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?Moses and Monotheism?, 2002.
A review of Sigmund Freud's book ?Moses and Monotheism?.
2,707 words (approx. 10.8 pages), 1 source, MLA, $ 81.95
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This paper examines Freud's "Moses and Monotheism", an unusual book in which the founder of psychoanalysis investigates the origins of the Jewish religion and discusses, on the basis of his historical conclusions, the meanings of monotheism and the relationship between Judaism and Christianity. It examines how Freud believed he could accomplish this fresh look at Judaism and monotheism in general, because he had developed the psychoanalytic tools that made it possible to understand why certain processes occurred in the way they did and most importantly, to account for gaps and changes in the record for which, otherwise, no solid, factual explanations can be provided. It also examines how work is largely a response to the anti-Semitic tone of the times (1930s Germany) and places Judaism's (and the Jewish people's) relationship to the ancient past and the increasingly dangerous present in a clearer light.
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"In his discussion of the development of Judaism Freud's sources of information are only loosely described. It is not, in a strict sense, a scholarly book since, as the author mentions many times, he is not more than a casual student of ancient civilizations or biblical literature. But, after drawing certain conclusions about the historical course of Moses' influence on the faith, Freud argues that an analogy between this story and the foundational myth of human civilization (i.e., the killing of the father) demonstrates the likelihood that his interpretation is sound. In a circular fashion Freud's theoretical account of the pre-historic past validates his interpretation of the Moses legend and its subsequent history--down through Christianity--while his version of the Moses legend seems to be seen as a confirmation of that theory."
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"Moses and Monotheism", 2002.
A discussion of Freud's book on the origins of the Jewish religion.
2,250 words (approx. 9.0 pages), 1 source, $ 79.95
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Discusses Freud's book on the origins of the Jewish religion. The meanings of monotheism. The relationship between Judaism and Christianity. History of the Jewish people; repression and anti-Semitism. The book as a response to Hitler. Influence of Moses on the Jewish faith. Freudian theory on myths, and the Moses legend.
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"Freud's Moses and Monotheism is an unusual book in which the founder of psychoanalysis investigated the origins of the Jewish religion and discussed, on the basis of his historical conclusions, the meanings of monotheism and the relationship between Judaism and Christianity. This also includes a brief discussion of the nature of the Jewish people's centuries-long solidarity in the face of brutal repression and the reasons for the anti-Semitism that had been a prominent feature of European thought for centuries. The book was researched and written during the 1930s, as Freud's fellow Austrian Adolph Hitler rose to power in Germany on a flood of virulent anti-Semitic propaganda. Freud was reluctant to publish much of his work on this subject and waited until he had fled the 1938 German invasion of Austria and emigrated to the safety of "beautiful..."
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Monotheism vs. Dualism, 2006.
This paper focuses on the similarities and differences between the theological mindset of monotheism and the philosophy behind dualism.
1,063 words (approx. 4.3 pages), 3 sources, MLA, $ 37.95
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This paper defines monotheism as the general religious belief in one God, which is prevalent with most religions including Christianity, Islam and Judaism. This paper also delves into the philosophy of dualism which states that the universe is comprised of two specific substances. This paper presented as a comparative analysis details and examines the differences between the two philosophies. This paper clearly shows that monotheism does in fact possess some of the characteristics of the dualist philosophy yet dualism does not have even one characteristic similar to that of monotheism. The writer contends and proves in this paper that dualism decidedly emerged from the basic principles of monotheism.
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"The idea of an infinite and united God is consistent with the argument presented in the preceding paragraph. Time does not play a significant role in determining God's efficacy to its believers. Furthermore, mind and matter merge to create a united entity, a characteristic achieved only by God. And because God transcends all the worldly ideas and concepts that humanity has created, God is then considered simple, mainly because it is not spiritual or material, it simply exists as it is. This fact alone explains God's simplicity, though to explain its existence and knowability is actually a complex contemplation to engage in. Lastly, because God is infinite, united, and simple, he is thus divine: an entity that exists for different causes not known by humanity."
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Moses, 2003.
An overview of the historical life of Moses, as well as his role in the exodus and as God's human messenger to the people of Israel.
1,749 words (approx. 7.0 pages), 5 sources, APA, $ 56.95
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This paper examines the story of Moses as told in the book of Exodus in the Old Testament. It looks at how Moses was the predominant Israelite in Exodus and the most influential and important of all Israelites at the time. It shows how through God's command, Moses persuaded the Israelites to follow God and in return, God would deliver them from slavery and a life of suffering. It tells the story of Moses from his birth into slavery in Egypt in the Palace of the Pharaoh until he received God's covenant on Mount Sinai.
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"Moses used his miracles to convince the influential Israelites that God had indeed sent him, and with the success of making believers out of the elders, Moses attempted to do the same with the Pharaoh; however, when Moses ordered the Pharaoh to let his people go, the Pharaoh responded with ignorance claiming that he knew no such Lord and would not let the people go because they were his servants. Moses became dismayed and asks the Lord why he continues to let the Israelites suffer; God assured Moses that he will drive them out of the Pharaoh?s land. Even when Aaron performed a miracle by turning his staff into a snake, the Pharaoh was not convinced."
