...Bible Dictionary Project Instructions For these 2 distinct projects, imagine you are writing a series of short articles for a Bible Dictionary. As we have seen in our study, Bible dictionaries are useful tools to learn more about the books, people, and places we encounter in Scripture. Your task will be to write: 1. Three concise 200–250-word essays about a book, person, and setting/place from the Old Testament (Due at the end of Module/Week 5). 2. Three concise 200–250-word essays about a book, person, and setting/place from the New Testament (Due at the end of Module/Week 8). Content Guidelines: Choose 1 book, person, and place from the list of the provided topics for each of the 2 projects. Your essay must include the following per item: Book: Your biblical book essay must include: The basic literary genre, authorship, date written, key themes, purposes, major events, and main personalities. Person: This essay must include: The dates of the character’s life, place of birth, summary of their role or positions held, defining events in their life and work, contemporaries (other biblical characters they are associated with, etc.), and their legacy. If they are a biblical author, list the related works. Setting/Place (i.e., municipality, kingdom, empire): This essay must include: The keys dates (i.e., founding, demise, etc.), clarification of the location (regional description, the relevance of the place from a biblical/Ancient Near East (ANE) perspective...
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...Bible Dictionary Project Instructions For these 2 distinct projects, imagine you are writing a series of short articles for a Bible Dictionary. As we have seen in our study, Bible dictionaries are useful tools to learn more about the books, people, and places we encounter in Scripture. Your task will be to write: 1. Three concise 200–250-word essays about a book, person, and setting/place from the Old Testament (Due at the end of Module/Week 5). 2. Three concise 200–250-word essays about a book, person, and setting/place from the New Testament (Due at the end of Module/Week 8). Content Guidelines: Choose 1 book, person, and place from the list of the provided topics for each of the 2 projects. Your essay must include the following per item: Book: Your biblical book essay must include: The basic literary genre, authorship, date written, key themes, purposes, major events, and main personalities. Person: This essay must include: The dates of the character’s life, place of birth, summary of their role or positions held, defining events in their life and work, contemporaries (other biblical characters they are associated with, etc.), and their legacy. If they are a biblical author, list the related works. Setting/Place (i.e., municipality, kingdom, empire): This essay must include: The keys dates (i.e., founding, demise, etc.), clarification of the location (regional description, the relevance of the place from a biblical/Ancient Near East (ANE) perspective...
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...BIBLE DICTIONARY PROJECT 2 CHARLIE MITCHELL BIBL 104 B-53 New Testament Bible Dictionary Project JAMES “And James the son of Zebedee and John the brother of James; and he surnamed them Boanerges, which is, Sons of thunder:” (Mark 3:17 KJV). The Book of James can be found in the twentieth Book of the New Testament, or in the division of the bible referred as the Letters of the Epistles. Twenty-one of the twenty-seven Books of the New Testament are letters (about thirty-five percent of the entire New Testament)” (Duvall, J., and Hays, J. (2008), Journey into God’s World: Your guide to understanding and applying the Bible, page 97). Scholars have noted, “James’s letter is one of the earliest (if not the earliest) books of the New Testament” (Hindson, E., and Towns, E. (2013), Illustrated Bible Survey: An Introduction, page 523). The Epistle letter is not without confusion and skepticism as to its authorship. There is much speculation as to James’s identity, since there are two mentioned as an apostle. “James the son of Zebedee and Salome (Matthew 4:21), who was martyred by Herod Agrippa, and James the son of Alphaeus (Matthew 10:3), who was perhaps the younger” (Hindson, E., Towns, E. (2013), Illustrated Bible Survey: An Introduction, pp 521-522). James, son of Mary and Joseph, half-brother of Jesus (Jewish traditionally refers to half-brother as a cousin, Galatians 1:19), wrote his letter to the around AD 40-42 to the twelve dispersed Tribes of Israel. His (James)...
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...D.Min. Project Prospectus Sharon L. Smith I. Title: Bridging the Gap: A Pilot Project Aimed at Mutually Equipping Church and Business Leaders for Kingdom Impact II. The Context: Followers of Jesus Christ who possess a divine calling, talents, and gifts to work and serve God through specific voluntary or paid vocations in the workplace face daily opportunities to impact the Kingdom of God. When believers walk by faith and obedience in the revelation that God’s divine presence and purpose is with them daily in their work lives, God empowers them to lead change that can transform lives, businesses, and even nations. Believers clearly see this truth in the lives of Abraham, Joseph, Daniel, and Nehemiah. The Great Commission (Matt. 28) commands believers to go into all the world and preach the gospel to every person. This directive includes Holy Spirit-empowered witness in the marketplace with signs, wonders, and the gifts of the Holy Spirit in operation. As His priests (1 Pet. 2:5; Rom. 12:1-2), God calls believers ordained for the twenty-first century workplace to worship and serve Him through their actions, words, and works. God’s Word calls for excellence in whatever a person does (Col. 3:17). Fruitfulness follows when believers root biblical ethics in excellence, and practice it in relationships and business decisions. Anthropologists and missiologists are observing major global shifts causing leaders to revise their understanding of the notion of culture...
