Ark of the Covenant

The city of Jerusalem is a religious and holy space to many who live there or simply visit, but what about Jerusalem makes religious or holy in the first place? There are buildings with an empty meaning until it is labeled, buildings with an unacknowledged history that can or cannot be proven, and people confused with their purpose in life. Jerusalem has carried many of these characterizations and factors and yet no one truly understood how the religious and holy space was formed in the city.…

The history of those who practice Judaism is one that pre-dates Christianity. The history of Judaism is traced as far back as Abraham. The Hebrew Bible tells us that, Yahweh and Abraham had made covenant. In the covenant Yahweh promises Abraham land known as Canaan, the promise land, and an abundance of descendants. The descendants later become to be known as the children of Israel after Jacob, Abraham’s grandson that Yahweh renames as Israel. The people of Israel reside in Canaan until famine…

Following the Exodus from Egypt the Israelites wandered the Sinai wilderness for forty years. Not sure of their future they began worshipping the Canaanite Pantheon instead of God and only upon threats from Moses did they stop their worshipping the pagan deities. Substantial amount of evidence from various archaeological excavations throughout the Levant confirm that the Israelites and the Canaanites believed in the same Father-God named El. The Kingdom of Israel, ruled by Jeroboam I, began a…

The lack of common sense is not just in government. There is a lot of it in religion too. When we take every verse of the Bible literally without thinking about the assumptions and context behind that verse, we are not using common sense; we are being childish Christians. When we follow a religious tradition for the sake of the tradition without thinking about how it applies to our current life situation, we are not using our God-given common sense; we are being blind followers. Then we wonder…

and his family so that they can one day populate the earth again. God tells Noah that he “will establish a covenant” (Gen. 6.18) and then proceeds to guide him with instructions. “Make yourself an ark of gopher wood;” (Gen. 6.14). “Come into the ark, you, your sons, your wife, and your sons’ wives with you. And of every living thing of all flesh, you shall bring two of every sort into the ark,” (Gen. 8.18-19). In contrast, in Gilgamesh , it consisted of two heros: Ea and Utnapishtim. Ea and…

history. The Deluge and the renewal of the covenant between Yahweh and Israel during Old Testament era, show how to keep the relationships and the unbreakable connections between God, People and Land. As being Christians, we all have heard and learned about the Great Deluge that happened in the early Old Testaments era. The flood was a massive slaughter caused by Yahweh’s indignation. The…

International Version). John 3:16 provides love as the reason God did this. This paper seeks to unfold and apply God’s plan of salvation through his son, Jesus, by discussing the meaning of the Old and New Testament covenants found in the Holy Bible. Abraham’s Old Testament Covenant Lord God initiated his salvation plan through Abraham, his faithful…

obeying the commands of the Gods as far as building the sip or ark. The reason for both floods was the behavior of the people, their sins, and wickedness. The flood in the epic of Gilgamesh was to destroy all of humankind because the Gods were annoyed. Utnapishtim and Noah both released birds to find land after the storm was over. The biblical version a dove came back with an olive leaf letting Noah know there was land. The ark landed on Mt. Ararat located in today’s Turkey and the ship in…

asked Noah, whom he considered a good man, to build a great ark. By building the ark, he would then be able to save 2 of every beast, bird, as well as his family and their spouses. In the Bible God said, “I am about to bring the waters of the flood over the earth to destroy from under heaven every human being that has the spirit of life; everything on earth shall perish. But with you I shall make my covenant, and you will go into the ark, you with your sons, your wife, and your sons’ wives. You…

Prior to taking Professor Klein’s very compelling twentieth century U.S history class, the most memorable moment I’ve had would have to be learning about the Holocaust (HaShoah, in Hebrew) and Adolf Hitler. Adolf Hitler was the pioneer of Nazi Germany from 1934 to 1945. He started rightist arrangements that prompted to World War II and the passings of no less than 11 million individuals, including the mass murder of an expected 6 million Jews. He endorsed the development of slaughtering squads…