"The Poisonwood Bible" Essays and Research Papers

Sort By:
Satisfactory Essays
Good Essays
Better Essays
Powerful Essays
Best Essays
Page 26 of 50 - About 500 Essays
  • Good Essays

    Question: "What does the Bible say to do with a rebellious child?" Answer: The child who exhibits a rebellious streak may be doing so for a variety of reasons. Harsh‚ unloving‚ and critical parenting will nearly always result in rebellion of some sort. Even the most compliant child will rebel—inwardly or outwardly—against such treatment. Naturally‚ this type of parenting is to be avoided. In addition‚ a certain amount of rebellion against parents is natural in teenagers who are slowly pulling

    Premium New Testament Parent Childhood

    • 987 Words
    • 4 Pages
    Good Essays
  • Powerful Essays

    The woman with the alabaster Jar - reply to the editor SC208 Women in the New Testament Kim Stephen-Pope The following is a critical study of a story of the woman with the alabaster jar. I intend to look at this story in the gospel with a new fresh microscope‚ a new vision of analysis that has been emerging over the last thirty years. Putting aside the historical-critical approach I am looking at this story through a reader-response or narrative criticism focus. I realize that approachs of

    Premium Gospel of Luke New Testament Jesus

    • 2458 Words
    • 7 Pages
    Powerful Essays
  • Best Essays

    Critical Analysis of a Bible

    • 2996 Words
    • 12 Pages

    In The Anchor Bible Dictionary. Edited by David Noel Freedman et al.‚ vol 5‚ 96-99. New York: Doubleday‚ 1992. Davies W.D. and Dale C. Allison. Matthew: A Shorter Commentary. London: T & T Clark International‚ 2004. Mays‚ James L.‚ ed. Harper’s Bible Commentary. San Francisco: Harper and Row‚ 1988. Nolland‚ John. The Gospel of Matthew‚ The New International Greek Testament Commentary. Grand Rapids: Eerdmans‚ 2005. Swanson‚ Dennis M. “Centurion.” In Eerdmans Dictionary of the Bible. Edited by David

    Premium Jesus Gospel of Matthew

    • 2996 Words
    • 12 Pages
    Best Essays
  • Good Essays

    We take for granted the little luxuries in life. Items such as showers‚ socks‚ toothbrushes seem normal for us to have. What we do not realize is that in 2012 there were nearly 633‚782 homeless people in the United States who would have really appreciated those hot showers or that clean toothbrush. Many people are not as fortunate as we are‚ and we should thank God for that. "He who gives to the poor will lack nothing‚ but he who closes his eyes to them receives many curses." Proverbs 28:27. God

    Premium Homelessness Poverty Homeless shelter

    • 604 Words
    • 3 Pages
    Good Essays
  • Good Essays

    Throughout the Bible as/in Literature there are many characters who undergo some sort of suffering. A character that specifically sticks out is Eve‚ the mother of all living things. While Eve is one of the first people to live on the earth‚ she is also the first to experience great suffering that she will remember‚ and pay the price for the rest of her life. Eve’s suffering is significant in the following three ways: experiencing great labor in childbearing‚ desiring her husband‚ and being permanently

    Premium Adam and Eve Woman Garden of Eden

    • 677 Words
    • 3 Pages
    Good Essays
  • Good Essays

    Clothing and how girls/women are to dress is definitely not a grey area in the Bible. In I Timothy 2:9 and10 we are told what to adorn ourselves with. “I also want women to dress modestly‚ with decency and propriety‚ not with braided hair or gold or pearls or expensive clothes but with good works‚ appropriate for women who profess to worship God.” What a beautiful sight it is to see a lady with great modesty! Not just on the inside but also in what she wears! I have a few such special women of God

    Premium Woman Gender Clothing

    • 472 Words
    • 2 Pages
    Good Essays
  • Good Essays

    Bible Dictionary Project

    • 672 Words
    • 3 Pages

    References: Towns‚ E. H. (1996). Illustrated Bible Survey. Nashville: B&H Publishing Group.

    Premium Abraham Book of Ruth Book of Genesis

    • 672 Words
    • 3 Pages
    Good Essays
  • Good Essays

    bacillus that causes tuberculosis. The reason Leprosy is also known as Hansen’s disease‚ is because it was first identified in 1874 by a Norwegian physician named Gerhard Henrik Armeur Hansen. Leprosy appears in both the Old and New Testaments. In the bible Leprosy was not the disease that is recognized now‚ but as various physical conditions that were nothing like the disease. A punishment from God was what these conditions were considered to be. The victim was said to be in a state of defilement.

    Premium Tuberculosis Infectious disease Infection

    • 492 Words
    • 2 Pages
    Good Essays
  • Good Essays

    and lastly some of the animals are given the gift of speech. A few incongruence exist‚ however. The children‚ the cabby‚ and the witch all exist before the beginning of Aslan’s world. They are there in the nothingness. Man was created last in the bible‚ and created in God’s image. Man in Narnia is not created in the image of Aslan. The most vitally different part of the Narnia creation story is Lewis’s removal of some of the unpleasantness of the story of Eden. The original sin never actually

    Premium Old Testament Bible The Chronicles of Narnia

    • 643 Words
    • 3 Pages
    Good Essays
  • Powerful Essays

    Inductive Bible Study

    • 3315 Words
    • 14 Pages

    dholloway3@liberty.edu Douglas Holloway Due by Monday at Midnight of the end of Module / Week #8 Name: Best Email Address: BIBL 350 – Inductive Bible Study Assignments for Submission #4 Assignment 19-4: Deuteronomy 22:8 “When you build a new house‚ make a parapet around your roof so that you may not bring the guilt of bloodshed on your house if someone falls from the roof.” (1) Study the text and make as many observations as you can. List the observations in the space

    Premium New Testament Jesus Old Testament

    • 3315 Words
    • 14 Pages
    Powerful Essays
Page 1 23 24 25 26 27 28 29 30 50