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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...

learned from Moses instruction (Hammer, 1995). When Joshua would become a ruler in his own right, he would always follow Moses ex...

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...

wife was sexually involved with other men after they married (Smith, 2001). God demonstrates to Hosea the love He has for His peo...

John was familiar with Jewish ideas regarding the Messiah. He incorporated those ideas into his Gospel. He gently brings about the...

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

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...

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...

of Joshua (chs. 23-24) (Strange, 2002). A really interesting element in chapter 24 is its setting, as the entirety of its story ta...

first part of the reign of Josiah (640-609 BCE) (Exegetical helps, 2004). The words of Zephaniah reflect the faithlessness of the...

special messages to the people. Jonah, who refused to take the message the Lord gave him into Nineveh, suffered the consequences o...

Testament Law and the Ten Commandments express this relationship (Out of Egypt, 2003). One of the first examples of Gods...

early restrictions and their application to Mosaic law, as well as an understanding of the role of Moses, are elements important i...

God Abraham received was detailed in Genesis as follows: "Go forth from your native land / And from your fathers house / And I wil...

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

under them split asunder; and the earth opened its mouth and swallowed them up, with their households and all the men that belonge...

this festival secretly because He knew people were debating who He was (John 7:10). People were already plotting against Him (Keme...

so disfigured that three of his friends do not recognize him when they come to visit him. The three friends are Eliphaz, Bildad...

King Sauls successor, as God has rejected Saul due to his disobedience.ix When Samuel comes to the house of Jesse in Bethlehem to ...

the "restored kingdom of David" (Hahn 28). Matthews Gospel perfectly typifies what Augustine meant when he commented that the "N...

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...

out by Nehemiah in two sets, initially and then, upon his return (Eastons Bible Dictionary, 1897). The Book of Nehemiah informs t...

to bring a great flood that would cover the earth but Noah was a righteous man and God decided to save humanity through Noah and H...

In fifteen pages the letter St. Paul wrote to the Romans is considered within the context of whether today's society is sinful, if...

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

In five pages this paper examines prophets including Daniel Jonah, Ezekiel, Jeremiah, and Isaiah as they are featured in the Old T...