The Old Testament Of The Bible

Introduction to the Hebrew Bible has provided me with a critical analysis of the Hebrew Bible and introduced a wide variety of interpretive strategies, including African American, anthropological, feminist, historical-critical, Jewish, and literary perspectives. These approaches were presented by our author’s, L. Juliana M. Claassens, Peter Enns, Walter Brueggemann, and John L. Collins. Each author provides a unique interpretation to help us comprehend how the text is an expression of one’s interpretive understanding. Having said that, the biggest influence has been how I will seek to present Old Testament scriptures more effectively while remembering the context and the audience in which I am presenting. For example, I believe the greatest lessons that I have been reminded of are, the Old Testaments Scriptures from my childhood, which have become a big part of my relationship with God and are based on a childlike faith, which must now grow in the richness of the different interpretations, it is this message that I can apply to life.

Atkinson (2014) believes effective leadership displays, “No person is less divine than another, and therefore no person is less than another” (p. 145). Throughout the bible, there are many people in scripture that God placed in leadership roles. Jesus, David, Moses, Paul, Peter, Abraham and many others are some of those leaders. There are core attributes discussed in the lecture that personally reflect my opinion of what an effective leader of Christ needs such as, a shared vision, model of the way, empowerment of others, challenge of the process, and encouragement of the heart.

Jesus Christ was the perfect human being, and, Jesus was a leader. Sometimes Jesus acted as a manager,

First and foremost, Jesus Christ is the greatest leader we will ever have. Jesus is the example of a perfect leader. He was

The first thing these biblical leaders need to have is faith in God. All biblical leaders show how faithful they are to God. Some of them show it a little more extreme then others. Like the judge Jephthah showed his faith to God by keeping his vow, even though his vow was very extreme and most people would see it as cruel. He told the Lord that if you grant me victory I will sacrifice the first thing that comes out of my house. Witch in his case happened to be his first-born daughter. Another great leader, Samson, showed his faithfulness to God by not cutting his hair willing. Yet Another great judge of Israel, Gideon, showed his faithfulness to God by sending away soldiers like God told him too even though he was getting ready to be engaged in a massive battle.

Studying the Old Testament is not as straightforward as some may think. Being able to recall stories of the Bible does not necessarily mean you have a thorough grasp on the history of Israel and the surrounding nations. Some people read and discuss the Bible without a solid understanding of the history and social issues that were going on at the time. Being able to relate to the stories in the Bible and struggle with some of the same problems faced by the people in the Bible gives you a greater appreciation for the works in the Bible. I feel that having a firm understanding of all the related history of Israel gives a student of the Old Testament a far greater understanding of why these stories are in the Bible and what was meant to

Throughout all of time and history, God has used many lives of others to grow spiritually in order to expand his kingdom. Through this, God showed many people, throughout history how to lead others to Christ and show them the way into the light, which is righteousness. An excellent example of a true Biblical leader is, Martin Luther. Martin Luther was an ordinary man, like everyone else, but God envisioned something different for him, eventually leading him to post the 95 theses on the Doorpost of the Catholic church door. This led to the conversion of thousands of lives and also to the translation of the Bibles from Latin to german. Martin Luther was a truly extraordinary example of a Good Biblical leader.

As I think on how would Jesus lead in situations of change, I immediately began to think about many situations that I was forced to be a leader in. First, I began to think about as little girl, I was always placed in a leadership role among my brothers and sisters. Second, I began to to think about being force to lead in projects on my job, because many new that I would get the job done. Lastly, I thought about being placed

The purpose of the Old Testament is to give historical background as well as to give prophesies to the world and also to look towards the birth, death and resurrection of Jesus Christ. Jesus came to transform and replace old laws with his sacrifice and free gift. He took the Mosaic divorce law and the law regarding the Sabbath. Jesus was tested by the Pharisees and he won every time. He knew how to answer, many times in the form of a question, parable or story; he always had a response.

