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    The Ancient Israelites settled in the land of Canaan sometime between 1300 and 1200 BC. The Israelites traced their descents to the father of many nations called Abram‚ several centuries before‚ who had migrated to Canaan from Mesopotamia (Britton‚2017). From the beginning of time God had to deal with sinful ways from his chosen generation. God was not pleased for he gave them all they wanted but yet they were still unrighteous. God has a heart for all those who chose to live according to how he

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    perceived as a loving Father who is nonetheless infinitely majestic‚ sometimes revealing divine power when the children need chastising. Texts:Jewish teachings are known as Torah. In its narrowest sense‚ Torah refers to the Five Books of Moses. Pentateuch‚ Tanakh‚ Talmud‚ Midrash‚ Ritual and practice: A major Jewish spiritual practice has been daily scriptural study. Boys are ritually circumcised when they are eight days old‚ to honor the seal of God’s commandment to Abraham. Orthodox Jews consider

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    Literature a. Hebrew Bible i. 24 books in 3 parts (Law/Torah‚ Prophets/Navim‚ Writings/Kethuvim)‚ ii. begins with creation of universe‚ begin of Jews‚ ends with restoration (hope) and rebuilding of new J state Christian OT iii. 39 books‚ 4 parts (Pentateuch‚ History‚ Poetry and Wisdom‚ Prophecy) iv. begins with creation of universe‚ begin of Jews‚ end with prophecy (book of Malachi) b. Types of lit. in TNK i. Historical‚ legal‚ poetry‚ prophetic oracle ii. Myth = stories that communicate truths about

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    Despicable me is a movie that was directed by two different producers. A summary about that movie is a guy named Gru and he adopt three little girls at first probably from a foster house it really doesn’t say where. At first he just wants the girls so they can help him solve his mission which is trying to enter to the enemy’s house. He makes it possible by telling the girls to sell their Girl Scouts cookies to him which they accomplish to do and his little robots get into the house and try to solve

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    Running Head: THE FIVE MAIN LEGAL SYSTEM OF THE WORLD Five Main Legal Systems Dailyn Perez February 6‚ 2012 Law of Contracts J. Giannell In the world there are 5 main legal systems‚ common law‚ civil law‚ Muslim law‚ customary law‚ and Talmudic law. Common law is the law developed by judges through decisions of courts and similar tribunals rather than through legislative statutes or executive branch action. It is a legal system that gives great precedential weight to common law‚ the principle

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    In order to better describe the Passover‚ Alexander compares it to Aaronic priest consecration elsewhere in the Pentateuch (205)‚ as well as Jesus’ death (206). It also helps to understand the Passover in the context of the early Israelites. The Passover took place during the period of the Exodus‚ around 1200 BCE. Prior to the Exodus‚ the Israelites were being oppressed

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    The Bible was the first book ever printed. God had written “The Ten Commandments” on tablets of stone‚ we can assume mankind must have had previous knowledge of writing. even today Archaeologists uncover ancient tablets with markings‚ Some of the first were unearthed at Lachish and Tel-el-Amarna. as Mankind moved forward they began writing on Animal skins and the inner bark of the Linden tree. Moses is credited with and was told by the Lord to write the first 5 books in our Holy Bible between 1491-1451

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    Chapter 7 starts off with the explaining of Hebrew Poetry‚ in which you are able to classify lines in four types; synonymous parallelism‚ antithetical parallelism‚ constructive parallelism‚ and climatic parallelism (Ehrman‚ Pg.166-167). The book of Psalms is the best known book of poetry in the Bible (Ehrman‚ Pg.168). The word Psalm is originally from the word “psallo” which means to pluck the string of an instrument‚ but eventually came to mean “to sing with accompaniment” (Ehrman‚ Pg. 168). Psalms

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    Laws of Moses. In this essay‚ I will explore the Laws of Moses. Primarily‚ I will outline what justice means and review how justice is portrayed in the Pentateuch through my extensive study and review of the books of Genesis‚ Exodus‚ and Leviticus. I will analyse the fundamental importance of justice and note where it is evident throughout the Pentateuch. The idea of Justice is deeply connected to the Torah. Justice can be described as what is right or normal. The quality of fairness of a law accompanied

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    According to the book “Four Spiritualities”‚ Judaism correlates with Karma Yoga‚ also referred to as The Way of The Hand. This specific pathway is characterized by words such action and work. The religions categorized under this pathway keep themselves busy‚ but not useless work. All that they do has purpose and direction. Furthermore‚ it is important that each person do their work. As stated by Richardson‚ “If we have performed the right action for us to do‚ that is all that matters‚ not whether

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