Robert Moses

In this video a team attempts to rebuild the flood boat of Noah, utilizing inscriptions from ancient clay tablets. From the book of genius of the bible, God asked Noah to build a boat. It is stated that this was a platform for ultimate disasters. But they questioned where did the idea come from, Based on antique tablet, far older than the bible it retailing a story far different than that of Noah’s. The idea is that of a basket boat, to recreate this vessel they travelled to marsh lands of…

mountains and the hills and other inanimate objects as witnesses due to their roles as witnesses to the covenant, the mountains have been associated before in the Old Testament as "closer" to God due to the proximity to heaven, such as Mount Sinai where Moses received the gift of the Ten Commandments from God and the imagery in the New Testament when Jesus delivers the Beatitudes on the Mount. Ezekiel 36 also makes references to the use of mountains as witnesses or listeners, when the "Son of…

both Moses and Noah. The Lord spoke to and influenced Moses and Noah, which changed how they saw themselves as individuals and how they contributed to their society. This was expressed in the Bible, and has been retold numerous times, most recently in movies such as The Ten Commandments, Prince of Egypt, Noah and Exodus: Gods and Kings. When God came to Moses, Moses initially resisted the role as leader. With the 10 plagues he brought upon Egypt, God showed Moses his power he had and Moses…

12) Sending a great man into a famine filled country seems wrong. I know that he has this glorious plan for later. I am just bothered that he had to pretend his wife was his sister, not ok. You sent this man here to do all these great things and mean come on. 13) There was plagues to get rid of a bad Pharaoh? Than boom Abram is rich as can be. Just raise your eyes and look this is all yours and your babies. 14) Something that was confusing in the bible was when 20 names of kings are listed. I…

When reading books from the Old Testaments it is easy to want to skip over them. They are full of turmoil and judgement. But when taking a closer look there are some major themes that emerge. Even today these themes are noticeable. We see the themes of Idolatry, social injustices, and religious ritualism. It is easy to assume that these are all issues from the bible times only, but they are very present in today’s society. Israel struggled to worship God, if they couldn't see him how…

The three periods of Moses’s life were as follows, Moses, born a son of a Hebrew slave rescued by Pharaoh’s daughter and later adopted by her. Moses, became a prince in Pharaoh’s palace, he later escaped to the desert of Midian as a result of killing an Egyptian. Moses married, became a shepherd and disconnected from his home and family in Egypt. While Moses tended the flock God called Moses from a burning bush and commissioned him to lead the people of Israel out of bondage. In Exodus 3:2…

He believes these sections contain multiple redaction and expansions the earliest of which dates to the second commissioning of Moses. There are so few post priestly insertions including the stuff of God motive and the third commissioning. Since these are old work into the Midianite narrative Jeon defines Midianite narrative as a “Proto Exodus narrative” (292). Jeon looks at Exodus…

Joseph, Moses, Joshua, David, and Solomon all in one chapter. He start with Abraham the how God promised him with land, and his descendants would possess that land even though at the time Abraham didn’t. They would be enslaved for 400 years but afterward they would worship Him. He gave Abraham the covenant of circumcision. Isaac was born. Isaac had Jacob who became the father of the twelve patriarchs. He retells the story of Joseph, how these same patriarchs…

EPHRAIM” The Egyptian children of Joseph were given two tribes among the children of Israel, and their tribes were known to be the tribe of Manasseh and Ephraim (Genesis 13:8, 11). These tribes became leaders among the Hebrews and Jewish communities. Moses was able to select two people from each tribe of the Egyptian sons of Joseph to spy the land of Canaan (Numbers 13:1-2,8,11,16). Manasseh was given his father's place, he took over the tribe of Joseph which was among the twelve tribes of…

fifth-century settings. These four settings including the traditional view on Moses are all possible settings for the Pentateuch writing depending on the topic viewed. Although it is difficult to defend one setting, the setting of the twelfth-century and the traditional view are more plausible than the other settings. The traditional and the twelfth-century settings are possible setting as they are written from personal accounts. Both Moses and Joshua lived in the time of the Pentateuch;…