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This paper examines the power by women in ancient Hebrew and Greek societies as represented by Rebekah in the Old Testament and Na...
In six pages this paper examines these Old Testament prophet books in terms of their names' meaning and also contrasts and compare...
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...
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...
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...
and 1 Kings 11:3 indicates that the monarch of Israel had "seven hundred princesses and three hundred concubines." There is a gr...
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...
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...
King Sauls successor, as God has rejected Saul due to his disobedience.ix When Samuel comes to the house of Jesse in Bethlehem to ...
this festival secretly because He knew people were debating who He was (John 7:10). People were already plotting against Him (Keme...
the "restored kingdom of David" (Hahn 28). Matthews Gospel perfectly typifies what Augustine meant when he commented that the "N...
phrase could mean the individual had a special relationship with God, therefore, they must learn the meaning of this in terms of J...
under them split asunder; and the earth opened its mouth and swallowed them up, with their households and all the men that belonge...
Testament, these words generally refer to "service associated with the work done in the temple."6 In the New Testament, these word...
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 ...
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...
learned from Moses instruction (Hammer, 1995). When Joshua would become a ruler in his own right, he would always follow Moses ex...
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...
God Abraham received was detailed in Genesis as follows: "Go forth from your native land / And from your fathers house / And I wil...
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...
early restrictions and their application to Mosaic law, as well as an understanding of the role of Moses, are elements important i...
chapter, and discusses what God has done for the people of Israel. In this Sermon, Moses relates the actions that were taken that...
Both from biblical and theological perspectives, scholars have increasingly recognized the distortions that have crept into the Ch...
Will Salvation Take You? 2004). The Bible specifically states that it is salvation that is the key to opening the kingdom of hea...
first part of the reign of Josiah (640-609 BCE) (Exegetical helps, 2004). The words of Zephaniah reflect the faithlessness of the...
of Joshua (chs. 23-24) (Strange, 2002). A really interesting element in chapter 24 is its setting, as the entirety of its story ta...