YOU WERE LOOKING FOR :Toward an Old Testament Theology by Walter Kaiser
Essays 91 - 120
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...
of benefits an individual receives as the result of following Gods law in the Old Testament and by believing in and entrusting one...
Old Testament as a straightforward history. Rather, both men advocate that these texts emerged as a "self-defining narrative of a ...
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...
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...
God Abraham received was detailed in Genesis as follows: "Go forth from your native land / And from your fathers house / And I wil...
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...
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...
out by Nehemiah in two sets, initially and then, upon his return (Eastons Bible Dictionary, 1897). The Book of Nehemiah informs t...
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...
phrase could mean the individual had a special relationship with God, therefore, they must learn the meaning of this in terms of J...
King Sauls successor, as God has rejected Saul due to his disobedience.ix When Samuel comes to the house of Jesse in Bethlehem to ...
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...
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...
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...
so disfigured that three of his friends do not recognize him when they come to visit him. The three friends are Eliphaz, Bildad...
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...
the "restored kingdom of David" (Hahn 28). Matthews Gospel perfectly typifies what Augustine meant when he commented that the "N...
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 ...