Essays Tagged: "leviticus"

Atonement

es Version, appears seventy seven times in the Old Testament and only once in the New Testament. In Leviticus, atonement appears fifty one times, more than any other book of the bible. In Numbers it a ... Numbers it appears seventeen times and in Exodus eleven times. The reason why it is used so much in Leviticus is that during that time period priest were intercessor's between the people and God. In t ...

(6 pages) 124 0 4.8 Jan/1997

Subjects: Humanities Essays > Religion & Faith > Christianity

Comparative essay- Murmuring Judges (David Hare) and Measure for Measure (Shakespeare) Good for A-Level Eng Lit+Lang (theme of power).

nce of the possible themes and makes an allusion to the old testament teaching 'an eye for an eye' (Leviticus, 24:20) and also conjures the mental image of a pair of scales, with each 'measure' or act ...

(9 pages) 100 1 4.7 Apr/2003

Subjects: Literature Research Papers > European Literature > Authors > Shakespeare

The Old Testament book of Leviticus.

LEVITICUSBIB 111 History & Literature of Ancient IsraelSeptember 23, 2002At the end of the Exodu ... Ancient IsraelSeptember 23, 2002At the end of the Exodus, the tabernacle is completed. The book of Leviticus is the instruction to the Israelites, revealing God's holiness and how His imperfect peopl ... ian, because the temple, animal sacrifice, and culture of that time are completely foreign to us.In Leviticus, God is the direct speaker throughout almost all of it, addressing two groups of people: t ...

(2 pages) 63 0 5.0 Jul/2003

Subjects: Humanities Essays > Religion & Faith > Christianity

The History of the Old Testament-Chronologically.

order is as follows: (1) the Torah or Law, the five books of the Pentateuch, i.e., Genesis, Exodus, Leviticus, Numbers, and Deuteronomy; (2) the Prophets, consisting of Joshua, Judges, First and Secon ... the Deuteronomic History, in which the older JE traditions were reworked in light of its theology. Leviticus, with its emphasis on priestly matters, probably reached its final form in the post-exilic ...

(8 pages) 167 1 3.0 Dec/2003

Subjects: History Term Papers > World History

Revenge caused by injury and it's consequences in Herman Melville's "Moby Dick"

As it is seen in the Bible, under Leviticus 24:19-21, "If a man injures his neighbor, just as he has done, so it shall be done to him: ...

(12 pages) 49 0 5.0 Jul/2004

Subjects: Literature Research Papers > North American

Debt, Development and the Biosphere

nhabitants of thy land: for it is the year of jubilee." This claim is found in the Old Testament in Leviticus 25:10. It is the premise behind the Jubilee 2000 campaign launched by British Christian ba ...

(21 pages) 112 0 4.3 Oct/2004

Subjects: Social Science Essays > Political Science > Specific Policies

The jewish torah

The Torah is the five books of Moses (Genesis, Exodus, Leviticus, Numbers, Deuteronomy). The Torah can also include the rest of the Tenakh(old testament) a ...

(1 pages) 47 0 3.0 Nov/2004

Subjects: Humanities Essays > Religion & Faith

My continued complete refutation of the Bible verse by verse: Leviticus

LEVITICUSI-IX: Rather than subject you to constantly re-reading the same detailed instructions f ...

(9 pages) 49 3 3.3 Apr/2005

Subjects: Humanities Essays > Religion & Faith > Christianity

Jewish Food Laws

so cows, sheep, goats and deer are all kosher because they own these two features. This comes from Leviticus 11:2-3, "˜ These are the animals which you may eat"¦ anything which has a spli ...

(3 pages) 1397 0 0.0 Jul/2001

Subjects: Humanities Essays > Religion & Faith