A man once said, “Greater love has no one than this: to lay down one 's life for one 's friends” (John 15:13). This belief is shared by the tribes of Israel featured in the Hebrew Bible. This small nation requires each Israelite to be willing to die for the moral code and religious statutes handed down by their god, Yahweh. This ideal of selflessness is evident throughout the Hebrew Bible, but especially so in the stories of two midwives, the mother of Moses, and a prophet called Amos. Here, Israelites show the importance of being willing to sacrifice anything for their society in the forms of their community, their family, and their God.

Prophet! What is a prophet exactly? A prophet in the Old Testament was a person from various backgrounds, who God used to communicate his message to the world. Going to church as a child I always heard that in the Old Testament all prophets were men. That isn’t exactly the case. Even though a majority of them were men, there were also women that were also prophets. The term for a female prophet is Prophetesses. God gave some women approval to speak to his people, but just like men they used their authority for good but also some evil. Five women were mentioned in the Old Testament as being Prophetesses. Mariam, Deborah, Huldah, Noadiah, and Isaiah’s wife. The Bible tells a story about each of these women.

During the first century A.D. the Pharisees, Sadducees, Essenes, and the Nationalist all lived in Palestine. Something that all these groups had in common was that they were all Jewish, however, most did not identify themselves with any of these groups. Even though all these groups were jewish, their definition and perception of the messiah were all different. Each group also dealt with Roman rule differently, which cause a lot of problems.

“In the beginning, God created the Heauen, and the Earth. And the earth was without forme, and voyd, and darknesse was vpon the face of the deepe: and the spirit of God mooued vpon the face of the waters. And God said, Let there be light, and there was light.” (Genesis 1-3) So begins the first book of the Christian Old Testament, the Hebrew Torah, one of the most recognizable texts in history. At least, the text begins the King James Bible in 1611, itself arguably the most influential version or translation of the Bible today. But this is not the original text. Surprisingly, the original scripture was not written in Early Modern English in the 17th century in the British Isles, but in Hebrew and possibly Aramaic, while the New Testament was written in Koine Greek. In fact, the original Hebrew looked nothing like our Latin script of today. Hebrew is a Semitic language, and therefore an Afroasiatic one, while English is Indo-European, and you would be hard pressed to find someone who believes that the two fall into a larger, connected language family besides some Indian nationalists who believe that all languages are derived from Sanskrit, or Tamil. And although there is much borrowing and exchanging of roots and words, modern English speakers have no mutual intelligibility with Hebrew. As Ralph Waldo Emerson famously said in his Letters and Social Aims, “Language is a city to the building of which every human has brought a stone.” It’s a nice concept, and it would be hard

The names “Old Testament” and “New Testament” are inherently theological in nature. Because there is a difference distinctly built into giving them different notations, it implies that there are differences between each the Old Testament and the New Testament, whether it is subtle in nature or obvious in nature. To Christians, the difference means that the Old Testament contains dealings between God and the world and even some of the rules made are made irrelevant by the interactions of Christ Jesus with the world. One of the differences between the New Testament and the Old Testament is the way each of the Testaments describe God and God’s nature. The Old Testament describes an angry God, one who only created the world and was obsessed with laws and rules. The New Testament describes a loving God who redeemed the world. The different ways the Old Testament and New Testament describe God and his nature are very much influenced by their perspective of God. By the rules, actions, and laws God made, the early writers of the Old Testament made their judgements about God and wrote those perspectives into the books of the Old Testament. The writers of the Old Testament did the best they could with the information they had and got some things about God right, but also got things wrong. The writers of the New Testament and therefore, Christian believers understand God better.

There are many people in scripture that God has placed in leadership roles. Jesus himself, David, Moses, Paul, Peter, Abraham and many others are some of those leaders. There are core attributes discussed in the lecture that personally reflect my opinion of what an effective leader of Christ needs such as, a shared vision, model of the way, empowerment of others, challenge of the process, and encouragement of the heart. Leaders establish a model of the way others should be treated and how goals should be pursued, with standards and examples of what others should follow by exemplifying God’s example. Christian leaders inspire a shared vision to make a difference