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Three of the Prophets

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

Attitudes towards Slavery in the Old Testament

This paper offers an overview of Old Testament scripture that pertains to how the ancient Israelites regarded slavery and the fun...

Old Testament Survey

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...

Book of Job and its Message

so disfigured that three of his friends do not recognize him when they come to visit him. The three friends are Eliphaz, Bildad...

Koran, Bible on Women

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

Story of the Religious Leader Joshua

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

Jesus as King in Matthew

the "restored kingdom of David" (Hahn 28). Matthews Gospel perfectly typifies what Augustine meant when he commented that the "N...

Old Testament and Salvation

of benefits an individual receives as the result of following Gods law in the Old Testament and by believing in and entrusting one...

Literal Interpretation of the Old Testament

were captive in Babylon and, therefore, exposed to this culture. The traditional Jewish and Christian viewpoint has been that M...

Kings and Kingship in the Old Testament

repair the ravages of human sinfulness" (OBrien, 1999, p. 16). However, the allure of worldliness proved too much for the Israeli...

Homer and the Old Testament

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

Torah Defined

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

Old Testament and Deliverance of People by God

Testament Law and the Ten Commandments express this relationship (Out of Egypt, 2003). One of the first examples of Gods...

Deacon's Role as Prophet

special messages to the people. Jonah, who refused to take the message the Lord gave him into Nineveh, suffered the consequences o...

Phrase 'Son of Man' and its Value

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...

John 7:37-39 - Rivers Of Flowing Water

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

Jesus & Worship, Romans 12, Etc.

Testament, these words generally refer to "service associated with the work done in the temple."6 In the New Testament, these word...

Knowledge of God

A devout person will say that he or she "sees" "God in all things" (Hodges 101). This person is referring to an act of "intuitive ...

The Influence of Ancient Literature on Dante's Writing

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

Prophets in the Old Testament

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

Sanguine, Choleric, Melancholy, and Plegmatic

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...

Christianity's Relationship to Judaism

as his twelve disciples, and the authors of the books of the New Testament, as well as the vast majority of the earliest Christian...

Old Testament Devotionals and Contemporary Interpretations

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...

Women's Oppression in the Old Testament and Homer's 'The Odyssey'

In six pages this paper contrasts and compares how women were oppressed by law and society in the Old Testament and in Homer's epi...

Covenant and Its Theological Importance

In eight pages this paper examines the Old and New Testaments in terms of the importance of covenants. Six sources are cited in t...

Ancient Prisons

In seven pages this research paper explores ancient 'prisons' in a consideration of Old and New Testament lands of Rome, Greece, E...

The Issue of Animal Sacrifice and Old Testament References

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

The Existence of Angels

to Taylor, there are three angels most familiar to people: Michael, Gabriel, and Raphael. The Archangel Michael, whose name means ...

Mastering the Literary Art

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

Prevailing Biblical Themes

A number of consistent themes run through the Bible. This paper focuses on three of them, giving examples from the Old and New Tes...