Hebrew Bible

conflict occurring in Israel has created unmasked tension between the Arabs and Jews who are sharing the land. This has created a culture of each group wanting to garner support and sympathy for their “side” of the conflict. As an Arab writing to a Hebrew audience, one might assume Kashua uses his newspaper column to promote the Arab side. While Kashua does partake in telling stories pertaining to the conflict, such as stories of the discrimination he faces as an Arab, his stories appear to…

Known as the mother language, Yiddish was common and a symbol of traditional life in the household. Speakers considered it to be rather feminine due to its prevalence in usage of non-scholarly individuals. But because most people were not scholarly, the language connected most Jews together and kept them from assimilating to the new world. Language is a basis for culture and culture creates connections in societies. Yiddish helped Jews keep their traditional culture by giving them a way to…

women were encouraged to begin studying the bible so that they could become religious influences for their husband and children. Female Convents The Protestant Reformation put an end to female convents. Martin Luther finalized this opinion by stating “the wife should stay at home and look after the affairs of the household…” Women During the Reformation (Cont.) Social Attitudes Towards Women Women's writings were often destroyed, because of the Bible edict that stated that women were to…

One of my favorite words is “shalom.” Shalom is a Hebrew word that has multiple meanings. It is commonly used as a greeting in Jewish culture, utilized similarly to the English “hello.” It literally translates as “well-being be upon you” or “may you be well.” Jesus even appropriated a similar phrase in John 20:2, “shalom Aleichem,” which in English is literally translated as “Peace be unto you.” It can also be used to refer to peace between entities or individuals. Jewish people may call for…

Jews for many years had no nation of their own, and so they were disseminated among many other different people and nations. After Expulsion indicates the difficulties the Jewish people went through not only with non-Jews, but also within the ties of Hebrew blood. Jews were not fully accepted by Christians or Muslims and had many separations among themselves. There were influential people within the Jewish community who did what they could to keep their people held together. The Jews were forced…

father urged him to combine modern secular studies with his devotion to Talmud and Kabbalah. Of his mother, he says, "Her dream was to make me into a doctor of philosophy; I should be both a Ph.D. and a rabbi." [7] And his father made him learn modern Hebrew, a skill with which he was later able to make his livelihood as a journalist for an Israeli newspaper. Wiesel remembers his father, an "emancipated," if religious Jew, saying to him, "Listen, if you want to study Talmud, if you want to study…

For over 2,000 years, Jewish people have established amongst many places with different cultures, such as Iran, Israel, western Mediterranean, North Africa, Europe, and the Americas. Their roots come from the Middle East, especially Israel. The population of Israel has a mixture of native-born Jews, Arabs, and Jewish immigrants. Arabs is the largest group which in 2007 were 1,400,000 people, which accounted for approximately 20% of the population in this country (Ben-Arye, Lev, Keshet, & Schiff…

common with each other in the Gospels. They talk about Jesus in a large crowds and how people will not listen to Jesus even with silence. God put these parables out for us, so that we could understand his spiritual lessons through his stories in the bible. Mark starts off with Jesus getting in a boat to go out onto a lake, because the crowds around were too large for him to stand in them. People probably ask why Jesus couldn’t just fly or speak really loud. But the reason…

Thomas Cahill argues that the Jews greatly affected Western society. Although the Jews are small in number, their contributions affect the way all people - both Jewish and non-Jewish behave. Firstly, Judaism introduced the concept of democracy to the world. In the book of Shmot, when G-d defeats the demi-god Pharoah, He proves no political figure can be a god. Furthermore, the 10 plagues are a direct attack against Egyptian gods: the transformation of the Nile river into blood an affront to the…

Essay #1 Draft: Close Reading Contrary to popular belief, the stereotypical “real man” who never shows emotion does not reflect mature, developed behavior. It is easy to assume that if one does not show emotion, he/she is not present, and that by suppressing those emotions one can make them “go away.” Plato argues in “Republic,” his seminal work that describes his ideal city, that not only is suppressing the emotions of sadness, humor, or passion essential in a perfect society, but that the…