Canonical

3), proving that these books have been around since Jesus’ time on Earth. He then attempts to explain the fact that they are not quoted in by Christ and the Apostles. He creates a double negative which causes anything that is not quoted to be non-canonical and he also explains that the deuterocanonical books have been alluded to, such as passages of wisdom being alluded to in Matthew. He also dispels any ideas that inspired Scripture cannot contain errors by stating that the errors were not…

Elizabeth Barrett Browning and Robert Browning both use dramatic monologues as a poetical device to capture a reader’s attention and subvert the status quo of political notions that they rail against in order to achieve their ideals of race/gender/class equality. However, their approach to utilizing dramatic monologue to achieve this goal is substantially different. The difference of tone, context, and form of the dramatic monologue are vividly showcased in the contrast of Barrett’s “The Cry of…

1st century Palestine was a special time for the Jewish faith, after the death of Jesus, and as much as they didn't like it Christianity was on the rise. However this wasn't the only thing, Judaism at this time was spawning all new sub-genres of faith. They split into four groups: The Pharisees, The Sadducees, The Zealots, and The Essenes. They all believed in YHWH, but they had different ideas and ways of how to praise him. The Pharisees, which translates to separated ones in Hebrew, are known…

These unrestricted women are seen as rebels, who are undermining an older order of gendered behavior and are demonstrating that they can take on the same tasks and think on par with their male counterparts. Similarly, in canonical fairy tales, females represented by the protagonists are portrayed as traditional and likable figures to the extent that the heroine enjoys the much coveted “femininity” that brings rewards of its own. As seen in The Sleeping Beauty, many of Jakob…

Christianity and Buddhism are two religions that are very similar, yet very unique in their own ways. These religions are two of the most popular and most practiced in the world. This is because they are not super challenging to follow and anyone can be a believer. Christianity and Buddhism are similar in that they are both orally originated, and have a moral code. These religions differ by the origin, the deity they worship, and the religion’s antagonist. Christianity was founded by humans, or…

Character- Stephen There was Jew named Stephen who lived outside of Israel and died around c. 34. Stephen accepted Christianity and when he did he became one of the seven deacons. The seven deacons are chosen by the disciples to take care of the widows and the needy people of Jerusalem as stated in Acts 6:1-5. Stephen taught in the Synagogue and one day he was accused of a serious crime called blasphemy. Later on a witness that wasn’t true testified against Stephen saying that Stephen said the…

The history of the Enlightenment is filled to the brim with a male narration, dominated by canonical male writers, whose main subjects are women. These subjects denied an equality of rationality and downgraded to a feminine domestication. In her Women and Enlightenment in Eighteenth-Century Britain, O’Brien believes that “the boundary between the domestic and social sphere was usually fluid and informal” (11). In what is a significant, thought-provoking and wonderfully-written study of…

These problems have transcended time and are reflected in both the canonical texts of hundreds of years ago just as much as they are found in contemporary news of today. Shakespeare’s, Hamlet is somewhat famous for its mad characters and respective violent ending. It is seen that either the characters suffered themselves…

Even though the Gospels of Mark and Thomas were written in different times of Christianity, Jesus is still portrayed in both. The Gospels’ various depictions of Jesus’s roles and representations emphasizes how it important to examine differences in society as history brings upon new knowledge and acceptance of Christianity and Jesus’s part in it.. As just a few hundred years elapse, one sees the differences and similarities between the roles of Jesus written in the Gospels of Mark and Thomas.…

the outer sphere is defined in opposition to the inner sphere, which is defined as the space in which a person communicates with those they know or “connect with” on a cultural level. Hill’s second argument is supported both by empirical fact, a canonical study outlined in the endnotes, as well as the other main general ethnographic explanation. Here, Hill also cites a number of concrete ethnographic cultural and historical examples to support her claim that the use of Mock Spanish elevates…