Promised Land Research Paper

Even in the days of Jeroboam I, the man who founded the Kingdom of Israel, God already knew that Israel would be troublesome. It was forewarned that, “…the LORD will strike Israel, so that it will be like a reed swaying in the water. He will uproot Israel from this good land that he gave to their forefathers and scatter them beyond the River, because they provoked the LORD to anger by making Asherah poles.” The Israelites’ reason of doubt for God was that they were unsure that they could take over their promised land. God told them that they could remove the current inhabitants, but they were convinced that they could not. Not believing in the word of the Lord led to their exile for forty years of “wilderness wandering.” They had forgotten all of the great things that He had done for them, such as delivering them from Egyptian enslavement. Hope was given up on Him

“When you sit in your own country, your spirits lift and you are again truly back to the land where things make sense and your life has meaning” – Galarruy Yunupingu.

The relationship between people and their environment in A Land Remembered is one where the profit from land exploitation is naturally corrupting and exponentially increases the exploiters lust for larger profit, leading to the exploiter planning larger scale endeavors in the future. The author, Patrick D. Smith (1984), suggests the idea that communities naturally grow in a hedonic cycle to crave more resources to fuel loftier endeavors that require even more resources from the environment, an idea that is also discussed by Aldo Leopold in the Land Ethic as wholly negative, and that is also part of my world view that is rather more optimistic.

We can believe that the Abrahamic covenant would be fulfilled when, God called Abraham to leave his country, relatives, and family to go to the land that he was going to be given. God said, “I will make you into a great nation. I will bless you and make you famous, and you will be a blessing to others.” The land that the Lord took Abraham too, was the land that would be given to him and his descendants. After Abraham was gone, his descendants would be in possession of the land.

The novel, A Land Remembered, is the epic saga of three generations of MacIveys. The novel begins with a flash back, from the last generation MacIvey, Sol. Sol was a real estate tycoon in Miami and the surrounding areas. He has chosen to give up his life in Miami to live his last hours in the cabin in Punta Rassa , Florida; the cabin his grandfather had built. Thus, the three generations of MacIveys in Florida ends.

1. In a compared map of the Holy Land and the state of New Jersey, there are not a lot of differences in the amount of land. Although the Holy Land does not provide important resources, people have been fighting over it throughout history.

Moses: The Holy Land is important to the my people because it was the land promised to us by God. The Holy Land is also where our great temple had once stood

Moses: the holy land is an important site for my faith because jerusalem has always been seen as the holiest city because that is where the main temple of the jewish faith. this is where jews would go celebrate the holiest festivals.

and from your father’s house to the land I will show you” (doc A). This means God told Abraham to leave his home and go forth to Israel, which was rightfully

Ira Berlin’s “The Making of African America: The Four Great Migrations” reminded me of an article that I read by Kevin Boyle in The New York Times titled ‘Promise Land’. In Promised Land Boyle shows how race overpowered his parent’s sense of place (land, family, history) when an African-American couple moved into their neighborhood in Detroit. After some time, they joined the rest of the white people who began selling their property to move into the suburbs. Berlin redefined the understanding of American slavery when he looked at the African-American experience as a story of people who are uprooted and searching for home, and moving slowly towards equality.

Unfortunately, though the Israelites were successful in their attempts to flee, the Joad's never really found what they could consider to be a Promised Land. Though they were able to improve on their situation, they were never lucky enough to really satisfy their dreams of living a comfortable life.

Jewish people have always been wanderers. They are everywhere, and often only temporarily. Jews lived for so long with no home anywhere and a sense of having to eventually move on to a new place. The only place that is the authentic home to the Jews is the holy city of Jerusalem, “God’s previous address,” Yehudah Amichai called it . The Jewish people at the start of the Torah are not in their Promise Land. They were persecuted as slaves in Egypt, traveling through

. God promises Abraham a vast descendants and a prosperous place to build his de family in. (15:5)

God, of course, already knew what was in their hearts. The point is that their obedience or disobedience had to be proven in history.”

 This conflict is among Jews and Arabs. Palestine for the Arabs is a land whose Oil has been cultivated by them for generations. Israel, as later called by the Jews, is a land of inspiration that is destined for them, since many Jews had been living in Israel and emigrating previously (Fraser,1). This shows the Socio-Political and religious roots of the conflict. The Arabic population is currently located in Jerusalem, but the Jewish Population in Israel has a strong desire of relocating to Jerusalem someday, and have been fighting for this to happen