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    Apo In Ancient Greek

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    cities around the lake of Galilee Bethsaida were not well known to most authors outside Palestine. Verse 45 - 46 the verb find or discover in classical Greek means heurisko have “range of meaning in the New Testament” as well as the same in the Septuagint one can accidentally find things or encounter heurissko has a theological significance in (John 1:41). “We have found the Messiah” (John 1:45). This human finding is matched by God’s free giving.” As a result, the “use of erchomai and…

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    In Using New Testament Greek in Ministry by David Alan Black, in Chapter two he recommends books useful for the study of New Testament Greek and he provides annotations for a list of books as a guide in understanding the books. For you to effectively pull out the contextual meaning of scripture, you must have the right resources. “What tools are to mechanics, books are to preachers; just as no mechanic can do an effective job without adequate tools to perform precision work, so no pastor can…

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    Diasporic Homelands

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    The Greek term “diasporic”, as it was well- known, was a derivation from the Greek composite verb “dia-’’ and infinitive “speriein”, meaning “to scatter’’ or “to spread” or “to disperse” diasporas and home lands are produced and constructed through narrative. The relationship between diasporic and home lands helps us understand “Not only how Diasporas regard themselves, but how homelands come to be created and defined.” The relationship between home lands and diasporic has always been an area…

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    Following the Exodus from Egypt the Israelites wandered the Sinai wilderness for forty years. Not sure of their future they began worshipping the Canaanite Pantheon instead of God and only upon threats from Moses did they stop their worshipping the pagan deities. Substantial amount of evidence from various archaeological excavations throughout the Levant confirm that the Israelites and the Canaanites believed in the same Father-God named El. The Kingdom of Israel, ruled by Jeroboam I, began a…

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    The Israelites began with Abraham who believed in the worship of just one god leaves his home in the city of Ur and travels to Canaan in order to create a nation that worships one god. The ancestors of Abraham because of a famine in Canaan move to Egypt and eventually begin to worship the gods and goddesses of Egypt such as Hathor, Isis, Seth, and Ra along with others. Moses, who born an Israelite then abandoned while an infant then rescued and raised as Egyptian royalty, leaves Egypt and…

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    Hermeneutics In Religion

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    Arguably one of the most integral aspects of a religion is its scriptural text. It assumes the role as an identifier to the followers of that particular practice as well as provides a sort of guide book of traditions and values. The Abrahamic religions of Judaism, Christianity, and Islam find their own respective ‘guide books’ in the form of the Tanakh, the Bible, and the Qur’an. Although these three scriptural canons share the similar belief of dedicating oneself to one true God (names may…

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    the development and rise of kingship in Israel. In the bible, Samuel plays a critical role because he assists in bringing together the period of the Judges and the monarchy as he guides Israel to kingship. The Greek translation of the book, the Septuagint, was the first version to divide the Books of Samuel into two different parts. We can’t completely confirm who wrote the Books of Samuel; however, it is highly possible that they were compiled from the writings of the prophets Samuel, Gad, and…

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    second synagogue located just outside of Chorazin exhibits a carving of the Greek monster, Medusa on a column, as well as many smaller carvings of Cupid, the god of love. Finally, one of the bases of Jewish-Hellenistic literature was the Septuagint. The Septuagint was the Greek translation of the Jewish Bible, and made Jewish culture accessible to more Hellenized Jews, who did not speak the biblical language of Hebrew. The ability of the Jews to successfully adopt Hellenistic culture and norms,…

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    The second foundational difference between the two parables is the audience for whom they were written. Mark 12:1-12 was written for the early Christian church. It, along with the rest of the gospel, proclaims the gospel of Christ and teaches that the old ways of redemption are no longer; Jesus, the son, and the church body are the means of reaching God. In Mark 12:1-12 the tenants are unable to give the fruit directly to God. The fruit must be delivered by servants and when the servants are…

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    Whereas the Old Testament has mentioned justification in Hebrew, where 70 Greek translators translated it into a Greek compilation that is known as the Septuagint, the New Testament used justification in the Greek, and it used the same word that the Greek translators used in the Septuagint. According to J. I. Packer, justification’s definition, both in the Greek and the Hebrew, is “to pronounce, accept, and treat as just, i.e., as, on the one hand, not penalty liable…

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