Grandma Moses

God does not act as such in the Bible. Rather than being interested in humanity in general, or even the Israelites specifically, God is primarily interested in certain individuals. These works suggest that even God has favorites. From Abraham to Moses to David, and all those heroes of the Bible, God preserves the peoples from which he derives these favored individuals. In these passages, the presence of a “chosen one” makes or breaks a society, and more often

of all baby boys. At this particular time Moses was born, from the tribe of Levi. Although trained as the son of Pharaoh’s daughter, yet, his own mother was hired to care for him due to her placing him in the bulrushes at the edge of the Nile River to not be destroyed because of Pharaoh’s order to kill all baby boys. With his mother caring for him, he grew up knowing the plight of his people. Many years passed approximately 80 when God appeared to Moses as a shepherd in Midian, in a burning bush

Leviticus, Numbers, and Deuteronomy, make up the Torah. The Torah is based on God’s teaching through his prophet Adam, Abraham, and Moses. The Torah can be looked as laws or guidelines to offer one a way to live. “Thus there could be the tradition of an oral Torah, actually the product of generations of interpretation through a long succession of rabbis, yet equally ascribed to Moses together with the ultimate closed written Torah” (Coward 6). The Mosaic Law contains a series of codes on social, ethical,

In the Jewish religion, there have been many occurrences of pluralism and many movements throughout the timeline of its history, from the very beginning of Creation to this very moment. Pluralism has been an important dimension of Judaism. There have been past, present and there will be future movements of this religion because it is ever evolving and growing for and to most. In each period of Judaic history, there have been several moments of pluralism at its finest and examples of different movements

The Old Covenant is a compilation of testimonies and instructions given to all of Israel. They had been instructed by God’s servants and had witnessed numerous divine miracles from God, yet they failed to live up to their end of the bargain. This overview will show us a pattern of human failings and God’s plan of redemption. CREATION In the beginning was God, God creates the universe, he creates Adam and Eve and institutes marriage . Satan tempts Adam and Eve, who then falls into sin, for the wages

meeting. Having the setting be at Mt. Sinai and so close to the departure from Egypt, the audience would most likely be the succeeding generations of the exiles and some original exiles. Even as most believe that the Book of Leviticus was authored by Moses, is mostly of the Priestly History because of the subjects and tones contained within. The first subject covered in thoroughness is The Sacrifice for Offerings, what is acceptable and how to prepare and present them, Secondly, the dedication to the

The book of Amos is the earliest preserved example of classic prophetic writings. It consists of nine chapters, but Amos did not write the entirety of them. “A majority of scholars think that not all of the material in Amos goes back to the prophet himself but was added later by ancient editors of the book.” The anthology contains a variation of materials: prophecies, visions and addresses from Amos to the people of Israel. Two major themes of the book are the social injustice in Israel, and the

In the Bible, there are many covenants. Through a series of covenants, God enters into people’s life and brings people together. The idea of the covenant has been described by Hugenberger as follows: “A covenant, in its normal sense, is an elected, as opposed to natural, relationship of obligation under oath.” (Jefferey 10) His definition follows that of Mendenhall, who defines covenant more broadly as a “solemn promise made binding by an oath, which may be either a verbal formula or a symbolic oath

covenant with Israel. The people come to Sinai and God’s message is given to them. Moses is called up the mountain, into the presence of God, and was employed as the messenger of the covenant. This covenant was granted out of God’s free grace. It is meant to be a national covenant by which the Israelites were a people under the government of God. The covenant would become a shadow of the good things to come. Moses then directs them to prepare to hear the law,

Loyalty has always been seen as a commendable trait, not only in human beings but in any creature, all through history. Soldiers have admired their enemies for their loyalty to fallen comrades, thousands of stories have been written about the intense loyalty animals portray for their owners, and even companies in the workforce look for loyalty in potential employees. Loyalty has been seen as something that distinguishes the trustworthy from the untrustworthy, and something that sets the great apart