Hebrews

and go back hundreds of years. Some are about solemn occasions but some are more lively and festive. Jews have their own calendar, The Hebrew Calendar. Their calendar is based upon lunar orbits which one cycle is 29.5 days. A lunar year is 354 days which is 11 days less than the solar year which is 365.25 days. The Jewish society add an extra month to the Hebrew calendar seven times out of every 19 years. If they did not do this their holidays would not be celebrated on time. All Jewish holidays…

The Hebrew Bible is the sacred book of the Hebrew people, and the book of Genesis is the original book of the Old Testament. The Hebrew Bible is the world’s oldest text that appears from the eleventh and twelfth centuries BCE. The book tells a story of God’s creation of the universe in seven days and the establishment of human civilization. In this short persuasive essay, I am going to discuss Genesis I, and want to talk about the Hebrew people and their significant belief in God and creation.…

The Hebrew Bible presents Balaam as a foreign seer who is capable of bestowing blessings and curses. In the passage of interest, the Moabite King Balak feared the approach of the Israelites and decided to contract Balaam to curse the Israelites. Yet Balaam does the bidding of God and refuses to curse the Israelites for Balak, instead blessing the Israelites through a series of poems. However, there are also inscriptions discovered in a sanctuary dedicated to the babylonian divine assembly that…

There are many attributes to the making of a Psalm, like most literature, the Psalms have a structure, or feature, that it follows. However, the feature, or topic, for this dialogue is on what parallelism is, and why it is an important element of Hebrew poetry. Parallelism can be defined, as Lucas would say, “words or phrases in one line [which] correspond in some way to those in the other.” Robert Deffinbaugh gives a great analogy of parallelism by referencing it to “stereo vision and stereo…

History 115 Spring Exam 2018 The selected quote, which is from the book of Genesis (3:17) in the Hebrew Bible, speaks to the decisions made by Adam and Eve which had a negative impact on the rest of humanity who would exist after them. Due to the fact that this source, the old testament of the Hebrew Bible, is one which holds great power and authority, the words within this quote as well as the entire document itself, had and remain to have an impact on the lives of millions in the past, present…

The book of Hebrews is one of the longer letters in the New Testament aside from Paul’s letter to the Romans. As for authorship, Paul was once identified as the author but the language, style of the book and theology do not coincide with the way Paul would have composed it. However, it seems as though the author was a Christian scholar of some sort with knowledge of the Greek philosophy and the Hebrew Bible. In regards to the structure of the book, it is more similar to a sermon than a letter…

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…

There he stood; assiduously swaying from side to side, his sincere eyes expressive in one protracted, searching gaze. As he led us through our daily hebrew prayers, all around me in the Beit Tefilah - the largest prayer site at URJ Camp Newman - other Jewish teens and children were actively singing along with his every word, as though the prayers he chanted spoke to them individually. And, as we sang, the encircling nature seemed to hum and whistle along with this rabbi’s ringing voice and the…

describes what seems to be an eye-witness account to the suffering of the people who had once called the city their home. Jeremiah, who is traditionally thought to be the author of these laments, demonstrates a level of emotion that readers of the Hebrew Bible have yet to encounter in any of the previous books. There are several poetic elements that are present within the chapters of Lamentations, but the element that resonates the most is the symbolism. It is clear to the reader that there is…

into your body while you are doing a spell or a ritual. It is mainly used during the ritual for the Five-Fold Kiss and Drawing down the Moon. Bless is an old English word that means to make holy, give thanks and to consecrate your tools. Here the Hebrew word “brk” stands for to bend, praise, and invoke a blessing and worship. It is used as an invocation of the deity of the Goddess and the God that involves a Five-fold kiss, starting at the feet and working your way up to the lips. It involves…