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...-------1 HISTORICAL BACKGROUND---------------------------------------------------------------------------1 OBJECTIVE OF THE CURRENT EXCAVATION----------------------------------------------------3 PROGRESS AT THE SITE--------------------------------------------------------------------------------4 THE SIGNIFICANCE OF DISCOVERIES TO BIBLICAL STUDY-------------------------------5 2 Introduction/Report This report will identify the historical background of the Temple Mount located in Jerusalem. Any currently known excavations at the Temple Mount will be addressed. The objective of the current excavation will be noted. The progress of the excavation will be reported. The significance of discoveries to biblical studies will be clarified. Historical Background The Bible and the science of archaeology have identified the Temple Mount in Jerusalem as being the location of the historical Jewish Temples; with the exact location being established by God on a high hill in the Moriah mountain range north of the City of David. According to Randall J. Price there were actually three Temples, “in historical succession” located at the present location of the Temple Mount in Jerusalem; between 960 B.C. and 70 A.D. The First Temple was built by King...
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...n examining relationships, it is important to first define terminology typically associated with romance and relationships. Let us begin by defining a relationship as it stands in the dictionary. A relationship is a: 1) "romantic or passionate attachment" or 2) "the state of being related or interrelated". From this dry definition it may be concluded that a relationship may be a binding of more than one person of a friendly flavor or of romantic flavor. Becoming more specific, Webster�s Online Dictionary defines friendship as "the state of being attached to another by affection or esteem". Also friendship may be defined as "the favored companionship of people". Again this definition relates the ideas that friendship is a type of relationship in which people choose to relate because of favor or some sort of preferred attachment. Interesting is the fact that Webster�s definition links friendship with affection and self-esteem, leading the way into our inference that dating is a higher level of having a friendship with more affection. Dating is explained as to accompany, escort; court, woo another. Long-term relationships are usually considered to be a balance of dating and courting depending on the couple. The dictionary definition of courting is "to engage in social activities leading to engagement and marriage". Obviously, courting (albeit a somewhat old-fashioned and less used term) is yet a further advanced level of dating and hence a relationship. Courting appears to be reserved...
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...Bible Dictionary Project Name: Student ID Course:BIBL 104 Date: 06/20/2016 Old Testament Bible Dictionary Project: Job The book of Job is an interesting book with poetic flare. The book is also considered to be wisdom literature(Hindson & Towns, 2013). The book has no author. It is also uncertain when the book was written but theologians believe the writer preceded Moses (Hindson & Towns, 2013). Some feel the writer could have been Job, Elihu, or a contemporary of Job. The key themes in the book of Job are: death, loyalty to God, pain and suffering, questioning and doubting God, mans status before God, and friendship(Shmoop Editorial Team). The main purpose of the book of Job is to let us know that the Devil cannot harm us unless God allows it. The book of Job shows us to trust God through all situations. The main chracters in the book of Job are Job, his three friends (Eliphaz, Bilidad, and Zophar), Elihu, God, and Satan. The story in the book starts out with Job living a life of prosperity and blessings. He is upright and blamless. He has a wife and wonderful children and all is well for him. Life could not get better. He is so put together that God brags to the heavenly assembly about him. This causes Satan to challenge God about Job’s worthiness. Satan throws God a challenge that if he is allowed to destroy Job’s children and all his possesions that Job will forget all about God. God, trusting Job, gives Satan the go ahead. Satan attacks Job’s...
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...Bible Dictionary Project Name: Breanna Student ID: Course: BIBL 104 Date: 4/20/2015 Old Testament Bible Dictionary Project: Proverbs The book of Proverbs written in 950-700 BC by King Solomon and a few others, primarily focuses on the wisdom, justice, and righteousness of humanity. The author uses the literary device parallelism, which instructs the readers to read and interpret two line units instead of each single line. After Job and Psalms, Proverbs is the third Old Testament book written in Hebrew Poetry. The poetry contained in Proverbs takes many different forms, but the two major types are, discourse and pithy sayings. Discourse is mainly present in the first nine chapters of Proverbs, where they poetically argue the advantages of wisdom. Showing similarity, contrast, and, consequence, in the form of two-liners, are pithy sayings. Contrary to what some may believe, not all of the text in Proverbs is absolute truth, and readers should interpret it as principle. This particular biblical book recognizes the various circumstances of our life and gives us wise insight and instruction to live better in the eyes of God. The ideas of marriage and sexuality, the power of tongue, principles of child-rearing, personal discipline, and friendship are all concepts touched on in Proverbs (Hindson and Towns). Proverbs emphasize that listening to our elders will help us to gain wisdom and knowledge; those who choose to speak and not listen will come into trouble (12:13)...
