Marcela Robet Holocaust in Film Dr. Roy Mittelman June 14, 2016 The Garden of the Finzi-Contains is an Italian film portraying the effects on Italian Jews in Ferrara Italy, with the rise of Mussolini in World War II. The film narratives one of the wealthiest Jewish family Finzi-Contain family tries to wall itself off from the Holocaust. The children of the Finzi-Contains family, Micol and Alberto, invite their circle of friends for continuous rounds of tennis at their garden, since there…
A sacred tree is all it takes to introduce sin to the pure. “the Lord God commanded the man, ‘You are free to eat from any tree in the garden; but you must not eat from the tree of knowledge of good and evil, for when you eat from it you will certainly die.’” Why would god and the other believers allow these people to commit these forbidden sins? However, who could resist the temptation of knowledge and the desire for something you can’t have. Women play an immense role in both stories, for…
Whether the world was created from the corpse of an ice giant, nothingness, or the songs of a supreme being's thoughts, similarities remain between these seemingly very different myths. This paper will compare and contrast the spontaneous creation of the world from nothingness, Ex Nihilo, from the biblical account, the creation of the world by Iluvatar's Ainur, and the splitting of the corpse of Ymir to form the Earth. Similarities that shall be covered are birth, mother and/or fathers of…
Ancient Israel was a nation in a state of constant flux. From thousands of years ago up to the present, the region has changed drastically, affecting the lives of millions. At the center of this discord lies the city of Jerusalem. Throughout its history, Jerusalem has been attacked, defended, destroyed, and rebuilt over its long history. Of the thousands of cities in the world, Jerusalem is lauded as one of the holiest, holding significance in Judaism, Christianity, and Islam. Thousands of years…
Being one of the oldest monotheistic religions, Zoroastrianism began in ancient Persia around 1500 to 1200BC by Zoroaster who believed that there was only one god Ormazd or Ahura Mazda which means "Wise Lord." There are many similarities between Zoroastrianism and Judaism. Ahura Mazda who was not created but was omniscient, omnipresent, eternal and endowed with creative powers along with his six Spenta Mainyu or "Holy Spirits" named Vohumanah, Asha Vahishta, Khehathra Vairya, Spenta Armaith,…
that the days were twenty-four hours, but did not believe they were millions of years either. Jaclyn posited that they could be just compartments the writer of Genesis used to compartmentalize and categorize…
have the ability to reason and reflect on what is happening to them and why? We can explore our human nature and the divine nature of God and attempt to discern God’s will for his creation. Christians believe that God created us in His image. Genesis 1:26 “The God said, “Let us make mankind in our image, in our likeness, so that they may rule over the fish in the sea and the birds in the sky, over the livestock and all the wild animals, and over all the creatures that move along the…
OT2100-Week Five-Israel Qualities Discussion God is always at work in the lives of those He has called for a specific task. God prepares His servants for service as it is seen in the life of Moses and Joshua. Moses’s preparation began from the time he was born. Every event that took place in Moses’s life was orchestrated by God. From the time Moses was drawn out of the river by Pharaoh’s daughter (Ex. 2:5-10), he was raised in the ways of the Egyptians. Moses was educated by the Egyptians…
Kuitert was one of the key players in progressing this theory in the theological community. His argument in a nutshell was this: We need to see the biblical authors and their texts within the time they wrote it in. Moses spoke of a firmament in Genesis 1:6 but one cannot speak of a firmament literally as it is actually just an effect of light. In this same setting Adam and Eve are mentioned and since there is no reason to believe an actual firmament existed, there is also no reason to believe…
fowls, he recognized that there was not a helper that was suitable for Adam. Therefore, God, caused a deep sleep to fall upon him, and he took a rib from his side, and formed woman. Through this process, God created woman and brought her to Adam. Genesis 2:23 tells the readers Adam’s first spoken words when he saw Eve was, “This is now bone of my bones, and flesh of my flesh; She shall be called Woman, because she was taken out Man.” This abstract or general idea is the foundational thought from…