Bible Essay Samples Page 3

A Book Review of  R.B.Y Scott’s Relevance of the Prophets I.                   Introduction Dr. Robert Scott’s Relevance of the Prophets written in 1944 is a work scholarly exploring the tradition and literature of the biblical prophets. It is an ardent and critical study of who and what prophets really are. He asks the question what makes…

What happens after death has been a debated and documented topic dating back to shortly after the death of Jesus Christ. It is basically impossible to get certain evidence to back up beliefs. We are forced to rely on religious material and theologians to paint a picture for us. Even then it is hard to…

The Leviathan and The Behemot: Dinosaur, Dialect, or Diety From the Romans to the Greek to the Kush to the Egyptians, folklore has been handed down from generation to generation. In most cases this folklore transcends any one religion and carries over into the next. Much like the Romans adopting and perverting Greek folklore, so…

The Yahwist and Elohist narratives share both similarities and differences, primarily due to their distinct accounts of Yahweh. However, they are interconnected through the “Older Federation Story.” This essay aims to compare and contrast the Yahwist and Elohist stories, examining their individual goals, backgrounds, and historical contexts. The main focus of the Yahwist story is…

Barbara Kingsolver is the writer of many well-written pieces of literature including The Poisonwood Bible. This fresh explores the beauty and adversities that exist in the Belgian Congo in 1959. Told by the married woman and four girls of a ferocious Baptist, Nathan Price, Kingsolver clearly captures the worlds this household and mission went through…

 I. IntroductionLike other prophecies of the Old Testament Scripture, Prophet Daniel’s seventy weeks prophecy (which is found in the book of Daniel 9:24-27) has had its fulfilment in the person and work of Jesus Christ. Host of Bible scholars cited three hundred plus realized predictions with such precision that it is now established without any…

It’s these liberal beliefs that threaten the moral fiber and ideal belief structure of Christianity and the derivatives from the Holy Bible. The Bible can play toward many different views, like from a conservatives aspect one could argue that though it never specifically says in the Bible anything against homosexuality, It Is implied that It…

Although not very important, I took the liberty this past month(Black History) to document my research to the age old question, “Was Jesus Black,” after a small debate with my auntie Angelina Quarterman arguing that He was a Jew, and Jews are White(lol). The typical Hollywood image in which ancient Israelites look like fair-haired White…

The Synoptic Problem is the term used by New Testament scholars to describe the “study of the similarities and differences between” the three Synoptic Gospels “in an attempt to explain their literary relationships” (Goodacre 16). Of the four gospels contained in the New Testament, three, namely Matthew, Mark and Luke are known as the Synoptics….

Profound Hope In the dark entrance of a secluded cave, I sit and ponder on how I will survive. My only light comes from a small fire which took me about two hours to get started from clicking two flint stones together. If not for the small fire, I would be very cold due to…