History of ancient Israel and Judah

responding to implied (or assumed) objections to his previous edicts. For example, the Israelites believed God’s election and faithfulness in previous generations protected them from judgment. However, Amos provided evidence showing that God’s election of Israel only exposed them to greater judgment because of the responsibility of being God’s elect and their covenant relationship with Yahweh. Author Robert Jamison commented, “the greater the privileges, the heavier the punishment for the…

wide city-walls with towers and a city-gate complex.” The space within was used by governmental entities and the general populace. Price writes regarding the instability and decrease in governmental strength within the land of Judah. He says, “One of the attacks on Judah that took place shortly after Solomon’s death was by the Egyptian pharaoh Shishak, who plundered the Temple treasuries in Jerusalem (1 Kings 14:25-26). In 1994, an inscribed stele bearing his name was unearthed at Megiddo.”…

sacred spaces on Earth. People from all over the world partake in the sacred pilgrimage to the city not only for spiritual gratification, but also for an enrichment of the mind and soul. The journey allows pilgrims to observe and experience the rich history embedded in the soil of Jerusalem, an experience that cannot be felt through literature and photographs. The sacred and holy nature of Jerusalem stems from the biblical texts of Genesis, 2 Samuels, 2 Chronicles, and Psalms in the New Oxford…

Testament and twenty-seven in the New Testament. These books were written under God’s inspiration by many different authors over a period of many centuries. The thirty-nine individual Old Testament also contains many different types of literature: law, history, poetry, prophecy, and wisdom writings. From Genesis to Deuteronomy, these books are known as the Books of the Law. Genesis, the first book in the Bible, is an overview on the creation of man, animals, and the physical universe and…

period of history and is not an expression for the end of history. The prophet's future was not eschatology. It means "a future that is not presently discernible." It denotes "in varying contexts a remote future that paradoxically reverse the present situation and at the same time brings to a fitting outcome that toward which it is striving." There is a sense of conclusiveness but this is the results of attaining perfection and stability and is not the result of bringing history to a close…

the sun can mean so much in our everyday lives or to other cultures around the world like Egypt. “Aten is regarded as a king with cartouches for his names and is considered to celebrate the royal jubilee festivals “(Wikispaces). The history of the poem begins in ancient Egypt with Amenhotep IV; From 1350 to 1334 BC, he became a monotheist by worshipping the sun god Aten. Aten, similar to the sun-disk, was the creator of all life and was a god of goodness and divine benevolence. Amenhotep was so…

the first five books of the bible and was written in the 15th century BC by Moses in the wilderness of Sinai. The word Genesis in Hebrew is Bereshith, translating to ‘in the beginning’. The book of Genesis was written as a narrative to record the history of the beginning. These books were written for Abraham 's descendants so that they would know why they were going to the Promised Land. The people needed to know where they and the world came from, how humanity had originally failed, and how God…

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…

Throughout history, many civilizations have appeared and subsequently disappeared. How societies function has also differed drastically from one society to another. In ancient Mesopotamian and Hebrew civilizations, however, three roles have been constant: the importance of family, the importance of religion, and the importance of government. Although their order of priority was not set in stone, one can see their significance in daily life. The play Antigone, written by the Greek playwrighter…

scholars recognize Alter’s contribution to the discussion regarding biblical narrative and literary analysis. In 1985, Lyle M. Eslinger published Kingship of God in Crisis (1985). In the first part of the book, Eslinger offered a critique of the history of criticism regarding 1 Samuel 1–12. According to him, the historical critical method losses sight of the whole meaning of the text. Similar to Gunn, Eslinger dealt with his delineated text only. Eslinger approached the…