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

was dictated by the author or that every word is a word of God directed to human for their salvation," as many of the words in the...

this account of Jesus ministry portrays it as a "coherent judgment comprising sin, chastisement and restoration" (Clifford and Ana...

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

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

In thirteen pages this paper examines Child's Biblical Theology of the Old and New Testaments: Theological Reflection on the Chris...

In five pages this paper discusses how human standards can be lived up to in a consideration of the Old Testament's unrighteousnes...

In this paper, well review some of the connections between God and the leaders of Samuel, and determine how God related to those l...

and they therefore are telling their stories from that point forth. While the Old Testament looks forward to Jesus, the New Testa...

reflecting the image of Christ? An examination of scripture reveals that these two ideas are not contradictory. Rather, the idea o...

means "face of God" (NIV). These verses record that a "man" (exact origin is unstated) wrestled with Jacob until daybreak. Jacob ...

by various members of the Hebrew-Jewish community between the 12th century B.C. and the beginning of the Christian era (Larue). Th...

of the Sower in Matthew 13:3-23. This parable talks of a farmer sowing the seed is not to be taken literally. The farmer is an ana...

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

This 8 page paper considers whether the Bible is fact or myth, and whether or not it provides an accurate account of real people a...

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

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

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

- 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...

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

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

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

as his twelve disciples, and the authors of the books of the New Testament, as well as the vast majority of the earliest Christian...

This paper offers an overview of Old Testament scripture that pertains to how the ancient Israelites regarded slavery and the fun...

phrase could mean the individual had a special relationship with God, therefore, they must learn the meaning of this in terms of J...

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

In six pages this oldest Old Testament text is analyzed in terms of the ministry of Jeremiah, the times, and how these verses rela...

This paper is made up of three short papers, the topics of which are the social role, position of the prophets, the role of Hokmah...

This paper discusses scripture from the New Testament and examines what is involved in the mission of a servant of Jesus Christ. ...

large eyes, and his eyebrows set, and his nose was somewhat long" (Miller, 1997, p. 39). While this description is intriguing, the...