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Different Interpretations of Biblical Events Lord Byron's View of the Story of Cain and Abel

that neither knowledge nor life are two evils to be chosen between, but that they are both good. Why would God care to call either...

Essays on Mythology

and furthermore substantiates the domination of men over women. The clear message is that the patriarchal, punishing Jehovah shoul...

Book of Genesis and Epic of Gilgamesh

(Tablet XI). As this indicates the Babylonian myth does not associate the disaster of the floor with any sort of immorality. Lik...

She Unnames Them By Le Guin

man called each living creature, that was its name" (Genesis 2:19). Adam gave names to all of them "But, for Adam no suitable help...

Genesis 6:6 The Lord Was Grieved

in Scripture, such as in Isaiah: "yet they rebelled and grieved his Holy Spirit" (Isaiah 63:10), in Psalms: "How often they ...

Ancient Greece to the New Testament and Dreams, Oracles, and Prophecy

In eleven pages this paper discusses the concepts of interpreting the future through prophecy, by the prophets, and through dreams...

Analyzing the Tribute by Augustine to Monica, His Mother

debate in terms of wanting a peaceful and inner spiritual life and letting go of his past indiscretions (St. Augustine, Bishop of ...

Genesis 16 and 17 Exegesis

fulfill His promise but the sinfulness of humans invaded Abrams and Sarais souls. They needed a child and Sarai blamed God for le...

Analyzing the Biblical Eve

the traditional interpretation of Eve as the originator of all sin and death for the human race. However, the student may wish to ...

Darwinism v. Creationism

creationism. The intelligent-design hypothesis (ID) has also recently gained public attention because of a science textbook, Of Pa...

Exegesis of Book Six of Genesis, Lines 1 through 4

In six pages the origins of this section of the Book of Genesis is interpreted in a variety of different ways. Six sources are ci...

Debate on Evolution vs. Cration

evolution gauntlet and run with it. Nevertheless, it goes without saying that there is a plethora of others who continue to espou...

Darwin's Theory and Genesis

occurrence of profitable variations" (Darwin IV). This offers the reader an understanding of how change and alteration creates new...

God and Sin

God says, "Behold, the man is become as one of us, to know good and evil" and then "sent him forth from the garden of Eden, to til...

A Comparison of a Biblical Story with Racine's Phaedra

both works. The fact that Joseph rejects the advances of his bosss wife does not mean he is not interested in her. While she was p...

Creation As Found In Genesis 1 & 2

of the work to be don, the formation of a creature" (1871). The creature is to be Gods representative who has the authority over a...

Islam vs. Christianity, a Comparison

sixteenth century when Martin Luther, an Augustinian monk, nailed 95 complaints against the Roman Catholic Church on the church do...

Issue of Mortality in Literature and in Life

is common knowledge. Who does not worry about death? Even children, from a very young age, often ask the ultimate question which i...

Analyzing Ezekiel 28:13

In five pages the writer equates the creation mystery and man's downfall described in Genesis with this passage along with an anal...

'The Odyssey' by Homer, the Book of Genesis, Retribution and Faith

In a paper consisting of six pages this paper examines how the themes of faith anf retribution are reprsented in the 'Noah and the...

Genesis, Gilgamesh, and the Flood

In 5 pages this paper considers the significance of the Great Flood story retelling in the Epic of Gilgamesh and in the Book of Ge...

Genesis 1 Through 3

or what God tells us to do with our treasure. Sadly, humans today are not very much different than Adam and Eve in many ways. It ...

Biblical Eve in Genesis

1 Tim. 2:11-15 as indicating that Gods plan for the sexes is for male to dominate female. This New Testament passage directs women...

Analyzing A History of the World in 10 1/2 Chapters by Julian Barnes

fictional historical account, as the author uses a host of unusual situations and characters to dramatize historical interpretatio...

Christian and Islam Views on Creation

Adam and Eve, in the Garden of Eden and God as Creator. However, at this point, with the intervention of the devil, there is a cru...

Role of the Feminine in Ancient Creation Myth

males. In both "Enuma Elish" and in Hesiods mythology, the Earth goddess is described in terms of motherhood. Tiamet first rages a...

The Bible - Fact or Fiction?

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...

Genesis and Hesiod on Creation

sun and moon; animals, birds and fish; and finally, people. This took six days, and on the seventh day God rested from all this wo...

Piety, the Bible, Sophocles, and Plato

surely bless you and make your descendant as numerous as the stars in the sky." Because Abraham never questioned a divine commandm...

Analysis of the Vedic Hymn of Creation

not concerned with the creation of man but rather with the creation and evolution of the cosmos. Eliade (1995), however, notes th...