The Old Testament By Israelite People - 2063 Words

Adnan Alruwaili THL217 Dr. Brubacher Sep, 23, 2016 2,107 words Paper for Unit One The Old Testament, the Torah has beautiful chronological order and well organized as well that makes the readers to read it easily because it is streamline and in order moves from story to story. In this I will discuss all the topics of the unit one that we have studies in the class till date regarding moral, main themes and social ethics. Moreover, I will compare some of the famous stories form the Holy Quran and the Old Testament. For the very well understanding of the stories present in the OT Old Testament, YHWH, Tanakh first of all we need to understand some terms like such as social justice, force and violence. Over two thousand years, the Old†¦show more content†¦The Latter Prophets and the Former Prophets are including in the list of the Prophets and it presented by the N and N stands for Nevi’im. The writings and Kethuvim presents by the K (Harris and Platzner). The name of the God represent by the YHWH in Hebrew. To using the power for the something ethical stands as force simply. To force someone for to do unethical things while violence. Social justice stands for the right and normal (Brubacher). We have learned the story of creation is presents in the Book of Genesis. Sabbath represents that there is only six days of creation and the seventh days is meant for rest. The darkness, heaven, lights, humans, earth, Adam and Eve all of them is created by the God. After reading this the lesson is learnt that there should a one day of the rest for the social justice and the workers. It is clearly explained that creating Adam before Even does not mean that the males are dominant over female. After reading the Bible readers create a lot of misinterpretation and misunderstandings about many things like there is lot of superiority to Adam or Eve in the bible. A lot of misunderstanding and misinterpretation of the Bible comes from readers who think Adam or Eve has superiority in the Bible (Brubacher). In the Book of Genesis â€Å"So God created humankind in his image, in the image of God he created them; male and female he created them† (Gen. 1:27 NRSV). The interesting scene we noticed in the story of the Eden Garden. It is