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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...

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

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...

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

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

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...

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

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

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

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

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

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

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 these Old Testament prophet books in terms of their names' meaning and also contrasts and compare...

In five pages this paper examines prophets including Daniel Jonah, Ezekiel, Jeremiah, and Isaiah as they are featured in the Old T...

In fifteen pages the letter St. Paul wrote to the Romans is considered within the context of whether today's society is sinful, if...

the people of Israel and the Almighty. The continuation of this covenant reaches from the past through to the new covenant represe...

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

In five pages this paper examines the Holy Bible's Old and New Testaments, 'The Odyssey' of Homer, and William Shakespeare's Hamle...

In five pages this paper examines the definition of identity in the works of Euripides, Sophocles, Sappho's poetry, the Oresteia, ...

In six pages the Old and New Testaments are considered in a discussion of similarities and differences that might emerge from a Je...

in and curse God. He tells his wife, advising her that, just as they accept good from the hand of God, they have to also be willin...

In 6 pages the Old Testament is compared and contrasted with the myths of the ancient Mayan civilization in a consideration of the...

The temptress or protector roles of women in the Bible's Old Testament are discussed in a paper consisting of 5 pages. There are ...

In five and a half pages this paper examines the Old Testament in a consideration of the covenant's definition and what it means. ...