Old Testament

Similarities occur in the Gospels of Matthew and Luke in that they are both telling the same narrative, with minor differences, however. Each story is from a different point of view, way of looking at things, and each author chose to highlight different parts of His birth story. Matthew gives more attention to Joseph and His lineage while Luke gives more attention to Mary and is also the only Gospel account in which “Gentile Magi come and worship the Christ Child” (Blomberg, 2009, p.149). In…

ascertained by science (Judaism 101. Calendar. Numbering of Jewish Years). Jews use the abbreviations C.E. (Common or Christian Era) and B.C.E. (Before the Common Era), as do scholars today. In reference to the civil calendar, A.D. refers to “the year of our Lord and B.C. to Before Christ. The Biblical calendar also uses the abbreviation A.M. (Anno Mundi) meaning Year of the World (Hebrew Calendar. par 4). The "first month" of the Jewish calendar is the Spring month of Nissan, when Passover…

Personally, I had never really broken down my feelings of the art and the relationship to God or even to the Bible. While reading Chapter 1, I was able to pull many things from the bible that now seem a bit obvious. This includes the fact that artists should be led by the Holy Spirit while creating their work. They should use this to praise God in an art form. On page 20, Schaeffer discusses the argument that some suggest the ten commandments condemns the use of art in general. He breaks…

Imagination by standard definition is the faculty or action of forming new ideas, or images or concepts of external objects not present to the senses. In bases, imagination is the ability to vision (envision) something that you haven’t experienced of seen happen. As a designer, I often rely on my imagination to create new clothing ideas from flat fabric. Looking at the fabric, I then will (will then) see a vision of how the fabric will end as I manipulate it into become a shirt, pans, skirt…

Every book in the bible is centered on our God and his works. Some books in the bible are directly parallel to one another. They teach the same message maybe just worded different or through a different story. These stories may have many similarities and differences throughout that makes one interpret the stories differently. A good example of this is in 2nd Kings Chapter 22 and 2nd Chronicles Chapter 33. In both of the books the author writes about King Manasseh’s reign at king, but just a…

Art is a way for creators to express their values through their creations. The David is an amazing statue created by Bernini. The David is a statue that is inspired by the biblical story of David. Out of the many versions of The David that had been created in the past, the version that Bernini created it by far the statue that had the most time, effort and thought put into it. Just about everything that the statue has meaning and reflects the values of Bernini and the people that were a part of…

Both Kings and Chronicles are God-inspired books that tell the same story, but the purposes are to a certain extent different. Kings tells the history of Israel from Solomon becoming a king to the fall of Judah (623). If Noth and DH scholars are correct, then these books are simply a part of a larger work that starts in Deuteronomy and ends with 2 Kings (623). Our text describes the aim of the author was to explain how the narrative arose out of a series of connected, past events (624). It…

As Michael Brown states in What They Don’t Tell you: A Survivor’s Guide to Biblical Studies: a Bible study focuses more on helping people to either understand what God wants in their life or how to be a better Christian. Sometimes Bible study helps solidify theological beliefs, or to develop new theological beliefs. As Brown stated, Bible study is often more of a mid week worship than a scholarly breakdown of the Bible. On the other hand, Biblical study differs from Sunday School because you…

healing in v. 8a-b have already occurred in 30:26 where the prophet compares God’s healing of the wounds Hebrew Grammar-Syntax, 70-80; Polan, In the Ways of Justice, 207. Cf. Because of its function as an equivalent to the imperative, the LXX renders the absolute infinitives as imperative (lu/e, dia, lue, avpo,stel le). 98Oswalt, The Book of Isaiah: Chapters 40-66, 503; Childs, Isaiah, 478. For example, xt;P' occurs in 22:22; 35:5; 41:18; 45:1; 48:8; 50:5; 51:14; 52:2. xl;v' in 42:19; 43:14;…

Amy-Jill Levine is a Methodist author who writes to us about “the enigmatic parables of a controversial Rabbi.” She is taking the parables of Jesus and giving them a new light to help with understanding them. If you enjoy an educational read from time to time that is easy to understand and gives you a feeling of knowing more than when you started I would recommend this book to you. One of the many reasons is that this book helps the reader to understand more of the original purpose of a…