by admin | Nov 25, 2022 | Religious studies
The are two parts to this project.
Please use all the resources provided. Please do not add questions to the paper but number each answer. Thank you
Part 1 on one-page
answer the following questions.
The Hebrew name for the book of Psalms is Tehillim, or “Praises.” Perhaps this is what we might expect from a book that concludes its very final chapter, “Let everything that has breath praise the LORD! Praise the LORD!!” (Ps 150:6). It often strikes modern readers as shocking when they find out the single most prolific genre in the Psalter is “lament.” A lament is basically an expression of woe, a realistic examination of the writer’s tough situation and a raw depiction of the author’s desperation. And get this: This is the liturgical book of Israel! They sang these songs, often in corporate worship! With this in mind, answer the following questions:
1. Why do you suppose there are more laments than anything else in a book titled “Praises”?
2. Read Psalm 13 for a short example of a lament. How does this expression of lament in the Psalms differ from modern expressions of laments, even from your own laments?
3. Think about your life experience. First, has your background encouraged or discouraged lamenting in your life? Why?
4. What do you think would be the impact of regularly incorporating lament into your life? What would it look like? What might be some challenges?
PART TWO, SECOND PAGE
a) What aspect of the Kingdom is in view this week? Define and describe it briefly.
b) What is a quick synopsis of this part of the storyline? Summarize the chapter.
c) How does it seem that this aspect of the Kingdom fits into and flows from the previous parts of the story from the previous weeks?
d) How does this chapter contribute to the significance of seeing the holistic big picture of the Bible?
Read the following: Let me know if I need to provide the literature. Thank you
Introduction to Old Testament by Carson, D.A and Douglas Moo 103-188
God Big Picture by Roberts, Vaughan 93-110: Chapter 5 (the Prophesied Kingdom)
Psalms 1-10, 22-24, 150
Proverbs 1-3, 15-16, 31
Ecclesiastes 1-2, 12
Song of Solomon 1-8
Job 1-3; 40-42
Lamentations 5
Ezra 1-2, 7
Nehemiah 1-4, 13
Esther 1-10
Daniel 1-6
by admin | Nov 24, 2022 | Religious studies
For the presentation, students must choose one hero to examine (either a hero from mythology or from popular culture like from a TV series, movie, etc.). Then, students will choose one or two stages of Campbell’s theory and explain how their chosen hero fits within those chosen elements of Campbell’s theory.
Presentations should be kept around 3-4 minutes in length – focused on the content
cannot be from the matrix, harry potter, Percy Jackson, hunger game or Heracles.
by admin | Nov 23, 2022 | Religious studies
Instructions :
Develop a 10 question survey. Then go to a mall or someplace where you can survey five people that you do not know (and you do not know to be a Christian). The survey should have thoughtful, apologetic-oriented questions that get at a person’s worldview beliefs. You will turn in the five surveys and a 3-4 page paper (double-spaced, normal margins, 12-point font) reflecting on what you learned from the experience.
Please create the ten question survey and just act like you asked 5 people and create your own fake survey results. Then write a 3 page paper on it. Thank you.
by admin | Nov 22, 2022 | Religious studies
My Summary of the Interpretive Issue of Literary Dependence and Redaction: Most scholars think that early Christian authors both inside and out of the NT canon used each other’s writings as sources, which they then rewrote or redacted. For instance, if Mark, Matthew, and Luke share the same words, sentence after sentence, that cannot be accidental; there must be some literary dependence between them. Yet, for all their verbatim agreement, the synoptics also differ from one another even within the triple tradition they share. If Mark features something, say, that makes Jesus appear relatively limited in knowledge or power, something that is not featured in Matthew, then odds are Mark wrote first, and Matthew has subtracted from Mark, since the general tendency over time would be to make Jesus appear more omniscient and omnipotent, not less. There is hardly any debate in scholarship concerning Markan priority and the dependence of Matthew and Luke on Mark. But the jury is still out when it comes to: Luke’s relationship to Matthew; John’s relationship to the synoptics; and the relationships of the non-canonical Gospels of Thomas and Peter to the canonical gospels. The whole business is complicated by questions of lost sources and orality (see Brown p.38 for his “realistic conclusion” about the complexity of the synoptic problem, which applies elsewhere too).
My Paper Prompts: While you read, please have these prompts in mind and prepare for Critical Engagement Three by taking notes on whatever info will help you formulate an initial response. The prompts are:
• In light of your examination of the evidence in the assigned reading, do you concur that Matthew and Luke used Mark as a source? If so, how did they rewrite Mark, and for what reasons? If you don’t think Matthew and Luke are dependent on Mark, why don’t you think so, and how would you account for the evidence?
You Should Include Citation in Your Notes: You’ll want to include specific chapter- and verse-numbers in your notes, so that you’re ready to cite passages from the NT in your Critical Engagement. About the Gospel of Thomas, it is not divided into chapters and verses; it is divided into sayings. And so you can just cite it by saying-number/s. The Gospel of Peter is divided in verses but not chapters because only a fragment survives.
You must ONLY use quotes from the following attachments which I will upload!!
by admin | Nov 22, 2022 | Religious studies
Read Chapt. 8 of the Tibi book. Tibi, Bassam (2012) Islamism and Islam, Yale University Press, New Haven & London
Read Chapt. 5 of the Aaron book. Aaron, David (2008) In Their Own Words, Voices of Jihad, Rand: Santa Monica, California
by admin | Nov 22, 2022 | Religious studies
My Summary of the Interpretive Issue of Literary Dependence and Redaction: Most scholars think that early Christian authors both inside and out of the NT canon used each other’s writings as sources, which they then rewrote or redacted. For instance, if Mark, Matthew, and Luke share the same words, sentence after sentence, that cannot be accidental; there must be some literary dependence between them. Yet, for all their verbatim agreement, the synoptics also differ from one another even within the triple tradition they share. If Mark features something, say, that makes Jesus appear relatively limited in knowledge or power, something that is not featured in Matthew, then odds are Mark wrote first, and Matthew has subtracted from Mark, since the general tendency over time would be to make Jesus appear more omniscient and omnipotent, not less. There is hardly any debate in scholarship concerning Markan priority and the dependence of Matthew and Luke on Mark. But the jury is still out when it comes to: Luke’s relationship to Matthew; John’s relationship to the synoptics; and the relationships of the non-canonical Gospels of Thomas and Peter to the canonical gospels. The whole business is complicated by questions of lost sources and orality (see Brown p.38 for his “realistic conclusion” about the complexity of the synoptic problem, which applies elsewhere too).
My Paper Prompts: While you read, please have these prompts in mind and prepare for Critical Engagement Three by taking notes on whatever info will help you formulate an initial response. The prompts are:
• In light of your examination of the evidence in the assigned reading, do you concur that Matthew and Luke used Mark as a source? If so, how did they rewrite Mark, and for what reasons? If you don’t think Matthew and Luke are dependent on Mark, why don’t you think so, and how would you account for the evidence?
You Should Include Citation in Your Notes: You’ll want to include specific chapter- and verse-numbers in your notes, so that you’re ready to cite passages from the NT in your Critical Engagement. About the Gospel of Thomas, it is not divided into chapters and verses; it is divided into sayings. And so you can just cite it by saying-number/s. The Gospel of Peter is divided in verses but not chapters because only a fragment survives.
You must ONLY use quotes from the following attachments which I will upload!!
