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Essays 61 - 90
In five pages this paper examines the different Jewish sects that fragmented before the birth of Jesus such as the Essenes, the Sa...
In five pages this paper discusses Jesus' belief that the law of Moses was being distorted and how this view was represented in bo...
the Twelve who was not from Galilee; he was from Kerioth in southern Judaea. Jews from this part of the country believed they were...
The writer reviews the Laurie Beth Jones book Jesus, CEO, which gives business advice based on the leadership techniques demonstra...
by John the Baptist, who claimed that he should rather be baptized by Jesus (Mt 3:13). Immediately after, the dove from heaven de...
In five pages Potter's controversial Son of Man TV movie based upon Jesus's life is examined in terms of the writer's objectives a...
In six pages this examination of Jesus' life includes his childhood and last 3 years before his crucifixion. Six sources are cite...
Gospel of Matthew it is noted that "When the morning was come, all the chief priests and elders of the people took counsel against...
Greco-Roman thought and tradition. Nevertheless, traditionally, Christian scholars have been extremely reluctant to give credit fo...
as actively participating in his fate, rather than demonstrating passive acceptance. In the synoptic gospels, action is, for the m...
from a degree of torment, the sources of our greatest joys lying awkwardly close to those of our greatest pain" (De Botton 215). ...
However, the historical record indicates that it was not long before the image of Jesus began to be detached from the historical J...
perhaps even more interesting, is that he managed to connect to everyone. His stories and parables could be understood on the mos...
ordinary Jewish resident who grew up in Nazareth in Galilee (Attridge, 1998). He lived and died as a Jew and He had to have been i...
is far more to life than just that of worldly possessions -- it taught the value of life at its purist form. These same teachings...
If we show that Jesus Christ is the Second Person in the Holy Trinity, we also demonstrate that Jesus is the Son of God, which is ...
son, to God is record in Genesis 22. God instructed Abraham to take "your son, your only son, whom you love-Isaac-and go to the re...
John was familiar with Jewish ideas regarding the Messiah. He incorporated those ideas into his Gospel. He gently brings about the...
historical Jesus is based on two recognitions. The first is that the Jewish Jesus from Galilee is different than the Jesus who has...
2004, p. 291). Another characteristic that was demonstrated by Jesus was his humility. John, chapter 13, describes how Jesus, pr...
at the rights and role of women in Palestine during the time of Jesus, and interpret his reported words within that context. The...
are disciplined and they are able to see the Gestalt, the big picture.2 They know what they want to accomplish and even know how l...
a mentoring leader, He gave them more and more responsibility so they would be able to carry on after He left.4 For instance, in L...
of God were those of the Old Testament, then came Jesus, whom they consider to be another divine prophet, and then Mohammad, the l...
contemporary mindset, the word "law" refers to civil law, which is enforced by the police and government officials. As Jesus indic...
to be the so-called "Corinthian Gate," and that this was the place where "the crippled man had been placed so that he could beg f...
move allowed him to lead a life of leisure rather than one of hard work and he spent a great deal of time "in religious contemplat...
men" (Jeffrey, 1990). Each taught a new truth as commanded by God, each performed miracles, both spent their childhoods in Egypt, ...
women or does it primarily reflect a later change in attitude, which originates with the early Christian communitys perspective." ...
Father, as being from above, and other such phrases (Kasper, 1978, p. 173). Jesus was in all ways like us with one great exceptio...