Moses Hadas

In the collection of poems Questions in the Vestibule, Rachel Hadas explores the different emotions she experiences after the death of her husband. Hadas had lost two very important men in her life. During the Writers at Newark reading, Hadas explained how she lost both her Father and her late husband. They both had a large impact on her work. Her father, Moses Hadas, was a classical scholar and a translator of classical works. He died when she was seventeen years old. She follows in her father's

Israelites reach the borders of the Promised Land and Moses reviews the people’s history in the wilderness and pleads with them to be faithful to the law and to be obedient after they posses the land. Moses is old by this time and he stresses the covenant made between God and Israel through Abraham, Moses and the people reaffirm the covenant and reminding them of the blessings that will come if the people are obedient. The Lord will not allow Moses to cross the river Jordan with them and Joshua becomes

Referred to as “Tanak” by Jews, the Hebrew Bible contains twenty-four books characterized by three categories: The Torah, the Nevi’im, and the Ketuvim, which outline the history and beliefs of the Jewish faith. The Torah, commonly known as the “Law of Moses,” contains the books of Genesis, Exodus, Leviticus, Numbers, and Deuteronomy. These five narrative books cover the Biblical eras of creation, the patriarchs, and the exodus. In Genesis 1, God created everything from nothing at His will in six days

Introduction Spiritual Lessons From Joshua Joshua was deeply devoted to God, the God of Israel, and a loyal servant of Moses. He took charge of Israel after the death of Moses, and he gave instructions to carry the Arc of the Covenant across the Jordan River, which parted as did the Red Sea. He lead Israel around the city of Jericho and the walls came tumbling down and he lead Israel 's conquest of the promise land. There has been no day like the day that God heeded Joshua 's command for the sun

American mythologist and writer Joseph Campbell can be quoted, “Computers are like Old Testament (gods), lots of rules and no mercy.” Sadly enough, many people, even some Biblical scholars, hold to this stereotype that the Old and New Testaments display different foundational characteristics of God: law versus grace. As will be examined here, the stories of the OT are abundant in both God’s grace and His holiness, and the histories within these books are saturated with the theological themes of covenant

No matter what path one chooses to follow in life, God will find a way to inflict punishment. One can disobey his words as Adam and Eve choose to, commit actions whilom forbidden and in turn taint mankind, or one can be as devout as Job and have one’s entire family slain in the name of a challenge posed by Satan. One might as well disregard the idea of God in itself if one is to find naught but chastisement in his or her lifetime. In Hebrew, יהוה (HVH), oft later translated to ‘YHVH’ and eventually

Christ is the leader of the Church, Paul in Ephesians 1:22 said “God placed everything under his feet and appointed him to be head over everything for the Church” however, God entrusted the authority to lead to his servant whom he set them aside to lead the community. Pastor as a public Leadership is to lead community. A person who is called by God to lead public has a responsibility to be in the community, with the community and for the community. One of best questions raised in the class during

be recognised. The similarities are greatly apparent in the myths that are described within their holy books: the Torah, the Bible, and the Quran, respectively. This paper will compare the myths of creation; the great flood; the prophets: Abraham, Moses, Jesus and Muhammad; and the afterlife as they are viewed by the three religions to show that their individual myths have more similarities than differences. The creation myths of these religions indicates that they are all monotheistic. In the Judeo-Christian

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