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...Bible Dictionary Project Template Name: Stephanie Sarver Student ID: L27532575 Course: BIBL 104-D28 Date: 4/25/16 Old Testament Bible Dictionary Project: Genesis: The first of the Bible gives the overall setting and theme for God’s plan and teachings. It has two sections with the first being about creating, sin, punishment, and redemption; the second being about God’s chosen family. The author of Genesis is unknown though it is part of the Pentateuch which is referred to as the books of Moses. The date it was written is also unknown though it can be suggested the authorship was around the time of moses, that is 1440 and 1400 B.C. The first 11 chapters deal with the universal setting for Israel’s story with showing that God is the one and only creator of the whole universe. Then it shifts from the creation of everything, to the creation and plan for the first and chosen family. Sin enters the world through a serpant and man falls from God’s grace which ultimately brings hardships and punishments to all the nations. God wipes the world clean except for one family, Noah, and promises to protect them. They multiply and populate the earth only to let human desire and want bring them divine punishment at the tower of Babel. He then calls on Abraham to leave and start a new beginning with a plan to bless and redeem humanity. Jacob and Isaac, lead a new generation to carry out God’s plan. Esau’s sons Joseph was sold into slavery only to have God bring him to power in...
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...Bible Dictionary Project Name: Beverly Aguilar Student ID: 25739993 Course:Bible 104 Date:2/14/14 Old Testament Bible Dictionary Project: Abraham: The book of Genesis is in which we find the story of Abraham. The Author of Genesis is Moses. Genesis talks about the beginning of our existence, to be exact the Israelites. It’s an introduction of what God created. Abraham was married to a lady named Sara. She was not able to give birth until her late 90’s. She made Abraham have a son with Hagar, their Egyptian slave. Later god told Sara that he would give her a son named Issac, Sara Laughed at god. Thus, Abraham always believed in god he had he’s son Issac. Abraham is a very intriguing man due to the fact he not only was willing to sacrifice his only son, who he waited a whole lifetime to have. He was willing to sacrifice Issac his son all for the love he had in god. This is why Abraham was a man of faith, how a mans love to a great almighty god could be shown. Although this was just a test from god to him, he did not kill his son but god blessed him even more with multiplying his family. Abraham’s birth isn’t established in the bible, but his date of existing is 2166-1991 BC. Abraham was first named Abram, which means “Great Father,” and laer god gave him the name of Abraham which means “Father of Multitude.” Abraham appears in other books from the bible as well. Abraham was a man of faith. Genesis: Genesis along with the first four books; Exodus, Levitucus...
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...BIBLE DICTIONARY PROJECT Alonzo Anderson Bible 104 BIBLE DICTIONARY PROJECT Jesus Jesus was born December 25 1 BC in the city David, Bethlehem, to parents Mary and Joseph according to scripture he had four younger brothers and at least two sisters. (Mark 6:3) Jesus was raised in the small rural town of Nazareth, where His adoptive father, Joseph, taught him to use the tools of a carpenter. It was hard work, work requiring much manual labor, skill, an eye for construction and body that could bear up to hours of sweating in the hot sun. It produced hands made coarse from touching rough wood. For many years Jesus worked in the trade of being a carpenter. ("Who Is This Man Jesus?") When Jesus was age 30 he went out to find John the Baptist, John refused to baptize Jesus saying he was unworthy to touch the Son of God. In his thirties, Jesus began his public teaching and display of recorded miracles, yet still never travelled more than 200 miles from his birthplace. Over a three year period, despite his efforts to keep a low profile, Jesus' reputation spread nationwide. The Roman governors and rulers of Israel's provinces and the leaders of the Jewish people (the religious counsels) took note of him. (Jesus Central, 2009) On a Thursday night Jesus met with his twelve disciples in Jerusalem for the Passover meal (The Last Supper). Jesus told his disciples that he must die soon because it was Gods will that he give his life for his friends. Later that night while Jesus was...
