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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...

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

Both from biblical and theological perspectives, scholars have increasingly recognized the distortions that have crept into the Ch...

with relatively few regrets about the past. Many of the laws of society can be traced to the tenets of the Ten Commandments...

others and did not "defile" themselves by adopting the customs of the cultures to which they were exposed. It is this covenant tha...

holds the Greeks captive in his cave, into allowing them to escape by first blinding his one eye while he sleeps. However, Odysseu...

(Ruth 1:3). The sons married Moab women but about ten years later, both sons died (Ruth 1:3). Ruth was one of the widows of Naomis...

is far more to life than just that of worldly possessions -- it taught the value of life at its purist form. These same teachings...

Bible are commonly referred to as the Torah or the Pentateuch. Pleins (2001) argues that the juxtaposition of lists and codes foun...

in mind we present an examination of Gilgamesh as he illustrates the struggle for social function, or mortality, despite the inter...

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

Salvation and redemption are examined within the context of the Old and New Testaments and the possible contradictory aspects of t...

In five pages this essay discusses how these biblical texts have served as personal and community sources of inspiration. There a...

In five pages this essay explores the concepts of unity and hope in terms of their similarities as revealed in the messages contai...

In five pages these rituals and their importance as described in the Old Testament are discussed in a consideration of Leviticus' ...

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 six pages this paper examines Jerusalem's symbolic importance in a consideration of both Old and New Testaments along with Acts...

In 1178 Maimonides completed Mishneh Torah, what he had hoped would be a compete authoritative code of Jewish law (both Oral and W...

In eleven pages this research paper refers to the Old Testament in a consideration of why Jesus is not accepted as the Messiah by ...

as revealed in the literary/mythological writings of ancient Greece. In "The Iliad," for example, when the mighty warrior Achille...

In five pages this paper discusses the conflict represented by the relationships of brothers Absalom and Amnon, Jacob and Esau, an...

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

was not of Gods people. This, along with other social expectations, brought about a clear division of the people and set the stage...

Israel was under the Persian hegemony, was instrumental in shaping Judaism, as well as in the formulation of the Hebrew teachings ...

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

Testament, these words generally refer to "service associated with the work done in the temple."6 In the New Testament, these word...

A devout person will say that he or she "sees" "God in all things" (Hodges 101). This person is referring to an act of "intuitive ...

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