rulers (Redmount 68). Manethos text as interpreted by Josephus describes the Hyksos rulers as "sacrilegious inv...

Totalitarianism and How It Originated

the human omnipotence and the genuinely powerless. The books grim analysis of totalitarianisms origin leads the author to ass...

Pentateuch as Interpreted by T.E. Fretheim

can be seen as counter-productive: it is necessary to look both at the validity which the compilers accorded to their sources and ...

Moses Wrote the Pentateuch or Did He?

the "Documentary Hypothesis," a theory that asserts that "the Pentateuch was written by a group of four authors, from various loca...

Moses Wrote the Pentateuch

This 6 page paper gives an explanation of Documentary Hypothesis and how it's not necessarily true. This paper includes quotes fro...

Neusner's Introduction to Judaism

job it is to perform certain sacred rituals, whereas in Judaism, the rabbi has no authority to perform rituals. Instead, Rabbis ar...

Life and Times of Moses

sense of morality despite Moses obvious exposure to the belief system of the Egyptian gods and goddesses. In brief summary to hi...

Torah Defined

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

Israelites and Codified Law

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

Ancient Legal Codes

woman, then she was free to take back her dowry and return to her fathers house (Brians, 1998). While this sounds quite humanistic...

Introduction to the Jewish Faith

to be confused between the Jewish Torah and Talmud. The Torah is comprised of the first five Books of the Bible. These were writte...

3 Jewish Websites and the Differences That Exist Between ThemFERENCES

against all, and the ADL is working to stamp this hatred out. The Alliance for Jewish Renewal, also known as ALEPH (which...

Mosaic Tradition and Divine Command and the Mosaic Tradition: Maimonides, Al-Ghazali and Augustine

the divine commands and the application of Mosaic tradition require a comparative view of these authors, their underlying purpose,...

A Visit to a Jewish Temple

This 6 page paper consists of the writer's observations of Saturday services at a Jewish synagogue. The writer discusses such thin...

'Righteous' Biblical Noah

In four pages this essay quotes the Holy Bible and the Torah in an assessment of Noah as righteous. Six sources are cited in the ...

Koran, Torah, and Prayer

The Islamic religion, overall, is based on submission to the will of God, or Allah (Islam, 2002). The so-called "founding father" ...

Evolution Theory of Charles Darwin

admittedly the fossil record was far from complete, nor was our understanding of it incontestable, we began to consider a process ...

Louis Pasteur and 'The Germs Of Dissent and The Origins Of Life'

own ideals of the impossibility of such an occurrence. The concept behind spontaneous generation is that "life can form from dead...

Christmas as a Midwinter Festival and Santa Claus' Origins

In ten pages this paper examines the midwinter festival origins of Christmas and also traces Santa Claus' origins and growing comm...

HIV/AIDS and the Myths of its Origin

5 pages and 8 sources. This paper provides an overview of existing arguments about the nature and origins of HIV/AIDS, including ...