The Essenes were a group of people who followed a strict religious lifestyle of Judaism during the second century BCE to the first century AD. The major source for information about the Essenes was recorded by the Jewish historiographer Josephus in his writing called The Jewish War, which was written between 73-75 CE. [...]

Paul near the end of his third missionary journey wrote the Romans in the New Testament. His main goals for writing church epistles were to instruct the church about central tenets of Christianity and to encourage Christians to live righteously. Even though Paul never visited Rome, he was familiar with the church located there. [...]

Reponse to comments:
Kory Twaites: Thanks for the comment. I had my ups and downs with these kids, but I’m determine to help them change for the better. Yes it’s true that usually in school, grades aren’t an accurate measurement of one’s intelligence. it seems that now what matters more is for [...]

According to Bibles for Dummies, the word Prophet comes from the Greek word “prophetes”, which means to speak on behalf of another. Therefore, biblical prophets are messengers who spoke on behalf of God. The Hebrew word for prophet is “nabi”, which means one who is called. In the Hebrew Bible, the prophets [...]

Israel wanted a monarchy because of a lack of suitable priests, judges, and prophets who were in line to rule. At the time, Eli was the leader of the Israelites. Upon his death, all the political and religious responsibilities were ceded to Samuel. He was a great leader for Israel. But [...]

The ten people whom I have commented are:
1. Rhonda Nguyen
2. Mong Truc Hoang
3. Dat Le
4. Italia Riley
5. Diondra Demolle
6. Randy Colvin
7. Tina Poolson
8. Alexandra Alcorn
9. Larry Tero
10. Lauren Carter
The Kingdom of God is also referred to as the Kingdom of Heaven. This kingdom includes everything that God reigns over, which is basically everything. There are two perspectives to the Kingdom of God. [...]

Introductions to Biblical Studies was a challenging class I have to admit. Never before have I’ve been required to write 1500 words a week, which is the equivalent of a five page paper. Coming into this class, I knew that it would be difficult, but I would be able to survive through it [...]

My overall grade for my blog entries and project should not be based on these criteria. For my blog entries, I believe that I understood the course material enough to write about it. Although, I didn’t understand some of the text, at least I tried to make sense of it. For the [...]

In the Bible, the books of Joshua, Judges, and Ruth account Israel’s history from the time of Moses’ death until the beginning of monarchy. After Moses’ death, Joshua led the Israelites successfully into the Promised Land, conquering and defeating its inhabitants. After Joshua, Israel was ruled by judges. The Book of Joshua [...]

My project seems to be going ok. The children that I’m tutoring seem to not have nay motivation in wanting to learn. They get quite distracted during our sessions, and it’s hard to try to make it fun for them. Most of the time I’m usually just helping them with their homework. [...]

Response to Comments for Week 4
citizenavalon: I haven’t found a place to recycle paper yet, which I think is much needed. Most parks at this time aren’t open, well at least not the one that I’m close to. I don’t think the recycling systems for Orleans Parish or Jefferson Parish are functioning. [...]

Ten people I commented:
1.Kory Twaites
2. Tara McFadden
3. Randy Colvin
4.Carissa Williams
5.Italia Riley
6. Mong Truc Hoang
7.Tina Poolson
8.Michael Lievers
9.Elaina Leonard
10.Brock Williams

Tiglath-Pileser was an Assyrian king who reigned from 1115 BCE to 1076 BCE. He went on a conquest to drive out all the people whom he believed foreigners in his land. His first success as a conqueror was against the Moschi, which were Meshechs who inhabited some Assyrian territory near the Upper Euphrates [...]

In week 2, I blogged about three problems I recognized facing the world. They are pollution, lack of family support, and human apathy. As I thought about them more, each topic deals with so many aspects in life. How could I manage to change the world? And also trying to change [...]

There are many problems in this world, which are in need of being address. This includes political issues that deal with war, terrorism, and pollution to the daily life collisions with greed, human apathy, and ignorance. The three biggest problems that face this world daily are pollution, lack of support systems, and human [...]

Hurricane Katrina came unexpectedly for me, considering the fact that I hardly keep up with any events in the real world. That Friday of August 26, 2005, was the end of the first week of the Fall 2005 semester. While I was going home, I thought to myself of how this school year [...]