Ephesus

John 6:1-14 serves as a “reminiscent of the miraculous feeding through Moses” during the wandering in the wilderness “following their exodus from Egypt and preceding their entrance into the promised land” (Exodus 16:4-36), events commemorated by the Passover feast (Heil, 53). In John 6:1-14, Jesus feeds a crowd of about five thousand (6:10) with the overabundance of bread and fish (6:5-13) when the Passover, the feast of the Jews, was near (6:4). All the events of John 6 are placed in a Passover…

My first insight from the reading: Becoming the Gospel Paul Participation and Mission. In chapter six, “Ephesians is one of six disputed or contested letters in the Pauline corpus, meaning that scholars debate its authorship” (Gorman 183). Therefore, my question is do the Ephesians letter was written close in time to Colossians letter? I think the same evident in the similar language that is used in both letters as well as the similar subject matter. Those who do not think that Paul wrote…

among them. What do these candlesticks represent, who is the one walking among them, and what is the significance? In Revelation 1:11, John is instructed to write in a book and send it to seven specific churches. Those churches are identified as Ephesus, Smyrna, Pergamos, Thyatira, Sardis, Philadelphia, and Laodicea, which were in Asia Minor. The seven candlesticks which John saw are clearly identified as the seven churches in Revelation 1:20.…

The Romans had lost their way in favour of the Christian religion. As a result, they found that threats were coming at them from all directions. Disaster both in Rome and from outside of Rome were having an impact on the Roman Empire. While this was the beginning of the end of the Roman Empire, it finally began to collapse around 476 AD. The Empire was once ruled by powerful rulers, who were able to conquer many lands, and later it was ruled by Emperors who were weak in nature. Instability…

No one knows the day nor the hour in which the Lord Jesus Christ will return to the earth in the days of judgment, sounds like something you would hear in the trailer of an apocalyptic thriller. Well in fact the book of Revelation which is the last book in the Bible speaks of an apocalyptic prophecy; the book is written by the Apostle John who is imprisoned on the island of Patmos. John, an elderly man, receives a vision of this revelation from an angel and was instructed to write what he had…

Epigraphy honoring benefactors allows for understanding that in the 1stand 2ndcenturies CE Asia Minor experienced unprecedented levels of benefaction. Elite community members were mostly responsible for the benefactions, sometimes guilds too but on a different scale.Thus far scholars have cited this unprecendented benefaction to, essentially, egos by saying these occurances happened so theindividual could receive honor. This thesis states While this may apply in some or…

Plague and the End of Antiquity Using twelve essays to form a volume, Plague and the End of Antiquity attempts to address the Justinianic Plague that ravaged the entire globe from c. 540-750. History, archaeology, epidemiology, and molecular biology are combined to “produce a comprehensive account of the pandemic’s origins, spread, and mortality, as well as its economic, social, political, and religious effects.” Because of the sheer magnitude and scope of the Justinianic Plauge, the editor of…

Kate Chopin 's "The Storm" was written in 1898 but was not published until 1969. What do you see as the central idea (theme) or message of this story? Do you agree with what you think this story says? The central idea in Kate Chopin’s “The Storm” can be various but one strongly noted in the short story is to seize the moment of happiness. Both Calixta, Alce, and Clarisse where noted for. Calixta and Alce seized the moment of happiness being intement with each other knowing they were both in a…

Furthermore, John’s gospel was written sometime between AD 55 and AD 95 (Carson 82) in Ephesus (ESV Study Bible) by John who was a fisherman called by Jesus to follow (Matthew 4:21). Also, John was a Jew from Palestine (Carson 71) and was one of the inner three disciples closest to Jesus (Matthew 17, Mark 5, Mark 14). Moreover, he was the “disciple whom Jesus loved” (John 13:23). John is said to have written his gospel from Ephesus; and his text was accepted and circulated among the church early…

the most notable were built in Delphi, Dodona, Oropos, Priene, Pergamum and Syracuse. A universal distribution of the Ionic order became popular in the temple architecture, especially in Asia Minor. The reconstruction of the temple of Artemis in Ephesus continued, a magnificent temple of Apollo was built in Didyma near Miletus, the construction of which lasted almost 200 years. The Temple of Apollo is a gigantic building with two rows of columns on long sides and three on the facade,…