... less violent perspiration, palpitations, hysterics, catalepsy, and sometimes a condition resembling epilepsy. When the crisis was at its height, the patient was carried by attendants into one of the adjoining "Salles de Crises"; he was there laid on a couch, and usually he subsided gradually into a deep sleep from which he awoke refreshed and benefitted'.5 Although its practitioners are ignorant of the fact ... This event in Acts 19 is cited by many Charismatics and Pentecostals as being supportive of a post-conversion Baptism with the Holy Spirit; but this is based on an unclear transl...

• Word Count: 10720
• Approx Pages: 43
• Grade Level: High School

... What results is a "pre-digested" Bible containing the interpretation of the "translator." Worse still, paraphrases are often simple re-renderings of a text from an older English translation into more modern, up-to-date language without consulting the original languages at all. Besides being inaccurate, paraphrases are often trendy. The vocabulary they used or the ideas ... meant? Thus the theological presuppositions, and personal biases and assumptions of the translator, while less important than for a paraphrase, still play a major role in determining the resultant translation. The New I...

• Word Count: 3130
• Approx Pages: 13
• Grade Level: Undergraduate

... returned home to their children and traditional duties. But why? Why did it stop there? Educated Western women throughout the most recent two thousand years such as Christine de Pizan and Olympe de Gouges (Declarations of the Rights of Women) have called for the emancipation of women and female education. While arguing for the Biblical re-interpretation of female roles based on ... a new understanding of the Hebrew and Christian Bible, they didn't get much farther than public ridicule and unfortunately for de Gouges, the guillotine. Even with the acknowledgement of such radical ideas, u...

• Word Count: 2995
• Approx Pages: 12
• Grade Level: Undergraduate

... scholars to be Elijah and Moses. They believe that Elijah and Moses will return during the great tribulation and witness to the world about Jesus Christ. This would be a literal translation of this passage in order for this to be true. This passage is symbolic to represent the two witnesses similar to Moses and Elijah. In Revelation 11:5 John states that ... ...

• Word Count: 2735
• Approx Pages: 11
• Has Bibliography
• Grade Level: High School

... in their own faiths, their acts of injustice are later justified as needing to be done for they needed to get right with God. In the Preface of the Koran translation the author states, "It must be acknowledged too, that the Koranattributes to power and justifies blood shedding, persecution, slavery, and polygamy."34 By retelling these wide known fictional ... ...

• Word Count: 2532
• Approx Pages: 10
• Grade Level: High School

... scholars to be Elijah and Moses. They believe that Elijah and Moses will return during the great tribulation and witness to the world about Jesus Christ. This would be a literal translation of this passage in order for this to be true. This passage is symbolic to represent the two witnesses similar to Moses and Elijah. In Revelation 11:5 John states that ... ...

• Word Count: 2735
• Approx Pages: 11
• Has Bibliography
• Grade Level: High School

... suggests that the answer to the condemnation objection is to the wasting of male semen. Daniel A. Helminiak, Ph.D., author of "What the Bible Really Says About Homosexuality" says that the translation of the words "man- lying-with-man" was translated from Hebrew to Greek wrong. The Hebrews had no word for homosexual behavior therefore it was translated as "the man who ... ...

• Word Count: 2602
• Approx Pages: 10
• Has Bibliography
• Grade Level: High School

... become much more explicit. The RSV translates the verse way " "You were unmindful of the rock that begot you; you forgot the God who gave you birth-. Now the translation-the God who gave birth- is accurate but very tame. The Hebrew word that is used here for God can only be used to describe a woman writhing in labour pains ... ...

• Word Count: 3877
• Approx Pages: 16
• Has Bibliography
• Grade Level: High School

... his Gospel were he states that " He who believes and is baptized will be saved (Mark 16:16 RSV); but he who does not believe will be condemned." In early translation the distinction that is was the disbelief in Christ that condemned them was not as clear. Due to this misunderstanding the Church started to baptize infants thereby setting a dangerous precedent ... ...

• Word Count: 8909
• Approx Pages: 36
• Has Bibliography
• Grade Level: High School

... of its past. Linguistic Breakdown The English word "gospel" comes from the Anglo-Saxon "god-spell" meaning "God story"# or "good story." The word gospel, in every instance, is the translation of euangelion. The word eu meant, in classical Greek, "well" as opposed to kakos which meant "bad" or "evil." Aggello meant "to bear a message, bring tidings or news, proclaim."# Our ... ...

• Word Count: 5937
• Approx Pages: 24
• Has Bibliography
• Grade Level: High School

... safe. God help me. Amen." Excommunicated and condemned by the Church, he sought refuge at Wartburg Castle, protected by the elector Frederick the Wise of Saxony. There, he began his translation of the Bible, an important step in the development of the modern German language" (Bainton 1997: 144-148). Perhaps one of the main key factors in the rapid spread of ... ...

• Word Count: 2755
• Approx Pages: 11
• Has Bibliography
• Grade Level: Undergraduate

... for whom the concept of heroic conduct is crucial. "The epic and chivalric hero share some "common ground" the first is the honorable heroic code the second is the rite de passage, or what Moorman calls "the journey-initiation-quest" thirdly the presence of wyrd, fate or Providence, the failure of the heroes to some degree, and the way the epic ... ...

• Word Count: 2885
• Approx Pages: 12
• Has Bibliography
• Grade Level: Undergraduate