Yahweh

The essay that Hendel writes is how Yahweh became the sole God of Israel. Through the essay Hendel describes other Gods of the Israelite religion, not only Yahweh. These beings were servants under Yahweh fighting holy wars and seen as stars battling from heaven. For example, Hendel shows that Joshua meets the leader of Gods army. "but as the commander of the army of the…

one that pre-dates Christianity. The history of Judaism is traced as far back as Abraham. The Hebrew Bible tells us that, Yahweh and Abraham had made covenant. In the covenant Yahweh promises Abraham land known as Canaan, the promise land, and an abundance of descendants. The descendants later become to be known as the children of Israel after Jacob, Abraham’s grandson that Yahweh renames as Israel. The people of Israel reside in Canaan until famine strikes the land forcing them to abandon in…

sides I am convinced that the God of the Bible is not the same God of the Koran. People have worshipped gods since human existence began, but to say that Allah is the same God as Yahweh Elohim of the Bible is just a false statement; There is no way they can be the same God due to the violence in the Bible and the Koran, Yahweh and Allah swearing by different things, Allah being a deceiver, and the Korans belief on the holy trinity. First, let’s compare the…

general sense of the tenor as infidelity; and infidelity equivalent to that of an adulterous wife has been committed. Hosea’s use of the sign-act actually allows the infidelity of the nation to be doubly signified: Hosea depicts Israel’s relationship to Yahweh using both his symbolic action and his symbolic language (metaphor), rather than depending on the use of metaphor alone. This combination of symbolic action with metaphoric speech strengthens the impact of Hosea’s prophecy while increasing…

compelling argument can be put forward that every other major conception about God to be found in the Pentateuch has its rootage in this idea.” In Exodus 3:5 Yahweh calls the ground holy, this is the first time holy is used since the creation narrative in Genesis 2:3 when God blessed the Sabbath and made it holy. The holiness of Yahweh is transcendent of all things in creation, because he is utterly and completely different from all things in creation. His holiness and purity has the ability…

supernatural can also affect the mind, as in the case of Saul in 1 Samuel 16:15 and chapter 23, and deceive like one of Yahweh’s council members did to the prophets in 1 Kings 22:22-33. In all of these occasions, the spirits were still controlled by Yahweh. Worshipping powerful God that also controls evil spirits is troublesome for some people, for obvious reason. To solve this doctrinal issue, people reinterpreted the story of creation in Genesis. Genesis 1:27 says, “Man and woman he created…

The Code of Hammurabi is the first complete written and well-organized code of law for the Babylonians of ancient Mesopotamia. The total code consists of 282 laws and they are on the stone stele with other various clay tablets. The code is written by King Hammurabi who came to power around 1792 BC. Using the purpose of King Hammurabi’s uniting Mesopotamian cultures he called the laws were from the gods in a dream. Additionally, he used them to deterrent, burning, whipping, and death. The goal…

the Israelites’ disobedience of Yahweh. The people had “sinned against the Lord their God” by “[worshipping] other gods and [walking] in the customs of the nations whom the Lord drove out before [them]” (2 Kings 17:7-8). In addition, they built high places for themselves in all of their cities. By doing these “wicked things, provoking the Lord to anger”, the Israelites were showing their blatant disregard of Yahweh’s commands. (2 Kings 17:11b). Even though Yahweh had warned Israel to turn from…

In the center, the painting depicts the moment when a seraph purifies Isaiah’s lips with live coal. In the Bible, Isaiah focuses on his “unclean lips” from speaking sins in the past and how those sins would make it impossible to speak the word of Yahweh. To make it so that he could receive the gift of utterance, the seraph purified his lips (Armstrong 42). This gave Isaiah the ability to purely convey the words he will be asked to speak and if it had not happened, it is quite possible that…

its meaning, and how it should be lived. One of the main claims can be summarized by saying that “the dust returns to the earth as it was, and the breath returns to God who gave it” (Ecclesiastes 12.7). The author expresses through this verse that Yahweh is in control of all circumstances of life for every individual; It can be seen as a cycle as He has the power to both give and take life. This idea connects readers to the bigger idea that “whatever God does endures forever; nothing can be…