Mount Sinai

As I walked down the hall, I could not stop smiling as I waited to go in the classroom and meet my new teacher. With my head hanging, I started hearing a group of my classmates laugh and when I looked up I realized I was the joke. Tears began to flow down my cheek and run off my face, one of my classmates asked, “what's wrong?”, and as I began to think about it I cried even more. “I hate being here, I feel so out of place, I don’t understand why everyone hates me!”, the little voices in my head…

When analyzing Biblical concept of the covenant in the light of scriptures, it is very important to recognize its political, religious and historical significance. This essay examines why one cannot understand the meaning of Jewish legal observance without understanding the meaning of the covenant. I will also offer a definition of what a covenant is and how it is related to the law which the Jewish people practice and finely provide textual evidence from the book of Genesis 1: 29, Exodus 19:4…

“Capital punishment refers to the execution by the state of those guilty of certain crimes” which refer, to end the criminal's life. So it is a difficult subject to discuss as there are many different opinions and perspectives on whether Christians should or should not or sometimes support the use of capital punishment using secular influences and the tenets of their faith. One of the principal argument is “Scripture mandates capital punishment” which is from the old testament, the first part…

Nowadays, physicians will often prescribe medication, order test, or even perform procedures when they are not even necessary. One research done by the Mount Sinai School of Medicine found that $6.7 billion was spent during one year performing unneeded test or prescribing unnecessary medicines in primary care. (2011, October 14). Retrieved from http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2011/10/111003144716.htm All of this extra treatment can become extremely hazardous to one’s health and very pricey…

from Moses: the Statue of Liberty. Sculptor Frederic Bartholdi “chose a Roman Goddess as his model” but used Moses iconography of the “rays of sun around her head” and “the tablet in her arms, both of which come from the moment that Moses descends Mount Sinai with the Ten Commandments” (Feiler). The Daily Beast also contends that Moses is actually the inspiration behind Superman, stating that although the creators looked at Greek mythology, Arthurian legend, and science fiction as inspiration,…

In Paul Farmer’s book, Infections and Inequalities, the author writes about his experience as a physician anthropologist in rural Haiti. Farmer writes with the intent to challenge the modern view on how tuberculosis and HIV are treated in economically developing countries and also to emphasize how closely these two deadly diseases are related. As one of his main arguments, Farmer disputes the common notion that public health efforts in developing countries must solely focus on “cost-effective”…

with his troops, and after an attack that resulted in the deaths of innocent people, Unit 101 was discontinued. In 1956, there was an Arab-Israeli war over a conflict over the Suez Canal, and Ariel Sharon disregarded orders and led an attack on the Sinai Peninsula in Egypt, resulting in consequences of his leadership. However, by the time of the Six-Day War in 1967, he had risen to the rank of major general and led troops in seizing territories for future Jewish settlements. Another instance…

1. The book of Deuteronomy began at the end of when Moses had passed on which has him “giving the law.” It was introduced twice in two different parts of the book. There are two major keywords – Listen and Love. In Hebrew listen means more than just listening to what you hear it also means responding. In other words, for Israel, it means responding to God’s grace and obeying the laws of the covenant. While love is the true motivation for listening and obeying the laws. Israel will not obey…

to place like Mount Sinai, the same mountain where Moses received the Ten Commandments from God (336). Scripture also guides her journey as every place is related to the Bible allowing for her to discover her beliefs as a Christian to share with others. Egeria’s wishes understand the meaning of taking pilgrimage and the significance of God’s divinity not what outcomes will affect her at the end of this journey. Through the physical feats of walking up the large mountains, like Sinai and Nebo,…

Many places and individuals have set rules that they live by day to day. Followers of God live by a set of rules that were given to Moses, on Mount Sinai two months after Israel left Egypt. God told Moses to take the laws back to Israel and make them a covent. Moses put The Ten Commandments in a box and made it an Ark of the Covenant, so it could be put into Holy of Holies, a temple built by Solomon. The website bibleinfo.com breaks down the laws given to the Israelites to get a better…