Canaan

The topic Biblicist Racism in the readings that were done in the class talked about various different questions that many of us have. This topic is well known by most people in the United States. Firstly, how different racial groups came to existence was explained as a myth through Curse of Ham myth. Secondly, how some racial groups are superior compare to others “as spiritually, morally, and culturally” is shown in A Great Racial Commission: Religion and the Construction of White America…

In the novel Shrink Wrapped, author David Liebert includes many aspects that would acknowledge the novel as a part of the antipsychiatry movement. This novel includes the communal theme of “what is mental illness?” Shrink Wrapped follows the main proponents of anti-psychiatry through the development of three key factors. The first key proponent of this novel advocates that mental illness gives people an excuse to reduce personal obligation and responsibly for themselves. The second main factor…

Mesopotamia, to the city of Nahor searching for a wife for Isaac. At a well just outside the city, Abraham’s servant selected a young maiden named Rebecca who was the granddaughter of Nahor; a brother to Abraham. Rebecca accompanied the servant to Canaan and married Isaac. Although, polygamy was common in those days, Isaac took only one wife whom he loved deeply. Rebecca bore to Isaac twin sins, Esau, and Jacob. The days of Isaac on the earth came to an end at the age of one hundred and…

The question regarding the stories of violence in the Old Testament is not unfamiliar; in fact, there is likely a time when every individual’s conscience is shocked by a particular story when reading the Old Testament. The seemingly different portraits of God between the Old Testament vengeance and New Testament’s Savior of the world is almost beyond human comprehension. While watching the video “Violence in the Old Testament: Seven Minute Seminary” (Stone, 2013), Dr. Stone attempted to address…

Abraham, a man considered to be the father of the Jewish people, lived around 1900 BCE in Mesopotamia and Canaan. Judaism and Christianity are both Abrahamic faiths. This is only one of many similarities between these two religions. Although Christianity and Judaism differ in some ways, one can use the foundations and origins, ideology, and sacred texts of these faiths to prove that they are more alike than different. First, where these religions came from and what they are based are only the…

love, God chose Israel to establish a special alliance with him. Before Israel itself was called into existence, God had already chosen him in the patriarchs Abraham, Isaac and Jacob, to whom he promised that his descendants would inherit the land of Canaan (6.10; 7.6-8). The fulfillment of the promise is permanently contemplated on the horizon of Deuteronomy, when it evokes, on the one hand, the events that put an end to the slavery of Israel in Egypt and, on the other, the many wonders that…

He knew where the next step would put him and he knew where the journey would end [Canaan], and that was good enough for Abraham. He walked “by faith, not by sight.” (II Cor. 5:7) He trusted God and that’s what faith is all about. There is no reason to believe that Abraham expected the journey to be an easy one, but even with hard times…

In the Book of Genesis, trickery and deception is demonstrated by characters who are never punished for their behavior, but his actions usually get him further ahead in the story. Characters use to trickery to a means to an end. In Book 22, God commands Abraham to take his son to Mount Moriah and offer him as a sacrifice. “Stay here with the ass; I and the lad will go yonder and worship, and come again to you (Genesis 22.5).” Abraham tells his servants to wait for them, and that they will…

God directed Abraham to take a group of people, including his wife, and nephew to Canaan. God promised Abraham that they were to make him a great nation, to make his name great, and to bless all families on earth through him. God fulfilled each promise regardless of the struggles they faced. A move to Egypt due to famine caused Abraham…

I believe that the Hebrew Exodus happened the way the Bible told it. There is archeological evidence and especially textual evidence. The people and archeologist who say there was no Exodus weren’t basing their claims on evidence, but the fact that they didn’t find much. Finding and digging up artifacts from that time period is a very hard task. So just because they haven’t found any doesn’t mean it’s not out there. Some people say that for the two million Hebrews to have this march from…