A Different Life in Bethlehem

the Australians lived on a small food supply of biscuits, bully beef, chocolate, tea and sugar, tinned fruit, dried potatoes, sausages, vegetables, jam, butter and

The World in First-Century Palestine was similar and different in many ways to the present. The Jews were in their Holy Land and proud to be the chosen people of God. The Roman Empire occupied their land during the first century. First, Romans did not threaten their way of life. Later on with higher taxes and greater oppression all changed. This led to political backstabbing, religious uprising and insurgency. More than a million people died, mostly Jews. Back in that time religion guided the chosen people’s lives more so than today. Jewish people had very important rituals. The term we know as “unclean” had a different meaning in those times. Women did not have the same rights and freedoms that we have today. Crucifixion was the extremist penalty to all the Jews in the Holy Land. Rituals, “Unclean”, and crucifixion was part of normal everyday life in Palestine in the First Century.

It is possible to write on the life of Jesus from the information gathered from the bible. I will be dividing my essay into three parts. In the first part of the paper, I will talk about the nature of the gospels, John’s views vs. the Synoptic, discuss if the authors of the gospels are eyewitnesses and how they used written sources. Also I will talk about the Q source. Then I will elaborate on the topic of how Matthew and Luke were similar. Then I will continue on by discussing how the Old Testament uses Moses, Samuel and Elijah to interpret Jesus, and finally whether or not the Sermon on the Mount happened. In the second part of my paper, I will talk about Jesus’s birth and childhood, his miracles, his resurrection, and what Jesus did to cure people, spirits and how they are interpreted to the prophet, magician and the mad man compared to Saul and Elijah. The final part of the paper I will talk about what Jesus talked about as regards to the Kingdom of God vs. the Kingdom of the Romans and what he intended by speaking of the end of the world. I will also speak of the reasons behind the Romans executing him. My sources for this paper will be the New Jerusalem Bible Readers edition as my primary source and lecture notes from Professor Trumbach.

Early people were hunter-gatherers. They ate large and small birds, fish, mice, grasshoppers, crabs, snails, mollusks, fruit, nuts, wild cereals, vegetables, fungi, and other plants.

Other foods such as, wild grapes, jack rabbits, wood rats, yucca fruit, wild potatoes, juniper, berries and mountain sheep were eaten all the time.

Charles Dickens’ A Christmas Carol presents to the reader the transformation of an egotistic, miserable man, named Ebenezer Scrooge, to a compassionate and merrier elderly who finds the true perception of Christmas. Good afternoon, my name is Hayley Harris-Organ; I am here before you to address the importance of studying the humorous yet stern approach to Scrooge’s plight in the novella A Christmas Carol. This short novel acknowledges the threat of holding a selfish life. The author makes a clear reference to greed, cost on fate and redemption in the text.

The people were eating off horses and other beasts as long as they persisted. They made due off eating dogs, cats, rats, mice, shoes, and other leather they could find. Some settlers started digging up dead corpses to feed off of. They would lick up blood from the weak.

A Christmas Carol by Charles Dickens is a story about a man who is stingy, rude and solitary. His name is Scrooge, and he gets taught many lessons. Scrooge comes out a changed man who is optimistic and happy. The lessons he gets taught is not only for him but also for Dickens' readers. Throughout this text, there many situations where usual readers can relate to. In other parts of the text, there are moments that are rare and have a massive impact on Scrooge's life. A Christmas Carol's messages are for the readers because Scrooge is a metaphor for the wrongdoings in life, these lessons could happen to anyone and because the book was created so that no one should go through the experiences that

Meat: beef, mutton, lamb, veal, kid, port, coney, pig, venison, fish (sometimes salted--pike, salmon, haddock, gurnard, tench, sturgeon, conger-eels, carp, lampreys, chines of salmon, perch, white herring, shrimp, pilchards, mackerel, oysters), sausage, eggs, sheep's feet, meat pies. Due to lack of refrigeration, techniques for preparing spoiled meat--vinegar,

Jews went in proper living conditions. The Jews sealed in a cart and had to suffer from intense heat in the summer and freezing temperatures In the winter. They were not provided food or water

Today, I went on a guided tour of the Lloyd Street Synagogue. This synagogue was the first synagogue built in Maryland by the Hebrews in 1845. It is also, the third-oldest synagogue remaining in the country. The Greek Revival style building was designed by architect Robert Cray Long, Jr. In 1861, due the Synagogue had to be expanded by architect William H. Resin due to the growing number of members needing additional space. The original interior and exterior décor was not affected. The building is pink in color. The outside did not have any visible Jewish symbols so the building did not appear as a Jewish structure and was less distinctive. The star of David, the ten commandments, nor Hebrew saying adorned the exterior of the building as it does today.

I love food, Don’t you? Ancient Pompeii’s common foods include cheeses, poppy, beans, lentils, figs, grapes, plums, olives, nuts, grains and breads, eggs, fish, chicken, ham and other meats. With many bakeries in Pompeii, bread was an available

The Elizabethans, like us, had three main meals a day: breakfast, dinner, and supper. Breakfast was eaten, usually between 6-7am, dinner at midday, and supper between 5-8pm. The kinds of food eaten depended very much on wealth and status. Poor people, had humble and unvaried diets, the rich ate well. They enjoyed all kinds of meat, including beef, pork, lamb, mutton, bacon, veal, deer, fancy fowl, swan, and goose. Their diet also included freshwater and sea fish,salmon, trout, eel, pike,sturgeon, crabs, lobsters, oysters, cockles and mussels. For the poor, they would eat bread with butter, cheese, eggs, and pottage. Poor people could not afford red meat, like beef or pork, so they eat white meat, like chicken, rabbit or hare, and birds they.

Here is a story of an experience that changed my perspective on how fortunate I am. In eighth grade, my class was informed that we were going on a class trip. We would be going to certain places that help people, like homeless shelters, and we would do whatever they needed us to do that day. I had the choice to sign up where I wanted to go and I chose the Covenant House. The Covenant House what a place that helped and sheltered homeless teenagers. Right when I heard about it, I knew I wanted to go there because the people there were about the same age as me.

“The grandeur of the ancient city is evident in the remains uncovered by archaeologists, including the ruins of the Artemision, the civic agora, the temple of Domitian, gymnasiums, public baths, a theater with seating for 24,000, a library, and the commercial agora, as well as several streets and private residences” (Holman, np). This was a big city, full of culture, and full of ungodly people and activities. Among the many religious groups in the city, there were many Jews there who were brought the gospel right after Pentecost (Orr, np). Because of the pluralism of religions in the city, new Christians didn’t know exactly what to believe or how to worship. On top of this, the city was constantly bombarded with false teachers trying to tell people that salvation came from works, not faith (MacArthur, np).