Poem Analysis: A Separate Peace

In October the Amis and Strong families met and the Strongs were outnumbered two to

Notably, the loss of identity is first featured at the mention of the unnamed children. The mention of the unnamed children often mentioned in the passage is very poignant

He mentions that his own tribe practiced animal sacrifice and circumcision(Equiano 19). This alludes the ancient Hebrews who practiced animal sacrifice and circumcision. By mentioning this, Equiano suggests that his tribe is one of the lost tribes of Israel. The inclusion of this possibility humanizes and legitimises Equiano’s people to combat the notion that Africans are animalist savages. A true Christian would never dare call any of the twelve tribes undomesticated barbarians or discredit their ideas based on their race or ethnicity. This idea also illustrates Equiano’s knowledge of the

There are some documents that speak to all people. The people had lots of harsh times during the time of the

To understand the passages, we should examine the sentences more closely. “And he told them, “Thus says the Lord, the God of Israel: Put your sword on your hip, every one of you! Now go up and down the camp, from gate to gate, and slay your own kinsmen, your friends, and neighbors!” This passage says that God told the people to kill their friends, neighbors, and their own family members. In addition, a footnote says, “Slay you kinsmen: those who were especially

I have heard them crying out because of their slave drivers, and I am concerned about their suffering. So I have come down to rescue them from the hand of the Egyptians and to bring them up out of that land into a good and spacious land, a land flowing with milk and honey—the home of the Canaanites, Hittites, Amorites, Perizzites, Hivites and Jebusites. And now the cry of the Israelites has reached me, and I have seen the way the Egyptians are oppressing them. So now, go. I am sending you to Pharaoh to bring my people the Israelites out of Egypt.” But Moses said to God, “Who am I that I should go to Pharaoh and bring the Israelites out of Egypt?” And God said, “I will be with you. And this will be the sign to you that it is I who have sent you: When you have brought the people out of Egypt, you will worship God on this mountain.” Moses said to God, “Suppose I go to the Israelites and say to them, ‘The God of your fathers has sent me to you,’ and they ask me, ‘What is his name?’ Then what shall I tell them?” God said to Moses, “I am who I am. This is what you are to say to the Israelites: ‘I am has sent me to you.’” God also said to Moses, “Say to the Israelites, ‘The Lord, the God of your fathers—the God of Abraham, the God of Isaac and the God of Jacob—has sent me to you.’ “This is my name forever, the name you shall call me from generation to generation. “Go, assemble the elders of Israel and say to

fighting men is assemble there.” They wanted their enemies to think that there was more of them.

Mitchell continued his report by describing the character of the men who arrived in the city, many of whom had no record of ever being in the military, while others did not serve during World War I. According to Mitchell during the two-month siege a total 362 men were arrested. Of the 362 men, 341 of them were arrested prior to the riot. The police were unable to fingerprint all of the men. However, Mitchell reported of the 51 men had been finger printed one-third of them did not serve during the World War. Of the additional personal information obtained prior to June 12, 1932, one-fourth or 877 of the 3,656 men who signed the “muster rolls” had no military service record. However, Mitchell reported that a number of the marchers had criminal records. Some of their offences included sexual assault, larceny, forgery, robbery, and others earned disorderly conduct discharge papers

Explain: This relates to an earlier passage about the hunger the soldiers have for power. One could compare the soldiers behavior to a child with non-strict parents. The child will act up and do bad things because he know he can get away with it. This is exactly how the soldiers are acting. They know there isn’t a large amount of authority that would enforce discipline upon them for their actions. This lead to the beat down of

Itamar was the youngest son of Aaron the High Priest, who ministered the Jewish People in the Tabernacle in the Sinai wilderness. Mentioned twelve

army, only the tribes of Juda and Benjamin remained, because Juda was a much larger tribe than

John H. Walton’s Ancient Near Eastern Thought and the Old Testament: Introducing the Conceptual World of the Hebrew Bible is broken up into fourteen chapters. Those fourteen chapters are each part of one of five sections. This book also contains over twenty historical images. Before the introduction, the author gives readers a full appendix of all images used in this published work. The author then gives his acknowledgements followed by a list of abbreviations.

Studying the religion of the Ancient Israelite People must be done in a careful manner. The ways in which biblical scholars frame significant ideas can have a major effect on how their point is received. Today’s ideas about the religious lives of Canaanites have been drawn on primarily from The Hebrew Bible and archaeological evidence. In their respective works, biblical scholars Benjamin Sommer and Carol Meyers choose to interpret these pieces of religious evidence is varying ways; Meyers takes a more cultural approach while Sommer’s has a theological leaning. Recognizing these different perspectives, I prefer the approach that Meyers takes because of its focus in anthropology.

Deuteronomy 32:8 has caused controversy because of the phrase םיהלא ינב or םילא ינב “sons of God.” Some have postulated that this reading renders the Israelite religion to be polytheistic instead of monotheistic. Therefore, translators have changed the Scripture to read “sons of Israel” (NIV, NASB), “children of Israel” (KJV), or “people of Israel” (HCSB). Dr. Heiser has persuasively argued that the translation “sons of God” is the correct reading of the original Hebrew text, and should be translated that way in our English Bibles for a number of reasons. A few examples will be examined to show that “sons of God” is the correct translation of Deuteronomy 32:8.

• The Chorus introduce themselves as “the old dishonoured ones, the broken husks of men” alluding to the fact that they are the old men of Argos and could not go to war “old men are children once more” makes us sympathise with the Chorus in their old age.