Hebrew's Influence On The Modern World

The home is central to Judaism as it is the setting in which a husband

Hebrew and Babylonian are two different versions of hot the earth was created. Even though there are perspective of how the world was created they do have some similarities. The broad point of the two views intertwine with each other because they are more the same than different.

The Hittite, Jewish, Phoenician, Persian, and Assyrians nations are all very important nations within Mesopotamia. They share similar attributes but differ at the same time.

Just like any other civilization, the Israelites had multiple social classes. At the foundation of the civilization was the working class. This was made up of the farmers and artisans who labored all day and produced the items that were often traded throughout the kingdom. The next tier was the military and royal court. Anyone that served in the military was well respected by people of all classes. The royal court consisted of any government officials, scribes, and the king’s royal cupbearer. Scribes were the secretaries and typically involved in judicial and financial affairs. The royal cupbearer was tasked with filling the king’s goblet with wine and serving it to him. Second to the top of the social classes were the priests. Similar to Ancient Egypt with the gods, priests were believed to have direct contact with the god the Israelites worshiped: Yahweh. Because of this connection, priests were considered to be very sacred to the Israelites. At the top of the social pyramid was the king. The king of the Israelites ruled over the kingdom, defended it, but also “rules on behalf of Yahweh, the Israelite god” .

The sphere dealing with the home can be taxing at times. The relationship here is much easier when everyone in the home are Christians. However, if dad is a Christian and mom is not, or vice versa, or perhaps a child or children surrender their lives to the calling of Jesus, and mom and dad have not, family relationships and harmony in the home can become much more difficult. Paul writes about how the relationships in the home should be. He talks about how each person should deal with the other. The book of Genesis tells us the story of Noah and how he was a successful father and husband. He was able to reach his entire family for God. It was his family that was saved

Hierarchy and Authority (pg 17): In Europe, kings and princes owned vast tracts of land, men only saw high class and low class no in between. The man was the head of the house hold, his power was encouraging by the Christian Church.

Since the time the Hebrew people settled in the land that God had given them, they have made an impact on the world. A tiny people that started with a mighty call from God, the Hebrew civilization has had a lasting influence on Western Civilization. When God called Abram, he told him, “…all the peoples of the earth will be blessed through you” (Gen 12:3 [New International Version]). Looking back, it is plain to see the truth that God was speaking. Although other civilizations, such as the Sumerian’s and the Egyptian’s, had earlier starts and were larger, they played a smaller part in influencing Western Civilization than the Hebrew civilization.

The political hierarchy that existed in the ancient city of Uruk began with the priests of temples having all the power over the people because they could communicate directly to the unpredictable gods. Any priest that can lead rituals that placated gods were useful individuals. However, 1000 years later, social order shifted to men and not gods. Tribal chiefs became kings and took on religious roles. As a result, kings had the highest political power and second were priests.

When most people hear the word “family” they usually picture the first definition that appears in the Merriam-Webster Dictionary: “a group of individuals living under one roof”. However, a family can also be defined as “a group of persons of common ancestry”. Most importantly, family is about the relationships that a group of individuals has with one another, whether they are related by blood or not. The creation story found in Greek culture portrays a completely different family dynamic than the one shown in Genesis. While reading the creation story in Genesis 2:4-25 and the myths from Greek culture, the differences in the relationships between the gods, the humans and each other, give insight into the family

The Hebrews and Assyrians had major influences on the history of western civilization. They were both Semitic- speaking people who were involved in united kingdoms. The history of the Hebrews is widely recognized with religion and their traditions which were included in the Hebrew Bible, but from a Christian standpoint, their history could be more recognized in the Old Testament. Describing themselves originally as nomads organized into clans, the Hebrews’ tradition states that they were descendants of the patriarch Abraham, who had migrated from Mesopotamia to the land of Canaan, where they became identified as the “Children of Israel” (Spielvogel p. 33).In comparison to the Hebrews, the Assyrians were also very religious. “What gave identity to the Assyrians themselves was their language…”(Spielvogel p. 42).

In our modern world we have so many impacts from past civilizations that help make the world as it is today. We can trace these impacts all the way back to the Egyptian and Mesopotamian cultures for example. Both civilizations appeared at approximately at the same time period, between 3000 and 3500bc. Many people argue that the Egyptians had so much influence on the modern world, but if you read up on the Mesopotamian civilization it really seems to be ultimately the civilization to have it all and to provide the most impact on the modern world. While both civilizations had many things in common i.e. - government, religion, art, technology etc., the Mesopotamians seemed to have developed their civilization into a more in-depth and multi-faceted complex society.

The passage Hebrews 10:32-34 exemplifies the troubling reality of the Christian audience of Hebrews who live in a world that does not “. . . yet see everything in subjection to Christ” (Hebrews 2:8b), or find Christ in control of everything as they believed (Hebrews 2:8). Instead, they live in a world that rejects them, mistreats them, and ridicules them. They are “people of faith who were not vindicated in this life and for whom faith did not mean they escaped suffering and death” (Longman and Garland 51). Does this mean that faith in Christ sometimes fails those in the midst of suffering? Or did Christ fail the audience of Hebrews because they did not see a reality of him completely in control as the author of Hebrews claimed in Hebrews 1? By no means! Faith, as shown in The Letter to the Hebrews, provides those suffering, the endurance to continue “. . . looking to Jesus, the founder and perfecter of our faith. . . “(Hebrews 12:2a), that they may reach the perfection that Jesus

Generally, in ancient Israel, full wives and concubines, in early puberty around eleven and twelve, conceived and produced children with their husbands for agricultural needs for the survival of their families. Married women received protection during the polygamy practice, a practice of husbands possessing more than one wife; whereas, women living alone, were unprotected members of society. In ancient Israel, two types of wives existed, the full wives and the concubines. Future husbands or their families purchased wives from the father of landowners; this purchase, known as a “bride price”, displayed

Governmental systems from antiquity through modern eras seem to display the progression of cultural maturity and regression. An aristocrat could “bequeath” their social status to descendants. Over several generations, the masses may solicit the elite for input on a social challenge, perhaps assuming that their “success” – which could be nothing more than descended imagery, conveys intellectual prowess. Again, over generations, the aristocratic families become monarchies, whereas power and influence are incumbent with birth and usually protected by legislative means derived through their ancestral

God made his heart concerning marriage and the family unit clear in the book of Genesis as it states that, “But from the beginning of creation, ‘God made them male and female.’ ‘Therefore a man shall leave his father and mother and hold fast to his wife, and the two shall become one flesh.’ So they are no longer two but one flesh. What therefore God has joined together let not man separate.’’(KJV)