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...Bible Dictionary Project Name: Kimberly Roach Course: BIBL104 Date: July 3, 2015 New Testament Bible Dictionary Project: Romans The apostle Paul wrote the book of Romans. The literary genre of Romans is an epistle. Paul wrote Romans to the Christians in Rome, while he was in Corinth. “The teaching of Romans is not only crucial for Christian theology, but the greatest revivals and reformations throughout the history of Christianity have resulted from an increased understanding and application of the teaching of this epistle”(Hindson and Towns). Romans is a detailed teaching outlining the essentials of the faith. The entire book of Romans explains the need for salvation, and how God is able to give us righteousness. Romans tells us the purpose and need for the death of Jesus, and the unity of Jews, and Gentiles that comes by faith in Christ. The Book of Romans shows us the glorious grace of God. The main purpose of Romans is to teach the truth of Gods grace, and that if God is for us, who can be against us? The gospel of Romans is the good news of what Jesus has done for us. In it we see the righteousness of God that comes by faith, which is direct contrast with what the Pharisees believe. Thinking their works would get them to heaven. Romans also tells us we are to be doers of word, as were Priscilla and Aquila who were there for Paul. Paul Paul did not start out as a follower of Jesus, in fact a lot of the letters he has written he calls himself the chief...
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...years until I came to Central Cristian College in 2011. Japan is a country that has only one race; therefore, I seldom had a chance to face to racism. According to Oxford Dictionaries, racism means, “The belief that all members of each race possess characteristics, abilities, or qualities specific to that race, especially so as to distinguish it as inferior or superior to another race or races.” Ever since I came to the U.S., I have always been wondering why people like to discriminate against others especially among different races. As I grew up, I have learned naturally that racism is not justified towards anyone because we are all created equal. The question I would like to pose for this research project is, “What does the Bible say about racism?” First, the Bible says, “So God created human beings in his own image. In the image of God he created them; male and female he created them” (NLT Study Bible, Gen. 1:27). In the beginning of the Old Testament, Genesis says clearly that God created us in his own image. God created only male and female, but He did not create us impartially. When He created us, there was no black or white, Hispanic or Asian. Therefore, I think is not God’s will for us to discriminate against each other by the differences of our colors, cultures or where we are from. Secondly, in the Bible, God does not make distinctions based on physical or social attribution. When the prophet Samuel was sent by God to anoint the next king of Israel, Samuel was initially...
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...grade will be reduced. You may not work with anyone else on this project – it must be your work alone. Also, please be careful not to plagiarize. Look up the article or chapter on Amos in (if you need help finding these, ask a librarian!): 1. Dictionary of the Old Testament Prophets (IVP, 2012) 2. Zondervan Encyclopedia of the Bible (Zondervan, 2009). Do not use the older 1975 edition. 3. An Introduction to the Old Testament written by Dillard and Longman. Please use the second edition. (Zondervan, 2006) 4. Your textbook Using the sources above, answer the following questions. Each answer should be a complete paragraph (about 150 words). Make sure to cite the sources that you use by using a parenthetical reference after the source (book, page number). For example: (Dillard and Longman, 234). Note, each question is worth 20 points. You should use multiple sources for the answer to each question and use all the sources in your paper. 1. What is one authorship theory? 2. What is another authorship theory? 3. What are three things that we know about the prophet (as a person)? Hint: in the dictionary and encyclopedia you could look up the article on the person. 4. What was the occasion of the prophecy (as best we can tell)? 5. What is one major theological theme of the book? Additional Instructions: 1. Please make sure to number and label each part of your paper. 2. You do not need a title page (or works cited), but make sure you...
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...Name: Myles E. Owens Jr. Student ID: L26434425 Course: BIBL 104 B52 Date: 10/05/2014 New Testament Bible Dictionary Project: I Corinthians The First Corinthians was written in historical literary genre (Zodhiates, 2001). The apostle Paul wrote the First Corinthians around 50 A.D. in the city of Ephesus. (Acts 19:10), (Acts 20:31) (Mitchell, 2004). Following three years of preaching the gospel, he wrote first Corinthians and sent it to the church in Corinth by Stephanus, Fortunatus and Achaicus (Beitzel, 2009). His missionary tactic was to establish a church in the main towns, recognizing that rehabilitated guests, migrant salesmen, and seamen would spread the holy word (Mitchell, 2004). The home church was responsible for the evangelism and discipleship of their area (Zodhiates, 2001). The Apostle Paul, Timothy and also Chloe were the main personalities of this book (Mitchell, 2004). Paul’s drive in transcribing this letter to the church in Corinth was to talk to and modify the wickedness and separations happening amongst them (Zodhiates, 2001). Paul obtained information of difficulties in the church in Corinth and consequently dealt with their troubles and disarrays, “there are quarrels among you” (1 Corinthians 1:11). Paul requests disciples to ''consider your calling'' (1 Corinthians 1:26-30). He uncovers the wickedness that was happening in the church at Corinth; they consist of lawsuits against other followers, sexual debauchery, problems of marriage (Zodhiates...
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