The Old Testament is filled with history that is relevant to people's lives today. ... Throughout the Old Testament there are examples of covenants that God makes with His people. ... Another attempt to enter was made from the West, but the passage was refused with battles and treaties. ... The hope was that the people would govern themselves but maintain unity by meeting three times a year at the main sanctuary, so they could renew their covenant with God and each other, responding when necessary to defend each other in battle. ... Later, because they did not follow God, Israel lost t...

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• Grade Level: High School

Although faith is only mentioned twice in the Old Testament it does not mean that there was a lack of faith by those who served the Lord before Christ was born. Their faithfulness is clearly seen by their actions and works throughout the Old Testament and Abraham's life is a great example. ... He murdered Bathsheba's husband Uriah by placing him on the front line where the battle was fierce and Uriah was killed, (Vs 17). ... When things get comfortable we tend to slack off and not go to war like king David did, even though it was a season when kings go to do battle. ... In conclusio...

• Word Count: 1559
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• Grade Level: High School

The name of the book that this report is describing is The Testament, by John Grisham. ... The main characters in The Testament are Troy Phelan, a rich old man who is about to die at the beginning of the story and writes a will, which the story is revolved around; Nate O'Riley, an alcoholic in trouble with the IRS, who is responsible for finding Phelan's long lost daughter in Brazil to give her the money Phelan left for her in his last testament; Josh Stafford, Phelan's lawyer who deals with all of Phelan's affairs; and Rachel Lane, Phelan's long lost daughter in Bra...

• Word Count: 980
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• Grade Level: High School

They also cover a subject, which today is still a battle. ... They spoke of going back to the traditions of the Old Testament, yet in the Old Testament, it says both men and women were created equal. ... So as you see, followers of God, followers of the Old Testament, not following what it says. ...

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This again is further reference to the Bible and Old Testament (Cliffs Notes 54-55). ... The first is Beowulf's battle with Grendel, next is Beowulf descending into the mere, and last is Beowulf's mortal battle with the dragon. ... The poet or writer makes more noticeable references towards the Old Testament rather than the New Testament. Those who support allegory of salvation believe "that man that has fallen from grace must be redeemed, which is a creed as much a part of the New Testament as the story of creation is of the Old Testament" (Cliffs Notes 63). ... Beowulf's...

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• Grade Level: High School

In the 'Old World' Chinese believed that death brought a gradual return to the cosmos, while the Romans, Arabs and Greeks thought that death allowed one to reach a more definitive plain (e.g. ... In the New World, Aztecs believed that dying in certain ways led to different post-death existences: a man who died in battle would become a humming bee that would bring on the sunrise, a woman who died in childbirth would be reborn into a goddess that would bring on the sunset, sacrificed victims became one with the sun and a person who died an ordinary, undistinguished death would go to t...

• Word Count: 888
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• Grade Level: Undergraduate

Christianity, in addition to the tradition contained within the Hebrew Bible, also refers to fire in the New Testament. ... In the New Testament stories regarding judgment (Matthew 13), weeds, which represent people not chosen, are sent to the "furnace of fire." ... In the Old Testament, Abner is refered to as "the son of Ner", Ner meaning "to glisten or shine like a lamp" in Hebrew. (Strong 78-80) Coming from the Chaldeean root "nuer", translated in the Old Testament as "fiery" or "fire". ... And the battle at Gilboa against the Philistines, the King and a number of his sons were killed, the ...

• Word Count: 908
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• Grade Level: High School

Christianity, in addition to the tradition contained within the Hebrew Bible, also refers to fire in the New Testament. ... In the New Testament stories regarding judgment (Matthew 13), weeds, which represent people not chosen, are sent to the "furnace of fire." ... In the Old Testament, Abner is refered to as "the son of Ner", Ner meaning "to glisten or shine like a lamp" in Hebrew. (Strong 78-80) Coming from the Chaldeean root "nuer", translated in the Old Testament as "fiery" or "fire". ... And the battle at Gilboa against the Philistines, the King and a number of his sons were killed, the ...

• Word Count: 935
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• Has Bibliography
• Grade Level: High School

This series of battles was called The Recon quest. ... Breuilly, Brien, and Palmer state, "It is divided into the Old Testament and the New Testament. The word testament means "witness," and Christians believe that the Old Testament contains the witness of God originally to the Jews, and the New Testament the witness of people who knew Jesus or were closely associated with events in the early church." (46) The Bible is the guide book for the Christian. ... Muslims study the writings of the other profits including the Old and New Testaments but believe that they have been distorted over ti...

• Word Count: 2152
• Approx Pages: 9
• Has Bibliography
• Grade Level: High School

Biblical events such as David and Goliath, the Birth of Christ, War in Heaven, and King Alexander's decapitation (Old Testament) can be linked into this novel. ... Senex, an old rooster, was one of the animals that the evil invaded. ... These scenes and events throughout the battles closely represent the battles in heaven that the Bible vividly describes. ... The great battle between Michael and the dragon (devil) almost tells the same story of the battle between Wyrm and Mundo Cani. ... Cockatrice was cast into Hell just like Alexander was in the Old Testament of the Holy Bible. ...

