Santiago as a Christ Figure On its surface, Ernest Hemingway's The Old Man and the Sea tells the story of Santiago, an old Cuban fisherman who has been 84 days without a catch; Manolin, the young man who loves him; and Santiago's tremendous struggle with a gigantic marlin. ... Soon sharks appear, and the old man breaks his knife after he kills just a few. ... Teaching "The old man taught the boy to fish and the boy loved him," writes Hemingway (The Old Man and the Sea, page 10). ... It's interesting to note that Santiago often dreams of young lions on the beach in Africa, w...

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An example of one of Basser's arguments concerns the three separate yet similar stories when Jesus cured a man, or woman depending on the Gospel writer, who had a "withered hand" on the Sabbath (Matthew 12:10-13, Luke 13:14-17, Luke 14:3-5). ... To Jesus, the man or woman's withered hand was worth over-riding scribal law for, however, it may still be possible to assume, like some Pharisees did, that the charge against Jesus for healing on the Sabbath was one of breaking divine Torah Law, as it says in Exodus 31:15, "When it is possible to do a commandment on another day, the Sabbath...

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Thus Pseudo-Justin Martyr says: "Is the soul by itself man No; but the soul of man. Would the body be called man No, but it is called the body of man. If, then, neither of these is by itself man, but that which is made up of the two together is called man, and God has called man to life and resurrection, He has called not a part, but the whole, which is the soul and the body." ...

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