Old Testament

oldest part of the Holy Bible, is the Old Testament, which is based on the interpretations and comparisons of biblical manuscripts and citations by the different Judaic and Christian religious sects. What has become apparent is how little most of us really know about the history that was written in the Old Testament because as children, teenagers and young adults we were not to question what is written in the Holy Bible.…

incidents occurred in both Gilgamesh and the Old Testament and were used several times throughout the texts. Both of these books illustrate violence, and this violence is in the story for a reason. Violence in both of the books have meaning, or a point behind why the violence was happening. Even pointless violence, which happened in both books, at the end had a point or a lesson to be learned from the violence. Also, in both Gilgamesh and the Old Testament the violence can be justified at times…

Torah or "the Teachings," which consisted of the first five books of the Old Testament. The process of reading, researching, and writing, followed by more reading, researching and writing was a challenge. I found out how the Old Testament originally began as several stories of numerous people that was traditionally transferred orally from father to son over period of several centuries. The final written form of the Old Testament is a compilation of several stories, documents, manuscripts that…

Out of Job’s namesake book in the Old Testament comes a familiar story that is known for the grueling trials of one of God’s most devout servants. Job appears to be spared from no form of suffering; his children are slaughtered, his fortune dissipates, and his community ostracizes him. The man who earned his fame from pious actions and abiding by God’s word seems to have been paradoxically abandoned by his maker, initializing a deep agitation in Job’s previously secure philosophy. Although these…

think that as long as people are practicing religion people are also arguing its validity in the same right. The Old Testament bible referred to by christians is actually the jewish Torah. The original religion was judaism. Only with Jesus Christ (King of the Jews) was there a branch off from the jewish religion to what are now called Christians. The argument between Judaism is a dispute as old as time. Being that the two religions are so similar and have half of the same religious texts, it can…

was renamed the Republic of Gilead, resulting with new laws derived from the bible which deprived many Gileadean citizens from their rights. Throughout the novel distorted biblical allusions and christian ideology are utilized from within the Old Testament in order for the patriarchal regime to show efficiency towards citizens. Moreover,…

of this paper is to highlight the genre that is described as prophecy. Biblical prophecy can be described as a passage that containing any type of prophecy. This particular literary genre can be consistently found throughout Old Testament writings as well as a few New Testament passages. Throughout the course of this paper, there will elaborate information on supporting points such as essential elements of biblical genre, examples of biblical genre throughout text, interpretive implications for…

While the comparison of Old Testament theology may seem somewhat contradictory or unrelated to many fields of study, with careful consideration for the essence of the Old Testament, one may come to find that the study of the Old Testament can be enhanced by his or her field or that his or her field may be enhanced by studying the Old Testament. The field of psychology in comparison to the Old Testament can be considered in this way too because the Old Testament provides examples as well as is…

Serpents in literature often have a negative connotation attached to them. In both “The Epic of Gilgamesh” and The Old Testament’s tale of Adam and Eve, the character of the serpent plays a large role. It can be argued that the serpent in “The Epic of Gilgamesh” played both a positive and negative role, whereas the serpent in The Old Testament was primarily an antagonistic character. By looking at the general symbolism of serpents in literature, it is easy to uncover the important yet slightly…

Albert Schweitzer once said, “Example is not the main thing in influencing others. It is the only thing.”(GoodReads). While some are aware of small portions of Christianity’s history, many are unaware of the cultures and religions that influenced the spread of the religion as well as the religion’s practices, beliefs, and churches. From Rome’s influences on the church as a state, the architecture of Christian churches, and the spread of the religion, to Jewish influences on the Christian Bible,…