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Essays 61 - 90
Yahweh's personality and heterogeneous presentation as depicted in Hebrew scriptures are described in eight pages. Ten sources ar...
BC) of the Jews that they set about truly "purifying their religion" (Hooker, 1996). It was during this period that they worked to...
the end of the Gita, Arjuna says "The delusion is gone...by your grace I have recovered my wits. Here I stand with no more doubts....
Testament, these words generally refer to "service associated with the work done in the temple."6 In the New Testament, these word...
verse tells us clearly that without faith, we have no real belief in God and Gods powers. Curtis avers that faith is "what Christ...
and they therefore are telling their stories from that point forth. While the Old Testament looks forward to Jesus, the New Testa...
Genesis and Exodus compiled these texts during the Persian Period of Israelite history (or later0 and, therefore, "had virtually n...
that are more passive and believe that "God will punish" or "evil will be punished" much less threatening than those that say "God...
raise his staff and stretch out his arms and the Sea parted, allowing all the Israelites to get to the other side at which time th...
prophets was to convey a message from God to the People. They received the divine messages differently, some in a dream, some in a...
author points out, it would be impossible to spend as much time on each and every event and person mentioned in the Old Testament....
males. In both "Enuma Elish" and in Hesiods mythology, the Earth goddess is described in terms of motherhood. Tiamet first rages a...
men" (Jeffrey, 1990). Each taught a new truth as commanded by God, each performed miracles, both spent their childhoods in Egypt, ...
This essay pertains to theologian David L. Allen's interpretation of the Greek work "metochos" in the Hebrews. Three pages in leng...
In a paper of ten pages, the writer looks at Hebrew poetry. Short essay answers and definitions to common poetic terms are given. ...
In a paper of four pages, the writer looks at Hebrew and Egyptian mythologies. A discussion highlights similarities between the tw...
The major challenge in constructing histories of Israel and Judah is the fact that they were individuals but they also had cities ...
The Iberian Peninsula, that region of the world we now call Spain and Portugal, fell under Islamic rule in 711 AD. While Islamic ...
the Virgin Mary are frequently called upon in the characters speech to protect them and deliver their society from the hatred that...
prayers. This is very different in Islam. As most of us should know by now, Muslims pray five times each day, each time facing Me...
increasingly marginalized from public and private spheres. Once upon a time, prayer was permitted in public schools, and no one t...
of God were those of the Old Testament, then came Jesus, whom they consider to be another divine prophet, and then Mohammad, the l...
tomatoes and carrots: eating the tomato does not adversely affect the tomato plant; eating a carrot kills the plant. Buddhism ...
the rulers. The differences between the Sunni and Shiite branches of Islam developed over a number of centuries, for many y...
revelations of Judaism and then Christianity, but draws the story onward to yet another climax" (Neusner, 2006). Neusner says that...
throughout most of Western history, Christianity has practiced active and persistent racism against Jews, as European pogroms agai...
Buddha perceived many faults with the status quo approach to religion. He consequently proposed radical alternatives advocating i...
study the Vedas. This particular Hindu book says that women "are entirely worthless creatures" (Dharma Universe, 2010). Even so,...
womans role in relation to her society in somewhat different ways. The differences between the Shia and Sunni sects are particula...
happen to good people?" is basically addressing the problem of evil, and why an omnipotent divine being would allow evil to exist...