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

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...

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

or to drive away evil. Enacted daily, monthly or seasonally or to honor special events, animals are offered to the gods as a toke...

643 Life in the twenty-first century has become more of a...

poured into thy lips: therefore God hath blessed thee for ever. Gird thy sword upon thy thigh, O most Mighty, with thy glory and t...

John was familiar with Jewish ideas regarding the Messiah. He incorporated those ideas into his Gospel. He gently brings about the...

wife was sexually involved with other men after they married (Smith, 2001). God demonstrates to Hosea the love He has for His peo...

be very difficult because it had armor-like scales that were so close they did not even let in air. The mystery may be solved. A f...

and 1 Kings 11:3 indicates that the monarch of Israel had "seven hundred princesses and three hundred concubines." There is a gr...

learned from Moses instruction (Hammer, 1995). When Joshua would become a ruler in his own right, he would always follow Moses ex...

and the misery of the battlefield. It came as a particular shock because the years just preceding it were a "golden age." From al...

meeting with the other man, calling in elders and others to witness the exchange. The other man renounces his claim and takes off ...

conflict with them but he avoided that. He could foresee that getting into a serious argument with his enemies would lead to unnec...

following Gods first message to move but he did not wait to see if God would tell him the best path to take. There are certain par...

prophets was to convey a message from God to the People. They received the divine messages differently, some in a dream, some in a...

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

this festival secretly because He knew people were debating who He was (John 7:10). People were already plotting against Him (Keme...

(Hellwig, 2007). Like many Catholics, this woman followed everything the Church taught, followed all the rules, adhered to all the...

to bring a great flood that would cover the earth but Noah was a righteous man and God decided to save humanity through Noah and H...

out by Nehemiah in two sets, initially and then, upon his return (Eastons Bible Dictionary, 1897). The Book of Nehemiah informs t...

also referred as "the law," due to the fact that they contain "the laws and instruction" that were handed down by God to Moses and...

no historical value to the Book of Esther and that it is a "work of the imagination, written for the purpose of popularizing the f...

a religious leader to one ruled by a king, that is, a political leader. Sauls downfall as a ruler is considered to be tragic in th...

has its own very distinctive following; while it may be partially entrenched within cultural reasons, the primary one is the level...

compensated for their time. This economic structure teaches children that nothing comes without fair exchange, and validates that...

that she does not want to see him to go his death "not owning up to the part" that he played in death of his victim (Prejean 179)....

women differently than the culture dictated? Did He treat them differently than He treated other people? Did Jesus behaviors place...