Convenant at Sinai. (Examines the similarities that exist between the Convenant and historical treaties of biblical times, specifically the Hittite Treaties.)
Date Submitted: 11/28/2002 05:00:54
Category: / Society & Culture / Religion
Length: 6 pages (1593 words)
Category: / Society & Culture / Religion
Length: 6 pages (1593 words)
The term "covenant" which originally meant "shackle" or "chain" derived from the Hebrew word, berit. It later came to be known as any form of binding agreement. There are a number of examples of covenants in the Bible (1). Abraham had made a covenant alliance with the Canaanites (Gn 14:13). Isaac made a covenant with Abimelech concerning water rights (Gn 26:26ff), and Jacob had once made a covenant with Laban (Gn 31:44ff), to mention just a few (2). …
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…Theology, (London, Burns & Oates, 1981) 308.
4. Brown, R., Fitzmyer, J., Murphy, R., The Jerome Biblical Commentary, (Dublin,
Geoffrey Chapman Ltd, 1968) 56.
5. McKenzie, J., Ibid. 154.
6. Barton, J., Muddiman, J., The Oxford Biblical Commentary, (New York, Oxford
University Press, 2001) 68.
7. Boadt, L., Ibid. 178.
8. Boadt, L., Ibid. 179.
9. Pritchard, J., Ancient Near Eastern Texts, (Egyptian and Hittite Treaties) 203.
10. Boadt, L., Ibid. 170.
11 Brown, R., Ibid. 58.
12. Orchard, B., Sutcliffe, E. Fuller, R., Russell, R. A Catholic Commentary on the Holy
Scripture (London, Thomas Nelson
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