Essays 211 - 240
the Bible and reading Josephs story in the Quran is rather like the difference between actually reading a novel and simply reading...
In five pages the arguement is presented that the future depicted in Offred's narrative is a combination reenactment of the Bible ...
It appears that in many respects the general story concerning Mary in the Bible and the Quran is essentially the same. Pelikan (19...
of Christianity. Beyond that, however, the story quickly falls apart. The "theological crossroads" (Breaking The Da Vinci Code) ...
if "the Son of God does not sink, neither shall we" (Darby, 2009). Matthew Henry finds allegorical meaning in the passage, as he...
King of the Jews. Mark places more emphasis on what Jesus did than what He said. He saw Jesus as a powerful servant of God. Luke s...
the "Documentary Hypothesis," a theory that asserts that "the Pentateuch was written by a group of four authors, from various loca...
other situation, I believe God wants people to live and by living, learn how to handle the problems that cause psychic pain. Sea...
of editorial activity (Brueggemann 7). However, scholars have yet to reach consensus over the extent to which each layer of litera...
and worship. The function of food for enjoyment is seen at Ecclesiastes 2:24 where it states " Nothing is better for a man than th...
Christian but it was a Western culture. East Asians are from a complex culture, one that is based in Confucianism and then, Christ...
in a box or in the homeless shelter, and begged for loose change. Starving, with no hope, he reasoned that the lowest paid worker ...
flogged rather than killed (Acts 5:27-42). It is through the writings of early historians like Eusebius of Cesarea and Origen that...
"Each individual book only becomes biblical in the light of the canon as a whole" (Pontifical Biblical Commission, 1994, Canonical...
prophets was to convey a message from God to the People. They received the divine messages differently, some in a dream, some in a...
meeting with the other man, calling in elders and others to witness the exchange. The other man renounces his claim and takes off ...
each chapter to help the reader discover what they have learned. There is a harmony to the book in that it begins with a discuss...
This essay pertains to Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley's nineteenth century gothic novel Frankenstein and the allusions that Shelley m...
The Book of Jeremiah is the longest book in the Bible containing more words than any other book. The greatest majority of the Book...
This essay pertains to The short stories "Bible" by Tobias Wolfe and "Virgins" by Danielle Evans. The writer discusses the theme o...
This paper traces the importance of religion in the fight against slavery. Ironically, although the African Methodist Episcopal C...
This 6 page paper gives an explanation of Documentary Hypothesis and how it's not necessarily true. This paper includes quotes fro...
This research paper/essay pertains to John 19:16-30 and offers a comprehensive overview and analysis of this passage. Bible commen...
is a biblical scholar and the other is a Christian ethicist, and they bring together their individual competencies to offer a comp...
of the Christian message should be open to cultural differences, as Paul made it clear that accepting Christ generates life-changi...
If they live long enough to experience loss, grief is something that all human beings...
In face of the overwhelming number of verses in the Holy Bible that tell Christians they are not supposed to use force, how do we ...
This four-page paper compares and contrasts women in the Book of Genesis in the Bible and the Qu'ran. Common topics regarding wome...
God uses to point to Himself as the power (Samons, 2012). Examples of miracles in the Old Testament include God parting the Red S...
is only found there and not in any of the other Gospels. It is known that Mark was written in about 70 A.D. and it is believed tha...