Jephthah

Over the course of the second half of this class’s readings, one reads into the latter and larger part of the Old Testament, as well as the earlier portion of the New Testament. This provides a nice transitionary period in realizing the connection between some of the Messianic and other prophecies made in the prophetic books of the Old Testament with the realizations of those prophecies in the New Testament, with both the exile of Israel, and the birth and life of Jesus Christ. Immediately…

Edgar came from a musically talented family his mother was an opera singer and his father was a composer. This is how he got interested in the arts. Through his painting years, Degas painted large portraits and historical paintings “The Daughter of Jephthah,” “Semiramis Building Babylon” and “Scene War” during the middle ages. He gave these paintings to teachers and French artist. “During the…

rescued them they didn’t learn from their lesson. For example, every time the judge would die the people would go back to their old ways of worshipping other Gods. Some of the major judges that God appointed are; Otheniel, Ehud, Deborah, Gideon, Jephthah, and Samson. These judges helped the Israelites to conquer some territory through wars. Now, some of the minor judges are; shangar, Tola, Jair, Ibzan, Elon, and Abdon. Even though, most of these judges had personal issues like unbelief towards…

The period between Joshua, Judges, and Ruth was an unique era. In Joshua, the Israelites had to fight many battles and conquer cities and towns to obtain land. In Judges we read that Israel needed constant rescuing, as God was punishing them for their lawlessness. Lastly, in Ruth we see how God works out His sovereign plan, even through seemingly ordinary means. Joshua is a book of conquering and allotting land. It opens as God gives Joshua a promise of victory (1:2-5) and a command to be…

In “Feminist Hermeneutics and Biblical Studies,” the author Phyllis Trible mentions about the feminist exists in the Hebrew Scripture. He states that since people are born and bred in the times of patriarchy for a long time, Bible “abounds” in male imagery and language (Phyllis 1). Because of this, interpreters shape the contours, articulate theology, content of the church, and instruct human beings with this male language. However, with the influence of feminism in the past decades, people…

Once upon a time there was a young prince named Hamlet. Hamlet was the son of King Hamlet, who was recently murdered. The ghost of King Hamlet visited Prince Hamlet mentioning that he was stuck in purgatory until his murderer was killed. Throughout the play, Hamlet seeks to kill the murderers by appearing to be mad. Many characters throughout the play portray a characteristic that is later proven to be unreal. In the play Hamlet by William Shakespeare the characters Hamlet, Gertrude, Polonius,…

Judges: The book of judges is a book written in essence to raise awareness of Gods greatness as the ultimate judge and that “religious compromise lead to moral corruption” (Hindson & Towns, 2013). It is said to be written by the prophet Samuel, no actual proof of authorship has been confirmed, but he was a major spiritual leader in this time period (Hindson & Towns, 2013). Due to the characters listed in the book and assumed author, an estimated date of 1050-1000 BC has been given as well as a…

David Jephthah Critical Analysis/Issue paper Introduction The purpose of this paper is to critically analyze the pressing needs and reoccurring issues in a community. It also describes vividly the operations on a nonprofit organization that addresses these issues. The factors that gives rise to this issues, the socio-economic effect in relation to the issue would be discussed. In addition, other nonprofit organizations responses, positive inputs and assistance as regards the issue would be…

Jesus Christ often taught His followers in parables (cf. Mt. 13:34). On one occasion Jesus taught a parable of laborers in the vineyard and the master in the parable agreed to give the workers whatever is right (Mt. 20:4). Christians need to always be concerned with what is the right thing and to pursue righteousness (Mt. 6:33). The only way that one can be sure whether what he or she is practicing is right will be if they test it against the Divine standard, God’s Word (1 Thess. 5:21-22; 1 Jn.…

In the novel “Fear and Trembling” by Soren Kierkegaard, one of the main topic discussed was ethical and how it was associated with the universal. Also, how ethical is related to tragic hero and the knight of faith. For instance, the action of a tragic hero, like agamemnon sacrificing his daughter is still ethical because his action was done publicly and for common good. Ethical is temptation for the knight of Faith because they have the choice to do something right. For instance, abraham had the…