Biblical Autobiography

The history of man may have started with Adam and Eve, but the history of Israel began with Abram, which happens to be the person this paper is written about. We will soon be looking at Genesis 14, and the story of Abram saving Lot and being blessed by Melchizedek. But first we need to establish a background to provide a better understanding of the chapter.

It started off slow and by slow I mean really slow. My father was a deacon and my mother was the Sunday school teacher for the kids and adults, My Spirituality was something I don’t think much about as a kid. I was more in to Power Ranger and Ninja Turtle that anything else. My mom and dad tried to make god a part of my life but it don’t work. I was just a little kid and all I want was to play.

An example of how understanding the historical-cultural context can shed significant light on the meaning of a specific biblical text

The three main geographic areas that are central to Old Testament story-line are Mesopotamia, Israel and Egypt. Within this part of the chapter, Richter lays out the places that match up with the time and people, which then allows the reader to start placing the information onto “shelves”.

1. Compare the narratives of Israel’s wilderness sojourn in Numbers with the summary presentations in Psalms 78 and 106.

In November of 2012, I got sick. For three days my mother kept me out of school, for a mild fever. I don 't even remember feeling ill; it was simply three days off for fun. After the fever broke, I went back to school as normal. All I remember next is my head never stopped aching. Day or night, school or home, medicine or no medicine. Nothing ever made me better. It is now October of 2017, five years, and I can 't tell you the last day I remember my head not aching.

I was born in Newark Ohio, with my twin brother Christian. My step sister Gia was four years old when I was born, and my step brother Cole was eight years older than me. My dad worked at Ricord car dealership, and my mom did too. A few weeks after my brother and I were born she stopped working and stayed at home. When I was three my family moved to licking valley. My mom started helping out at the church so my family got a babysitter named Lisa. My earliest memory I have is playing outside with my brother Christian while Lisa was watching us. At first, it was hard not having my mom with us all of the time but we got used to it. On Sundays my family would all go to church together after church was over we would have family dinner and play games.

Three characteristics formulated the identity and then community of God’s people, known as Israelites, throughout the Hebrew Bible. Although not a complete picture, these three ideas heavily influenced Israelite distinctiveness both in how the Ancient Near East interacted with them and how they lived together. Israelite identity wrapped itself in “chosen-ness” of God. God’s individual interactions with Abraham & Sarah, Isaac & Rebekah, and Jacob birthed the original knowledge of being chosen. God chose them, they worshipped only God, they did what God said, and God protected them.

Let us reflect on the journey of the past eight weeks; we have walked through the background, as well as the context of the passage, developed a verse-by-verse commentary, viewed the similarities, as well as the differences between the original audience and the

What are some examples of the social distance needed to travel between the people of the ancient Mediterranean and us, if we are to better understand the Hebrew Scriptures and the New Testament Gospels?

Using contemporary studies as the foundation of his research John Walton reviews the ancient and Near Eastern and Israelite cognitive context. He provides guidance for students and general public to have a wider understanding and expand their knowledge of today’s culture, and historical culture interacts with the ancient world culture. In doing so, he tries to balance all audiences though examining artifacts to assist the individual’s understanding through these artifacts about both the historical prospective and culture and the parallel with the Bible.

Scripture, Isaiah 18:2, “which sends envoys by the sea, even in papyrus vessels on the surface of the waters. Go, swiftly messengers, to a nation, tall and smooth. To a people feared far and wide, A powerful and oppressive nation, whose land the rivers divide”, which is a interpreting the figuration of a ship. His typological significance of vital in every aspect of a ship’s structure. The interpretation which Hippolytus imposes on in this text shows how early biblical interpretation often debated extensively from the plain sense of the text itself. Hippolytus writes typological exegesis involved the forging of links between person, events, or objects mentioned in the Old Testament and corresponding persons, events, doctrines in the New Testament.

Most religions at the time had gods who asked for sacrifices and large temples built in their honor and fought amongst each other like humans. Our God was not one of those gods, asking mainly for proper moral behavior. There may have been no further reason to behave humanely than to please your God, and avoid the punishments dealt by him such as tsaraat. Still, for the time this was a radical improvement. The Jews were one of, if not, the first people to have a God that looked for the goodness in people instead of the goodness of their sacrifices or gifts to the Lord or whatever gods and/or goddesses they worshipped. My Torah portion shows this legacy of Judaism.

Have you ever really thought and pondered if there was a higher up power? Let me start off by saying I

The book of Luke speak of the woman who was a sinner that invited herself to dinner and stood at Jesus’ feet behind him weeping and washed his feet with tears and dry them with her hair. She knew she did not belong but His love propelled her. I too am that woman, drawn by sin and to sin. I have depreciated in value throughout the years. Seeking love in the wrong places and coming up empty each time but God did not stop loving me even though I refused to love Him. We give a lot of credence to man for what God has done, like when my son was born weighing 2 Lbs. 4 oz.’s and his own grand mother told me to leave him in the hospital because he won’t live and God saw it fit to spare his life. Or when the doctors