Need help on a topic for a research paper on the Old Testament. Anyone have any good ideas?

Answer 1

Women's rights, haha!!! Were the Jews sexist? How did women fare in Israel as compared to other countries of the the time?
You could look at law.

Or Ruth
Esther wouldn't count because they weren't in Israel obviously.

I've been wanting to research this same topic that's why I suggest it.

Answer 2

The term Old Testament refers to all versions and translations of the Hebrew Bible and is the first major part of the Bible used by Christians. It is usually divided by Judaism into the categories of: law Torah, prophecy Neviim, and writings Kthuvim (history, poetry, wisdom books), as denoted by the acronym Tanakh.

The Protestant Old Testament is for the most part identical with the Jewish Tanakh. The differences between the Tanakh and the Protestant Old Testament are minor, dealing only with the arrangement and number of the books. For example, while the Tanakh considers 1 Kings and 2 Kings to be one book, the Protestant Old Testament considers them to be two books. Similarly Ezra and Nehemiah are considered to be one book by the Tanakh.

The differences between the Tanakh and other versions of the Old Testament such as the Samaritan Pentateuch, the Syriac, Latin, Greek and other works, are greater as some include books not in the Tanakh and even in the books included, some have sections that the others do not. For a full discussion of these differences see Books of the Bible.

All of these books were written before the birth of Jesus of Nazareth, whose teaching and immediate disciples' deeds and teachings are the subject of the subsequent Jewish writings of Christian New Testament. The scriptures used by Jesus, a Jew, were according to Luke 24:44-49: "the law of Moses, and in the prophets, and in the psalms ... the scriptures". According to most Bible scholars, the Old Testament was composed between the 5th century BC and the 2nd century BC, though parts of it, such as parts of the Torah, and the Song of Deborah (Judges 5), probably date back much earlier.




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Answer 3

How about the 10 Commandments ? Most people think that since it's in old testament, they're not important anymore. They often forgot that even Jesus using the Law to witness to someone (The rich man, woman at the well, etc).
As Apostle Paul said in Galatians 3:19-24, that God's Law is the school master to bring us ti Christ.
Romans 7:7 "I would not have known what sin was except through the Law"

Answer 4

There are 66 chapters in Isaiah and 66 books in the Bible and they correspond in subject and nature.

Ezekiel 1 presents the throne of God. This is the key to understanding the pattern of God's works and chronology.

The Pentateuch is five books, there is an equidistant spacing phenomenon spelling the word TORAH in the first two books going toward Leviticus, and in the last two books going backward toward Leviticus. The tetragrammaton (name of God) YHVH occurs in the center book, Leviticus. Thus this also follows the pattern of Ezekiel 1.

Or just wait a few years and ask Jesus when he returns.

Answer 5

How Does Genesis Set The Groundwork For the Theme of the Bible--title
Explain what the Theme of the Bible is
Show how Satan's temptation of Eve sets the groundwork
Highlight the fact that God immediately presents the solution
etc.
etc.

Answer 6

Or, you could do one on why we dont need the old Testament ten commandments anymore since The New Testament took the Old Testaments place when Jesus fullfilled it with His one time sacrifice.

Answer 7

You can go back to the book of Leviticus and tie in how the offerings and sacrifices they offered up all pointed to Christ. For example, When the romans hung people on a cross after a while they could come and break their legs causing them to suffocate. However, they did not break Jesus legs. Why? Because in the Old Testement, when they offered up a lamb, it had to be without blemish and none of it's bones could be broken, just like Jesus. The lamb of course was symbolic of Jesus.

Answer 8

there is one point in the old testament, i think it's in the description of the tower of babel, where the bible says that all the people were divided up into different languages before the tower of babel, but then it tells the story of the tower of babel, and says that god split up everyone into different languages.

i thought it was a funny contradiction. the first mention is only a few pages before the story of babel.

Answer 9

The faith of the Shunammite Woman. She would not give up on her son.
II Kings 4.
I 13;8a
12-7-6
Happy Hanukkah, Merry Christmas

Answer 10

The tabernacle is an interesting subject. It has lots of symbols in it's furniture, structure, evrything about it represents something to do with salvation. Exodus

Or what about God turned back time.