Hebrew Bible

Righteous Sufferer The Bible is filled with wonderful stories that both inspire and more often than not, teach a lesson or rather allows readers to draw knowledge from the individuals within the stories. One such book is the book of Job, which is the story of a man who goes from living the good life, losing it all, and then getting it all back again. In the book of Job, In the Hebrew Bible, the author, uses imagery, symbolism, and irony to develop…

Stephen in his speech in Acts told the abridged version of the Hebrew Bible. While doing so he decided to include and exclude different stories, as well as characters from the old testament as he so choose. I will try and explain here the reasons why he selected what he did, and also address the question of the order of the stories. Overall, I believe that which was included, was so for the reason of creating a different image of God as well as the stories of the Old Testament. Starting…

The Book of Genesis was the first book of the Hebrew Bible and the Christian Old Testament. Genesis 1 of the bible describes the creation of the world in accordance to the image of God. According to the Book of Genesis, the world was described to be “formless and desolate”. The Earth already had water, but was covered in complete darkness, as there was no light to begin with. God created the world in numerous days and not one day. God’s first creation was by a command. That command was, “Let…

The author of Dominion and Dynasty: A Theology of the Hebrew Bible is Stephen G. Dempster, PhD, a professor of Religious Studies at Crandall University in New Brunswick, Canada. According to the Crandall University online biography, Dempster received his education from the University of Western Ontario, Westminster Theological Seminary, the University of Toronto, and Jerusalem University College. Along with his teaching at Crandall University and authorship of Dominion and Dynasty, he has…

To understand these regulations we must always consider the context in which these are written as many were written in the Hebrew Bible in a time with a completely different culture to our own. For example one of the unquestionable regulations in the Bible is that of making adultery immoral. This can not be said to be down to the current culture of the time as it is clearly still the same case today. On the opposite side of this is that of Deuteronomy 22:28-29 where it is said that that if a…

The dove is the first to note and goes on to be mentioned several times throughout the bible serving as a harbinger of peace for Noah in Genesis. After the great flood, “the dove came to him in the evening; and, lo, in her mouth was an olive leaf pluckt off: so Noah knew that the waters were abated from off the earth” (Genesis 8:11). The dove…

Shaunakay Clarke Professor Humanities 111 21 December 2016 Based upon the Hebrew Bible, evil in why do you think that there is sin and the world? How does the Creation story explain original sin? In what way does free will function in the development of sin? Why is free will, despite sin, necessary for a healthy relationship not only between God and people, but between people themselves? How would you explain Adam and Eve’s introduction of evil into the world? Before transgression entered the…

stands true due to the numerous amounts of instances in the Hebrew Bible; the concept that seems to be emphasized most strongly throughout the Hebrew Bible is that God wants his followers to devote themselves to Him and Him alone. Before the concept of a single god appeared, when people needed luck, good fertility, rain, or any other form of help, they would worship a certain god for a certain necessity. But according to the Hebrew Bible, God would often show great power in certain situations…

Mesopotamian cultural has a large influence on Hebrew Bible. By comparing Mesopotamian art and literature with Hebrew Bible, It is easy to see that there are many Mesopotamian cultural elements embedded in the Old Testimony, and one of them are the human-head animal-body guardian figure. It is a common phenomenon that each ancient civilization has its own mythical protector(s): the dragon and Tao tie in ancient China, the sphinx in Egypt, the cherubim in Israel, and the Lamasu in Mesopotamia.…

In comparison to the Christian New Testament, the references to demons in the Hebrew Bible are scarce. In fact, the word “demon” is never mentioned. However this may be, Rabbis and practicing Jews alike did not let this stop them from expanding on the supernatural in Jewish folklore. There are many beings under God’s control that are found in the Hebrew Bible and many that are not, found elsewhere in folklore or non-canonical texts. To have God in control of malevolent spirits is troublesome for…