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• Grade Level: High School

Another Biblical example, would be King David of the Old Testament. When he was merely a boy, he volunteered to represent his army in battle. ... An example of this would be a soldier in battle who sees a fellow soldier wounded, then risks his own life to help the other soldier in need. ... From the 6 year old brother who steps up to the 10 year old bully to protect his little sister, to the law enforcers who risk their lives everyday to serve and protect the people, all who put themselves in risky situations, endure the hardships that come with that situation, and persevere through those ha...

• Word Count: 588
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• Grade Level: High School

In the Old testament God did in fact come within the boundaries of our human experience. ... The past experience of the Old Testament gives us a general idea of who God is , the general idea of his presence, and the action He chooses with His chosen people. ... We have to understand the Old Testament before we can get clear vision of the New Testament, for both show how God saves and delivers. ... The resurrection was not a point to make us believe God was real, but a divine action extending, the promises of history, and we see complete fulfillment in the Old Testament. ... David we see t...

• Word Count: 1629
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• Grade Level: High School

Much of the Old and New Testaments are filled with used of metaphor, simile, personification, allegory, and pun and of course, hyperbole. ... In terms of use of hyperbole in the New Testament, there is one central figure who provides us with some of the most eloquent and recollective verses where his use of exaggeration seems so perfectly chosen that once understood, the images are forever with us. ... There is example after example of this style of hyperbole in the Old Testament. ... (Judges 20:2-3) Here we see a third commonly used form of exaggeration that is found throughout the...

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• Grade Level: High School

As said once in Unbreakable there are two types of villains the one who fights with muscles and the other who fights the battle with his mind and those are the ones who are the hardest to defeat. ... Which means he did not kidnap Cora and Alice because he was cold hearted, he did it because he was fighting a battle of pride. ... Although people could have probably felt more sympathy towards him in the time period he wrote it in mainly because the Old Testament philosophies were much more accepted. ...

• Word Count: 551
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• Grade Level: High School

I do not think a church is a place of battle. ... I think using the church as a place to hide or blow up is kind of like in the Bible where merchants started selling things in the house of God, using it for the wrong reason Jesus was displeased with that because his fathers house is a place of worship, not selling things, and defiantly not battle. ... In the Old Testament when Abraham sinned with his wife, handmaiden God said that Ishmael (Palestine) and Isaac's (Israel) nations would always fight over whose land it was. ...

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• Grade Level: High School

ASPECT OF AMERICAN LIFE During the trial freedom of thought vs. censorship is battled. ... The battle between the precepts of Darwin and the literal interpretation of the Old Testament is just one of the themes of the play....

• Word Count: 650
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• Grade Level: High School

Many argue that the story has no real Christian connection because it fails to make references to the New Testament, however this may not reflect a lack of Christian connection but the relative youth of Christianity within Anglo-Saxon Culture. ... Why the poet himself with a plot of mere fabulous adventures so much inferior to the splendid heroic setting, unless the narrative derived a superior dignity from suggesting the most exalted hero-life known to Christians. " Both Kemble and Klaeber are intrigued by the author's focus on Beowulf's; charity and other non warrior attributes wi...

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• Grade Level: Undergraduate

This also ties in the Knights religious beliefs; the Old Testament says follow the law or die. ... Sir Gawain also has to use some of his battle skills in fending off wild beasts. ... This is just as the New Testament promises. ...

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Kiowa's old hunting hatchet, given to him by his grandfather, not only serves as a useful day to day tool but it also serves as a reminder to who he is and to where he come from and the family he left behind. Just like the hatchet, Kiowa's bible is also a multi functional weapon against the battle of homesickness, it serves as a reminder of his father, the familiar smell of the pages and the leather soothes him and gives him relief from the stresses of the war. The Bible also functions as a testament to Kiowa's faith and trust in God during his seemingly endless struggle for sur...

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In the Qu'ran, the Islamic old testament, there is a line that is famous for encouraging violence, it reads "And kill them wherever you find them, and turn them out from where they have turned you out...and fight them until there is no more Fitnah [disbelief and worshipping of others along with Allah and worship is for Allah alone.... This time, it was the Christians that started the battle. ...

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During his battle with the monster, Beowulf pulls off his claw, arm and shoulder using his bare hands. ... Grendel escapes into his lair, eventually dieing from his battle wounds. ... There are, however, only scant references to the Old Testament in the poem and no whatsoever to the New Testament, Jesus, or any of the specifically Christian topics or symbols that predominate the thoughts of the early middle ages. ...

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• Grade Level: High School

The ancient values of Beowulf and his time coincide more with the precepts of the Old Testament (e.g. eye for an eye), than with the teachings of Christ within the New Testament. ... Fate is what is mentioned as the deciding factor in who shall emerge as victor in the battle between Beowulf and the dragon: I shall face the fiend with a firm heart/let every man's ruler reckon my fate ( 2227-2228). ... In fact the poet does this directly with Beowulf recalling of his surviving a battle with sea monsters in his youth: As God's beacon brightened the east,/I spied a cape across calming se...

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She agreed, but she told him that a woman would get the glory for winning the battle (Judges 4:6-10). ... In my understanding of the Old Testament, the readings embodied the structure of civilization of Israel. ...

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Old Testament King David In second Samual, King David is depicted as a true, but imperfect, example of an ideal king. Later kings were compared to him. I think the main point in this is that; King David was a good king despite his sinful nature, and we can learn from his actions both good and ba...

• Word Count: 591
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• Grade Level: High School