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While this fact does not indicate that the author of Genesis intentionally used the word "yom" to indicate the passage of billions...

ritual in pagan religions for the purpose of purifying oneself (Barnes 2000). Although the term baptism is not found in the Old ...

the hero receives the call to adventure, which he initially rejects before crossing the threshold into adventure. Next comes initi...

author points out, it would be impossible to spend as much time on each and every event and person mentioned in the Old Testament....

- the Alpha and the Omega, the beginning and the end; there is no other Lord but Him, He is God over heaven and over earth and onl...

duties. Leviticus 19:32-33 details the societal obligation to respect the elderly, and also instructs that strangers should not be...

unique personalities and writing styles (Thiessen, 1979). Theissen explains that the Holy Spirit supervised these writers to insur...

and reflection question : In the Sermon on the Mount, Jesus pictures a religious and moral orientation that draws on Jewish tradit...

In seven pages this essay examines Christianity in terms of the role played by Satan in both the Old Testament and the New Testame...

deity, was the "first principle, the very foundation of the divinely willed order of things" (McCarthy 136). However, it is not e...

In ten pages the Jewish roots of the Christian faith are exposed in a discussion of major contention points that existed, similari...

(p. 81). In other words, this group of scholars believes that Christianity adopted its missionary orientation, in part, because ...

Law of Christ. The Israelites believed that the Spirit of God lived in the Tabernacle, which is why it was guarded so carefully. I...

the people of Israel and the Almighty. The continuation of this covenant reaches from the past through to the new covenant represe...

In six pages The Book of Job from the Old Testament, Antigone by Sophocles, Crito and Apology by Plato, and The Clouds by Aristoph...

Old Testament as a straightforward history. Rather, both men advocate that these texts emerged as a "self-defining narrative of a ...

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

In six pages this essay discusses gods laws, obedience, rewards and punishments as they pertain to 2 Books of Kings in the Old Tes...

In five pages this paper examines the first chapter of the Book of Job that is featured in the Old Testament. There are no other ...

that all that happens is not simply between God and man. There is another party - Satan. The Book of Job presents a war between Go...

chapter, and discusses what God has done for the people of Israel. In this Sermon, Moses relates the actions that were taken that...

conflict with them but he avoided that. He could foresee that getting into a serious argument with his enemies would lead to unnec...

are clearly in the minority. There seems to be less women taking judgeships in the high courts, even though there are increasing...

In five pages this Old Testament priest is examined in a consideration of his life and achievements. Six sources are cited in the...

In seventeen pages this paper argues that contemporary Christian theology can best be understood through a consideration of the Ol...

time on earth (Core, 2000). The early Christians debated at great length regarding the books that would be accepted as Old Testame...

and find a life that surely offered more wealth and more stability. In light of such realities we must argue that Ruth was more th...

It is not clear whether the prophets all received their messages from God through dreams, visions or in other ways. Some prophe...

at the wrong time"), it would be counterproductive both to my brother and to the community to remove him completely from any oppor...

through weak judges" (Malick, 2009). Clearly, in light of this, they were only men, for the most part, and they attempted to creat...