YOU WERE LOOKING FOR :Understanding the Old Testament by Bernhard Anderson
Essays 91 - 120
repair the ravages of human sinfulness" (OBrien, 1999, p. 16). However, the allure of worldliness proved too much for the Israeli...
meeting with the other man, calling in elders and others to witness the exchange. The other man renounces his claim and takes off ...
codified into groups of laws, established the basis of laws established in future cultures. While punishments were severe, they re...
of benefits an individual receives as the result of following Gods law in the Old Testament and by believing in and entrusting one...
Old Testament as a straightforward history. Rather, both men advocate that these texts emerged as a "self-defining narrative of a ...
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...
phrases use in the Gospels is that is used exclusively by Christ and is never employed by his disciples or others, nor by early Ch...
Will Salvation Take You? 2004). The Bible specifically states that it is salvation that is the key to opening the kingdom of hea...
first part of the reign of Josiah (640-609 BCE) (Exegetical helps, 2004). The words of Zephaniah reflect the faithlessness of the...
of Joshua (chs. 23-24) (Strange, 2002). A really interesting element in chapter 24 is its setting, as the entirety of its story ta...
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...
Testament Law and the Ten Commandments express this relationship (Out of Egypt, 2003). One of the first examples of Gods...
special messages to the people. Jonah, who refused to take the message the Lord gave him into Nineveh, suffered the consequences o...
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...
early restrictions and their application to Mosaic law, as well as an understanding of the role of Moses, are elements important i...
chapter, and discusses what God has done for the people of Israel. In this Sermon, Moses relates the actions that were taken that...