Old Testament

The name “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…

in the Old Testament is not unfamiliar; in fact, there is likely a time when every individual’s conscience is shocked by a particular story when reading the Old Testament. The seemingly different portraits of God between the Old Testament vengeance and New Testament’s Savior of the world is almost beyond human comprehension. While watching the video “Violence in the Old Testament: Seven Minute Seminary” (Stone, 2013), Dr. Stone attempted to address the issue of violence in the Old Testament.…

Introduction In order to understand the status of women in the Old Testament it is important to first understand the culture of the Old Testament. Many of the laws that were implemented were not necessarily because of women inequality but for the protection of the women. Feminist today may view the scripture as misogynistic because they do not understand the culture of the time or are simply examining and analyzing from a modern perspective. The intentions of God is never to create inequality…

of the bible. I am familiar with the main stories taught in Sunday school and the stories that my family told me, however I know very little about the Old Testament. I am able to recall many of the main stories as well as a few chapters in the Old Testament, but I would say that my knowledge is strongly lacking. My main knowledge of the Old Testament is there are many prophets, holy figures, and foreshadowing for what Jesus will be like when he comes. Some parts of the Bible confuse me and make…

can define suffering as to be submitted to or to be forced to endure. We can also add to the definition by saying that suffering is inevitable or unavoidable. Those who read the Old Testament find that people are expected to endure the pains of suffering in their lives. Throughout the Bible, especially the old testament, God’s people endured suffering and the faith of God’s people was always being tested. On the other hand, Buddhist traditions view suffering a little differently. Buddhism’s…

Jerusalem to the ends of the earth. Pentecost is not the first time the Holy Spirit appeared. The Holy Spirit is present in the Old Testament, in the ministry of Jesus and then culminates for all time at Pentecost. The Holy Spirit, the third person of the Trinity, is present in the Old Testament. It is interesting to note that the term “Holy Spirit” is not used in the Old Testament. Terms that are used to describe the Spirit are: Spirit of the Lord, my Spirit, the Spirit, the Spirit of God, the…

Research Paper Old Testament Survey Evelyn The word Bible comes from the Greek word Biblos, which means “book.” In a sense, the Bible is one unified Book. God speaks with one voice throughout His Book, calling us to accept His offer of eternal life and follow His commands. But the Bible is also made up of individual books—thirty-nine in the Old 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…

Mission in the Old Testament, Israel as a light to the Nations. Walter C. Kaiser Jr. Kaiser believed that mission in the Old Testament is tied to the mission seen in the New Testament in which Israel was involved in the mission to draw people to Jesus. The first chapter, Kaiser says that mission was always centered on God’s plan, “the first Great Commission mandate of the Bible” p. xix. Also in Genesis 12:1–3, where God set to promise to bless Abraham and bless all peoples through him. God also…

Introduction The Old Testament announced beforehand the message of the resurrection, and this message is the mercy and the grace of YHWH to save us from our sins. The New Testament was written having the resurrection of Christ as the foundation of its message. The prophecies concerning the last days, which the prophet Joel wrote, would begin to be fulfilled at the resurrection. The resurrection shows Christ’s power over death, allowing us to have a new life, an eternal one, with God in His…

In the article by Brueggemann, he reviews the history of Old Testament theology from the Reformation to modern times. His main insight, in the article covers the Reformation and The Critical Enterprise, is that, though the reformers freed the Bible from being read only under the teaching of Roman Catholic tradition, their ideas quickly hardened into theological systems and dogmas under which the Bible was read. The same became true of the various critical methods. One cannot fully escape one’s…