In both stories, Jesus is born to Mary and Joseph in the Town of Bethlehem and spends the majority of his life in the land of Galilee; all other aspects of the two narratives are not shared. ... An angel warns Joseph to leave Israel (2:13), informs him to bring his family back to the promised land (2:20), and advised to take his family to Galilee to live in peace (2:22). ...
Where Rome is a capitalist wasteland from which Cesira can profit, Ciociaria is a fertile land that will enable both Rosetta and Cesira to flourish. ... Michele constantly berates the characters for their deliberate moral blindness to the implications of war, a blindness, which results in their being "dead- (Moravia 163-4). ... Cesira, in accepting the capitalist way of life, is spiritually dead, as regulating the economy solely by centralized planning perverts the basis of social justice, since "there are many human needs which cannot be satisfied by the market- (CA 34). ... When Cesira an...
He basically says, "Give me now the part of the estate I will get anyway when you are dead, and let me get out of this."" ... "And when he had spent all, there arose a mighty famine in the land; and he began to be in want."" ... After everything has pointed to him being dead, he still has hope that one day his son will return. ...
In the Old Testament this river is the boundary to the promised land and may be interpreted as the prelude to the gathering of God's dispersed people in their own land." ... The wicked are cast into the lake of fire, the dead stand before God in final judgement, and the righteous enter...
INTRODUCTION In his book "Love of Enemies" William Klassen examines the various interpretations of love of enemies in relation to war and peace in the Jewish and Christian faiths. Klassen has three distinct concerns that make an influence on his views on peace. First, Klassen feels he has a responsibility, as a student of the bible, to listen to the word of the bible. He feels that most of the Anglo-Saxon scholars have not done a good job of actually listening to the word and what it really means. Klassen believes that the use of references to the biblical word a...
The idea here, from the context of this passage, is that to the first century Jews the "good news" was preached similarly compared to the "good news" for Israel, as they came out of Egypt, to a land flowing with milk and honey. ...
