Jerusalem

Throughout history two terms, Messiah and Son of God, have been used by different people to indicate differing expectations as to who the savior of Israel was going to be. The term messiah is from the Hebrew word mashiach, meaning anointed. In the Greek, the word cristos translates into Christ, and it too means anointed. By identifying Jesus as the Messiah and the Son of God, Mark is conveying to his first-century audience that Jesus was a suffering Messiah and the Son of God who encompassed…

The Star of David is a symbol used to identify Judaism. It’s supposed to represent the shape of King David’s shield (Levine 2015). This symbol is well respected in Israel, it’s part of their national flag. It’s called a hexagram or six-point star (Levine 2015). One of the first Jewish uses of the Star is part of the colophon; part of the embroidery of the title page of a book, the printer sometimes included the family name on the colophon which showed class and wealth (Levine 2015). Today the…

justify Jerusalem as a sacred space. The “Holy Land” does not have the qualities of a “great city”. It is not on route to any important place, it does not have a trading market, nor is it on the coast of the Mediterranean Sea. However, it does have a small source of water, the Gihon Spring, which is reason enough to settle anywhere. Additionally, it has many hills and valleys like the Kidron Valley, Hinnom Valley and the Tyropean Valley that serve as natural defenses to the city of Jerusalem.…

revelation from the Hebrew Bible that Solomon reveals that Jerusalem is seen as the place in which God dwells. In Judaism Jerusalem is the holiest city. Jerusalem has long been in embedded into Jewish tradition and study. There are many stories of Jerusalem in the Tanakh. Such as the story of the Binding of Isaac. Prior to the First Temple built by Solomon Abraham was to sacrifice his son Isaac at Mount Moriah. This is the same place in Jerusalem in which Solomon later built the First Temple.…

“Zechariah” means “the Lord (Jehovah) remembers.” In the Old Testament this name is used over twenty-nine times. Zechariah was a postexilic prophet during the restoration from Babylon. He was born in Babylon from a priestly family that returned to Jerusalem with some 50,000 other exiles. Like Jeremiah and Ezekiel he was both prophet and priest. Jewish tradition credits him with being one of the Great Synagogue, a body which is thought to have gathered and preserved the sacred writings and…

decision to write down the oral law? Does he approve of writing down the oral law or not, and why? Does he think it’s a good idea to write down the oral law in his own context, and why? How does this relate to the argument Mendelssohn is making in Jerusalem? In particular, how does Mendelssohn see the question of writing down the oral law relate to the printing of Jewish legalistic books? Mendelssohn states that because ancient Judaic texts were not originally written, but where entrusted to us…

saucy-lad, green-eyed and ruddy-checked and fair with no whit for the holy church” (97). While in Jerusalem, Godric visits the site where Jesus cruelly suffered. In addition, He compares Rome to Jerusalem stating, “Rome and her glory were of all things dead. While Jerusalem is still alive because he sees our lady and the holy sepulcher” (102). Godric weeps for all his sins he committed in Jerusalem. His baptized in the river Jordan and he describes his experience as, “The soul, is set free from…

Empire. As the Arabs was in the process of replaces Christian churches with Islamic mosques, they were able to experiment with different architectural forums and new Islamic styles. One of the earliest Islamic mosques is the Dome of the Rock in Jerusalem. Afterward, many beautiful palaces, mosques and universities followed. In the end, the Islamic Empire became a city that was easy for traveling. There were numbers styles of buildings that flowed around with the mixture of Roman and Sasanian…

allegories and robed statues of the gods plus mythological scenes.” In 168 B.C. he conquered Jerusalem, and inside the Jewish temple, slaughtered a pig on an idol he built to the god, Jupiter. In referencing the Abomination of Desolation in the book of Daniel, Christ linked the Antichrist to Antiochus (Mark 13:14). Antichrist — like Antiochus before him — will also set up an idol in the future temple in Jerusalem and sacrifice to it. The Bible also associates the Antichrist to another person —…

I. INTRODUCTION: (JERUSALEM 2004-2006 AND PART ONE: JERUSALEM 1898) Pulitzer Prize-winning reporter and author, Amy Dockser Marcus, wrote the novel Jerusalem 1913: The origins of the Arab-Israeli conflict in the year 2007. Marcus was a journalist working for New York City’s The Wall Street Journal in 1991. She flew to Tel Aviv, Israel in September. The stories and facts she has about this topic are interesting because she has actual historical background and knowledge about it. She is able to…