" The most famous of all Jewish prayers is the liturgical prayer called the Shema. ... To fully understand and appreciate the Shema, the best place to start is to investigate what the Talmud says about the Shema, its importance to rabbinic thought, and how this famous prayer relates to the New Testament. ... The first three chapters of the Berakhot discuss the famous prayer the Shema: • Chapter One - the obligation to recite Shema is discussed, along with the times when it may be recited and the details of this obligation. ...

• Word Count: 3136
• Approx Pages: 13
• Has Bibliography
• Grade Level: High School

Klassen provides an example of this thirst for vengeance when he quotes Agamemnon stating, "No; we are not going to leave a single one of them alive, down to the babies in their mothers" wombs- not even they must live. ... Klassen also provides a quote from the Odyssey stating, "The disgrace of it will echo down the generations should we fail to punish the murderer of our sons and kindred (Odyssey XXIV. 433-34)." ... Famous philosophers Plato and Socrates agreed with the aspects of war, but they too were challenged by those who sought peace and unity. ... The Old Testament is also read ...

• Word Count: 3806
• Approx Pages: 15
• Grade Level: High School

The famous women's suffrage leader, Elizabeth Cady Stanton, and others attempted in the nineteenth century to get women commentators to explore and explain a woman's perspective on the Bible. ...

• Word Count: 2927
• Approx Pages: 12
• Grade Level: High School

INTRODUCTION Israel had seen long period of humiliation and spiritual anxiety through the seventy years of Exile prior to Haggai's ministry. One must know something of these trying years and the events at their close which issued in the return of the Jews to Canaan in order to understand the problem...

• Word Count: 3103
• Approx Pages: 12
• Has Bibliography
• Grade Level: High School