Old Testament

Viewing the world in different ways can reveal radically different things about the same situation. Similarly, the way a book is written and narrated can present a biased or unbiased representation of a situation. Currently, a militia of ranchers are occupying a wildlife refuge in Oregon and there are two vastly different views of the situation. The conservative news organizations claim that they’re heroes, standing up for what is right and bringing attention to federal issues. However,…

“This Strange and Sacred Scripture” raises a plethora of questions to sections of the Bible people have always thought to have had answers too. As someone who has always taken the Bible at face value and believed everything to be true; both the Old Testament class and Schlimm’s book make me question what I truly know as a fact from the Bible. Both the class and the book make me wonder why God did certain things in a particular way too. One of the first topics of Schlimm’s book that we discussed…

only help bring people to biblical understandings. After looking at the ancient Near East literature and Proverbs I can confidently come to the conclusion that there are parallels between them. In the book Ancient Near Eastern Thought and the Old Testament, John H. Walton suggest, “One of the principles that shows up often in the ancient Near East as well as in Israel , explicitly as well as implicitly, regarding both how God acts and how society works, is the idea of just retribution”…

I always been interested in religion. First because I grew up Catholic and the idea of burning for eternity sounded unpleasant as a child. Then. I opened my mind to different theologies. In a long quest to understand religion objectively. (This is only a comparison of beliefs not religions.) I came across a seemingly simple question. Is Idolatry a thing of the past or as ubiquitous as ever? Idolatry is worship of an Idol. A form of extreme admiration, love or reverence for someone or…

1) The two chronicles of the flood, Ovids metamorphoses and the Old Testaments told in similar form and they were in many ways similar and had several things in common. In both chronicles the gods believed that the world obtained to much violence, God said to noah that "The end of all flesh has come before Me, for the earth is filled with violence through them; and behold, I will destroy them with the earth.” so in both stories the gods decided to flood the world and rid it of all man kind…

The literary aspect of interpretation plays a crucial role in shaping the biblical narrative, but it is overlooked and almost nonexistent. • Conventional biblical scholarship is limited. o Example: the story of Judah and Tamar. At first glance, this story seems to be rudely inserted in the middle of the drama of Joseph. Upon further inspection, the use of a single word (“recognize” in this case) ties chapters 37 and 38 of Genesis together – something that is missed without considering literary…

Within the Old Testament lies the book of Psalms, a collection of 150 song-like passages which communicate the truths about God to the intended audience. At the time, this was directed at the Jewish people and these Psalms were used as prayers to worship God in their temples. The particular psalm that will be focused on throughout this response is Psalm 23. With the use of different literary techniques, the audience is able to fully interpret what is being said during this passage and helps…

Satan is the one who’s intent is to punish and cause people to blame God. I believe God’s severe punishment will occur during the Rapture. I do not believe that God punishes a group of people for the sins of a nation. This was an occurrence in the Old Testament, but today we are under a new covenant. Jesus Christ died so that we can be saved. He will punish the individuals for their own transgressions. Punishment is not the reason behind a natural disaster. Instead, God uses tragedies to reveal…

Will there be people in this old world that will show kindness to your children for their father’s sake, simply because he was a good man? The second story is found in Mark chapter nine, immediately following the transfiguration. At the foot of the mountain, a father waited with…

100 BC to 68 AD. The discovered writings are not original manuscripts, but copies produced by scribes. They are determined to be a thousand years older than the oldest attested traditional Hebrew text of the Torah, which make up the basis of the Old Testament translated into English.  The first scrolls were discovered in 1947 in a cave on the northwest shore of the Dead Sea, in Jordan.  They were encountered by a Bedouin shepherd, who in later years varied his story of the discovery details.…