Old Testament Essays

1. The Old Testament consisted of a set of documentations of religious scriptures, which were written by different people at various times to a different audience. Most of the Old Testament contains short stories of traditional stories and those stories of distinguish ways God established mankind. These stories are often told to the people in narrative form, which are guidelines often referred to as laws, songs, genealogies, and list from these authors that composed the Old Testaments. The pressing

Introduction In the days of the Old Testament, if you wanted to make a deal with someone, you could either make a promise, or make a covenant with them. However, an important distinction needs to be made here. A promise can be broken without severe consequence. To the people of the Ancient Near East, a covenant closely resembled a Suzerainty Treaty; this was a legal bond between two parties, one being the Suzerain with power, and another being the Vassal, that is agreeing to help from the Suzerain

Deuteronomy is a pivotal book in the Old Testament for several reasons. Thought it is the last book in the Pentateuch it seems to be transitional in nature. Deuteronomy opens with all of Israel on the plains of Moab waiting to enter the land that the Lord God had promised their forefathers to give to them (Num. 33:48; 36:13). This is a new generation, for the older generation, which the Lord led out of Egypt, has died in the wilderness. This new generation was not alive when the first covenant was

Exodus is the earliest text in the Old Testament that creates a new identity and sense of community to a group of people who had nothing. According to the Exodus there were a group of slaves who fled Egypt and where led by a prophet named Moses, who also is the proclaimed author of the book. These people where on a mission to find the promise land where they can be free from oppression and create their own civilization. These claims are true are still debated to this day, but the text was written

DBS 620 Encountering the Old Testament A Christian Survey Bill T. Arnold and Bryan E. Beyer Baker Books Caron M. Allen Doctor of Philosophy in Biblical Studies This paper is prepared for Newburgh Theological Seminary and College of the Bible March 16, 2013 INTRODUCTION I continued my study in pursuit of the doctoral degree in Biblical Studies by reading the text, Encountering the Old Testament. Little did I know when I began reading this text that it would so completely

Essay 4: Prophets The Old Testament is finished up with several different lessons that can be learned from the prophet’s teachings. There were twelve different prophets in the Old Testament, who were also known as the Minor Prophets. The Jews were anxious to know who God was, and the Old Testament prophets offered understanding to many disputes. Idolatry, social injustice and religious ritualism are three topics that are highlighted in the prophet’s teachings and impressed upon the hearts of believers

with significant events in the Old Testament. Both Gilgamesh and the Old Testament are classified as myths, traditional stories involving supernatural being or events, typically concerning the early history. Although both were written years apart and share some similarities, there are also major differences between the two works. Gilgamesh is the oldest piece of epic Western literature known to mankind and was written in 2000 B.C., which predates the Old Testament. It is a heroic, epic poem that

The Old Testament and the Bible itself has been studied extensively for centuries. Archeologists and Scholars have labored and pondered over texts trying to decipher its clues. It does not matter how many times the Old Testament has been studied there will always be something new to learn about it or the history surrounding it. In the book Reading the Old Testament: an Introduction, the author Lawrence Boadt presents us with a few different authors of the Old Testament that used different names for

Mikayla Titus THL 217 A Social Justice-Old Testament Word count: Unit 1: Genesis-The Introduction Throughout the Old Testament, also known as the Hebrew bible, a reoccurring concept that constantly appears time and time again is social justice. The Old Testament initially comes from ancient Israel, where it is actually a group of sacred writings that are more than 2,200 years old (Whybray). The Old Testament writings were written specifically for groups of people during challenging times and was

To begin for the past one-hundred and fifty years archaeologists and historians have found very little evidence that the Israelites violently conquered the cities and nation of Canaan as depicted in the Old Testament. Other than what is written in the Old Testament, no other actual evidence exists that describes the invasion of Canaan by the Israelites in 1406BC. However, archaeological evidence and historical records does acknowledge that as a result of the collapse of the Bronze Age from 1200 to