1.02 Monotheistic Religions In what ways is the Holy Land an important site for all three monotheistic faiths? The Holy land is important to members of the Jewish, Christian, and Islamic religion because they have lived on the Holy land for generations and have important religious sites located here. The land is holy for Christians because this was where God’s son Jesus was born, crucified and where he resurrected from the dead. For Jews, it contains many Jewish synagogues and this land was promised to them by Yahweh. After a number of Jews were enslaved in Egypt and once freed, Moses helped them escape through the dessert and after over 40 years of traveling in the dessert they finally made it to the promise land by Yahweh which was Canaan.
Summary of the Time Period, Author’s Focus, and Purpose In the article “The Labor Problem at Jamestown, 1607-18,” written by Edmund S. Morgan, Jamestown had a major problem with labor. The citizens of Jamestown were lazy and wouldn’t work for their food, because their only intention was to look for gold. They’d rather play games than work in the field. It wasn’t until John Smith made them plant corn and force them to do labor for six hours before the citizens put their butt into gear. Eventually, the citizens grew tired of this and forced Indians to do their labor for them.
The Nile was an oasis in the desert for the people of Egypt. Now that you know the basics, let’s take the time to answer our real question. There is no doubt the Nile shaped Ancient Egypt, but in what ways? The next paragraphs will talk about how the Nile impacted worship, workforce, and trade and transportation. Let’s begin!
In 1605-1612, the colonists experienced the longest drought (Doc B). Because of the lack of rain, they weren’t able to grow crops (Doc B). The seasons also caused diseases to spread (Doc E). The occupations of the colonists contributed to the colonist dying. They brought gentlemen, rich men that didn’t work with their hands, and they wanted other people to build their houses and hunt for their food (Doc C).
Summary The story of “Noah and the Great Flood” (Gn 6-9) takes place outside the Garden of Eden around 2400 BCE. Noah, the ninth-generation descendent of Adam, lived in a time when “The Earth was corrupt before God”. (Gn 6:11) This grieves the God of Israel, so he decides to destroy what he has created, but Noah found favor in the deity’s eyes because Noah “was a righteous man”. (Gn 6:5-7;6:9) The God of Israel tells Noah to build an ark, gives him specific instructions on its design, and instructs him to bring “two of all living creatures” on the ark with him. (Gn 6:14-19) For 40 days it rains; a great flood covers the earth and “everything that moved on earth perished” except for Noah and everyone with him on the ark.
There was sickness and hunger and most of people’s children die before they reach adulthood. The Puritan did everything they could just to survive the difficulty of setting up the colony. It may be because this hardship and struggle that the puritans develop their negative outlook on life. Their need for a God to save them to get through the struggle of the day. It can also explain their belief in superstition and fear of things like witches.
After two revolts in AD 70 and AD 135, many Jews were ostracized from Palestine and forbidden to live there. They made settlements wherever possible and quite often they were persecuted and compelled to move on from country to country. Known as 'Christ killers', the Jews were despised throughout the Christian world and beyond, this anti-Semitism was caused mainly from the Jew considering themselves as 'Gods chosen people’. As a result near the end of the nineteenth century when anti-Semitism in Europe was the norm, an estimated three million Jews fled Eastern Europe in an attempt to avoid persecution. Around this time Zionism was developed, its aim was to establish its national homeland in Palestine and call it - by it title in the Old Testament - Israel.
Point # In the Bible, we see how the children of Israel ended up in slavery, like the basket of crickets the world entraps us into bondage: A. Exodus 1:8-14 (NKJV). Before the new king came into power the people of Israel were comfortable and complacent with the way they were living. Joseph and the old king took care of the children of Israel. However, when the new king came into power, he feared the children of Israel because they outnumber his people. So he arranged ways to try and keep the Israelite from departing the land of Egypt; therefore he sets taskmaster over them to control them.
The Hebrews were persecuted in Egypt. They had longed for freedom from the oppression they suffered. God eventually sent Moses to lead them way from the oppression into the Promised Land. Slavery was still a routine in their lives and there were laws about how the Hebrews were to manage the slaves While slavery existed, the prophets criticised injustice wherever they saw it, standing up for the weak against the powerful Desert, Wilderness and the Promised Land Many wilderness areas of Palestine were only left with very little vegetation: the desert was barren, a harsh windswept place of hunger, thirst and deprivation. Despite this, the Jewish people were under God’s constant protection when they were wandering throughout the desert.
There have been two great water shed periods in the Hebrew bible. Both periods had to do with slavery. Four hundred years of slavery in Egypt with people constantly thinking about the lack of freedom and constant injustice against them. The water shed periods dealing with slavery, mentioned in the Hebrew bible, really had me thinking deeply about the conscious realities of our so called “freedom” and if so what makes us free. It’s time for a change.