Temple in Jerusalem

culture. The Israelites were a henotheistic culture from the Exodus of the people from Egypt and gradually changed over their history and settlement in the land of Canaan to become a monotheistic nation at the time of the destruction of the Second Temple in 586 B.C.E. During this time as well as the exile of the Jews, the Pentateuch was written as four documents. This is known as documentary hypothesis which is considered the basis of all biblical scholarship and was first suggested by Julius…

is interpreted according to its genre. Nehemiah is an example of literary work that is genre narrative. The Narrator, Nehemiah is also the author he tells the story, laced in historical events and dates about how he planned to rebuild the wall, the Temple and how worship and the principles were restored. The characters mention in the text were documented…

A king who stayed in his fortress! The roar of the enemy is building to a crescendo. They are so vast that when you look out from the city walls it is difficult to see where they end and the countryside begins. That countryside now battered and bruised by the marching of thousands of feet. Those same feet shuffle impatiently adding to the noise of swords being sharpened and horses neighing, the battle calls of men itching for the encounter to begin. They know this fight will be easily won.…

that entire night, and a man called Eutychus fell asleep and fell from the window and died. Paul threw himself on the body and brought him back to life. Paul then sailed to Jerusalem, wanting to reach there before the Pentecost. Paul tells the elders of the Ephesus church that he didn’t know what would happen to him in jerusalem, but he only wanted to finish the task that God had given him: to preach and testify God’s grace. He tells them to be on their guard and reminded them to help the weak…

There are a significant amount of differences between John’s Gospel and the Synoptics. The Synoptics consist of the Gospels Matthew, Mark, and Luke. All three Gospels have a large narrative approach. They include geographical settings, extensive numbers of characters, and a considerable amount of dialogue. They also capture Jesus as teaching generally through parables and short sequences of proclamation. John’s Gospel, however, is much more drawn out and inner-directed. John’s Gospel clarifies…

you would find many parables within the teaching. John refers to the “word” as logos meaning the preexistent Christ. The Synoptic Gospels are similar in text unlike the Book of John. The geography in the Book of John focuses on Jesus’s visit to Jerusalem to and from, whereas the Synoptic Gospels are more focused in on Jesus’s ministry done in Galilee. Another major difference would be the chronology. The Book John believes that Jesus ministry lasted for three years but, the Synoptic Gospels…

but the archaeologists claim that it was a small tribal kingdom (Exod. 3:2—22, 12:31-36). The argument of Finkelstein and Silberman suffer about Jerusalem suffer this shortcoming of archaeology. They fail to acknowledge the magnitude of Jerusalem which was the capital of an empire by referring it to a cow town (Finkelstein and Silberman 78). Jerusalem had its magnitude not acknowledged, and this was partly due to the fact Israel had been defeated by Hazael. This is evident in the Tel Dan…

Christianity did not just come out of nowhere, it developed throughout hundreds of years. Thanks to the combined efforts Paul, James, Peter, Jesus’s followers, and all of the Jews and Gentiles, this religion has been formed from the teachings of Jesus Christ. He only wanted to reform the religion of Judaism, but throughout several disputes, Christianity became its very own religion. Throughout the life of Jesus Christ, he was very much human just like us. Jesus, just as we were born, was born…

implies. In its last wording it seems that it was rebuilt around the three pascuas that speak of the public life of Jesus. There is an important element there to understand the thought of John. He finished writing when it was 20 years since Jerusalem and the temple were destroyed by the…

conflicts between the tribes that were caused by them being separated. Israel was the first ever united kingdom. King Saul’s reign was unsuccessful, but then soon came King David. Jerusalem was united under King David. He united all tribes of Israel under complete monarchy. David’s son had a son named Solomon. He built a giant temple for the Hebrew’s God, Yahweh, and many beautiful palaces. Israel was split in two after Solomon’s death, and now had a northern kingdom and a southern kingdom. The…