YOU WERE LOOKING FOR :Prophets in the Old Testament
Essays 91 - 120
In six pages this paper examines Jerusalem's symbolic importance in a consideration of both Old and New Testaments along with Acts...
learned from Moses instruction (Hammer, 1995). When Joshua would become a ruler in his own right, he would always follow Moses ex...
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...
no historical value to the Book of Esther and that it is a "work of the imagination, written for the purpose of popularizing the f...
also referred as "the law," due to the fact that they contain "the laws and instruction" that were handed down by God to Moses and...
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...
and 1 Kings 11:3 indicates that the monarch of Israel had "seven hundred princesses and three hundred concubines." There is a gr...
as his twelve disciples, and the authors of the books of the New Testament, as well as the vast majority of the earliest Christian...
meeting with the other man, calling in elders and others to witness the exchange. The other man renounces his claim and takes off ...
poured into thy lips: therefore God hath blessed thee for ever. Gird thy sword upon thy thigh, O most Mighty, with thy glory and t...
conflict with them but he avoided that. He could foresee that getting into a serious argument with his enemies would lead to unnec...
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...
John was familiar with Jewish ideas regarding the Messiah. He incorporated those ideas into his Gospel. He gently brings about the...
This paper offers an overview of Old Testament scripture that pertains to how the ancient Israelites regarded slavery and the fun...
of benefits an individual receives as the result of following Gods law in the Old Testament and by believing in and entrusting one...
codified into groups of laws, established the basis of laws established in future cultures. While punishments were severe, they re...
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...
repair the ravages of human sinfulness" (OBrien, 1999, p. 16). However, the allure of worldliness proved too much for the Israeli...
Testament Law and the Ten Commandments express this relationship (Out of Egypt, 2003). One of the first examples of Gods...
holds the Greeks captive in his cave, into allowing them to escape by first blinding his one eye while he sleeps. However, Odysseu...
Both from biblical and theological perspectives, scholars have increasingly recognized the distortions that have crept into the Ch...
early restrictions and their application to Mosaic law, as well as an understanding of the role of Moses, are elements important i...
chapter, and discusses what God has done for the people of Israel. In this Sermon, Moses relates the actions that were taken that...
God Abraham received was detailed in Genesis as follows: "Go forth from your native land / And from your fathers house / And I wil...
Will Salvation Take You? 2004). The Bible specifically states that it is salvation that is the key to opening the kingdom of hea...
so disfigured that three of his friends do not recognize him when they come to visit him. The three friends are Eliphaz, Bildad...
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...
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...