Exegetical Summary: The Hebrew Bible

The Old Testament is the largest part of the bible nestled behind the leather binding in the front of the book. Unlike most books, told from one-person or even two this is comprised of multiple, some stories even having two different versions in another point of view; over time it has become a large collection of ancient texts written and re-written by different authors and editors over the many years. The stories show the ancient Israelites, they show the laws, and rituals, which make up their religion and the small embers, which will one day, turn to a flame that is Christianity. The Jewish people view these stories as collected in what they call the Torah, is the collection for what makes up their history and the promise that God gave to them, as well as their laws and what they worship today. For the Christians the Old Testament is still seen as sacred, but most place a stronger importance to the New Testament.

The Hebrew Bible contains contradictory and inadequate information, which impacts my views about what the Hebrew Bible, says and what the Bible means. It has multiple significances. It is evident that various scriptures in the Hebrew Bible do not say what it means, nor does it mean what it says. “Ultimately, it 's going to take some detective work in an effort to enhance interpretation further.”[pg. 6].

The book of Hebrews has long left readers with various unanswered questions. This is largely due to the fact that its origin is a mystery and has left readers to create multiple theories on how the book came into being. From the author to the intended audience, and from the land of its origin, to its travel across the ancient world, and its eventual acceptance into the compilation of scripture, much of what we know about the book of Hebrews is speculation. This article seeks to delve deeper into the questions regarding the book 's origin and to the overall purpose of the book which led to its inclusion in the New Testament.

The following morning when Fiona woke up, she had trouble keeping her eyes opened. They felt heavy as though laden with miniature weights.

As an individual who finds great personal value in the Scriptures, Brettler provides permission to look at passages from different angles and perspectives. Consequently, a conclusion must be made that one can not put ancient literature into a neat and tidy “this is what the Bible is saying so it must be true” box. There are many parts of the Hebrew Bible that are strange to read. If many were lived out today, it would ostracize people, and to be blunt, land someone in prison. However, all of these passages are included in this great book, the Hebrew Bible, for a reason. They were important to the Jewish culture whom they were written for. Why were they important to the Jewish culture in the Ancient Near East World? Can they bring value to us today? Is it possible to accurately declare that everything in the Hebrew Bible can be exegetically “figured out”, with no unanswered questions, or unresolved mysteries? Of course not. By asking questions, challenging preconceived notions, and examining whether passages in the Hebrew Bible are mythological or fact, one is not agreeing to a predetermined diminishment of personal spiritual and faith principles derived from the Scriptures.

Document 1.9: Hebrew Scriptures 1. Isaiah says that God will help those in need by blessing them. They will receive the Lord’s spirit, who is all powerful and no other god stands beside him. Isaiah declares that the lord in the creator of all and sis described in a magnificent, omnipotent way. 2.

The Hebrew Bible’s allure and perseverance is due in part to the numerous gaps contained within the text; in these gaps, the characters’ motivations and emotions are left unclear. One such gap is God’s motivation behind his response to Adam and Eve eating the fruit of the tree of knowledge of good and evil. Despite God telling Adam that he will die if he eats the fruits of the tree of knowledge of good and evil (King James Version, Gen. 2.17), eating the fruit did not cause Adam and Eve to die; instead, God allowed them to live and cast them out of the garden of Eden (Gen. 3; 24). Why then did God tell Adam that he will die if he consumes the fruit from that tree if the fruit really doesn’t cause death? This gap between what God says versus what he does allows religious scholars to argue various interpretations of the reasons behind God’s apparent deception of Adam.

The Jewish Bible consists of 24 books of the Tanakh. In rabbinic, “Torah” literally means “teaching” or “instructions”. The first five books, which consist of Genesis, Exodus, 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, and religious topics, such as the Covenant Code (shown in

There is so much history when it comes to the making of the bible. Have you ever thought about how much work, time, and effort went into making the bible? There was so much work, time, and lives that were at stake in the history for all versions of the bible. Of course the history for the English standard version intrigued me the most.

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.

The most sensitive part of the eye is the iris. Which is the thin circular structure of the eye. It is responsible for controlling the size of the pupil and regulates how much light can reach the retina. The iris of the eye is very sensitive. For the sake of using “The iris” about 20 million times throughout this essay, Iris is a woman. She cries when she is upset, when she is happy, and cries when particles for example, debris, or certain fumes she comes into contact with. And the tears that she produces are different for each situation. These tears are called basal, reflex, and emotional tears.

The Law of Moses, or Moses’s Law refers to the first five books of the Hebrew Bible, sometimes call the Pentateuch, or Torah which is a central reference of Judaism. Of the covenants found in the Pentateuch are Genesis, Exodus, Leviticus, Numbers, and Deuteronomy. These books contained the laws and instruction given by the Lord to Moses which establishes Israel as a nation. All five of the books are believed to be written by MosesIntroduction

I have been teaching doctoral seminars on the Hebrew Bible for ten years and have directed seven doctoral dissertations to completion. My model of a seminar is reading and critical study of the Masoretic text, supplemented with the ancient versions, as well as archaeological and textual sources from elsewhere in the Ancient Near East. We read an extensive amount of secondary scholarship and theory. Although there is much enthusiasm today for learning about biblical research by doing it, yielding to the temptation to abandon courses dealing with prescriptions and precedents leaves students vulnerable to chic ideas and passing persuasions. Exclusive focus in formative graduate study on the text, its establishment, criticism, and exegesis, leaves student prone to pseudo-theory and citations of “All Things Considered.” By extensive reading and critical analysis—with the deepest respect for previous achievement—of recognized writers and thinkers, ancient and contemporary, inside and outside the mainstream, we seek, in Matthew Arnold’s words, “the best that is known and thought” for the purpose of creating a “current of new and fresh ideas.” In writing their own papers, students grow

The first 39 books of the larger work called the Bible, is called the Old Testament. The Bible itself is arguably the best selling and most read book of all time, yet it’s well known to be quite challenging to read through and understand. The Old Testament portion of the Bible, notably the most difficult portion of the Bible for most to study and follow, yields 39 books from multiple authors, and spans over 4000 years of crucial world and church history. If that were not enough to take on, the Old Testament comes our way through multiple styles of authorship and formats, including but not limited to, books of history, law, proverbs, ethics,

We follow the lectionary each week and here for this week is this very difficult text. This text is not always our favorite text, but given all that is happening in the world around us, perhaps it is the best text for today. But let’s be honest, when we read this….we think WOW….sounds like Jesus needs some chocolate. He sounds pretty grumpy. This does not sound like the sweet Jesus we know.