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Robert Moses, 2006.
A discussion regarding the man, Robert Moses, and his successful career in urban planning.
2,250 words (approx. 9.0 pages), 12 sources, $ 89.95
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This paper discusses Robert Moses, the man understood to be a titan in the field of urban planning. This paper describes Moses, saying that his preeminence in his field is such that serious scholars can mention his name in the same sentence as not only Paris's Baron Haussmann, but also Louis XIV, Peter the Great, and Soviet dictator Stalin. Moses is said to have shaped the city of New York.
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Moses, 2006.
A discussion of the life of Moses and the significance of his life to Judaism and Christianity.
2,731 words (approx. 10.9 pages), 10 sources, APA, $ 81.95
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This paper focuses on the life of Moses, the circumstances surrounding his birth and his upbringing. The paper also focuses on how Moses guided the children of Israel and discusses the correlation between Moses and New Testament Faith.
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"In any case, when the new king of Egypt came to power, he saw that the people of Israel were great and mightier than his own people. Therefore the king believed that he must "deal wisely with them; lest they multiply, and it come to pass, that , when there falleth out any war, they join also unto our enemies, and fight against us and so get them up out of land." The Old Testament reports that with this declaration, the king of Egypt forced the people of Israel to take on the burdens of building for the Pharoah the treasure cities of Pithom and Raamses. However, the people of Israel continued to multiply and the Egyptians were angered by this. Eventually the people of Israel were enslaved by the Egyptians and their lives were made difficult. Finally, the King of Egypt ordered the midwives to kill the sons of Hebrew women. However, the midwives feared God and refused to kill the sons of Israel. The Pharoah odered "all his people, saying, every son that is born ye shall cast into the river, and ecery daughter ye shall save alive." "
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" Robert Moses and the Fall of New York City ", 2008.
A discussion of the book "The Power Broker: Robert Moses and the Fall of New York City " by Robert Caro.
962 words (approx. 3.8 pages), 1 source, APA, $ 34.95
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The paper relates that Robert Caro's book, "The Power Broker: Robert Moses and the Fall ofnew York City", details Moses' personality and dealings with the political structure that allowed his meteoric rise and subsequent impact on New York and the nation as a whole. The paper then goes on to discuss the main points of Moses' life as chronicled in the book.
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" Following Moses' rise from his early years to the age of 80, when he finally lost all power, Caro thoroughly dissects this developer, showing all his defects of arrogance, vanity, racism, scheming, egomania, and ruthlessness. Yet, this man, writes Caro, was the only one able at that time to mold New York. In the mid-twentieth century, notes Caro, (5) it was well known that the city was "ungovernable." Since the governmental powers had mostly devolved to its mayor, no political entity could govern the city or do more than "merely stay afloat in the maelstrom that had engulfed the vast metropolis"
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Moses: The Man and the Myth, 2002.
Examines the history of the Biblical figure, Moses within the context of current historical knowledge of the area he lived in.
1,400 words (approx. 5.6 pages), 5 sources, $ 53.95
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This paper will attempt to analyze the life and achievements of the figure of Moses. It will be seen that the Biblical account may be examined in light of the history of Egypt and the Middle East around the time that the exodus of the Jews is believed to have occurred. It will be argued that, although any account of Moses' life must be - in the terminology of one historian - "conjectural history", we may nonetheless perceive through the fog of scripture and history the outlines of the man behind the myth of Moses.
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The Life, Myth and History of Moses, 2002.
A discussion of the importance of the biblical character of Moses to the Jewish people..
900 words (approx. 3.6 pages), 5 sources, $ 35.95
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This essay will argue that although any account of Moses life is - in the terminology of one historian - "conjectural history", we may nonetheless perceive the significance of Moses as a defining figure in the Jewish people's defining of their religious and cultural identity.
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Robert Moses, 2002.
This paper discusses the life and work of Robert Moses.
1,610 words (approx. 6.4 pages), 6 sources, MLA, $ 52.95
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This paper looks at the accomplishments of Robert Moses who was appointed Head of the Parks Commissions of New York and Long Island in 1924. The author discusses how Moses' career was long and proud, even though at various points he had several opponents.
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"?It was the scale of the thing ? nothing like this had ever been done in public recreation in America.? ?We thought he was nuts.? These were only two of the diverse reactions to the vision of Robert Moses right at the start. That vision occurred to him in the impossible years of the first decades of the 20th century, when only visionaries could have conceived of what he imagined. But today, there is no arguing the concrete fact that no man in the entire United States who had more to do with public works than he (The Atlantic Monthly 1945).
In the 1930s, 1940s and 1850s, he was king of the roads and the parks and the highways who forever transformed the urban landscape of the Big Apple through his public works projects."
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Moses, 2002.
A look at how the biblical character of Moses features in both Islam and Christianity.
1,150 words (approx. 4.6 pages), 4 sources, $ 44.95
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This paper discusses the views of Moses in Christianity and Islam. The paper gives a general summary of his life, mission and way he is viewed by Christianity and Islam while using specific stories or narratives about Moses (From the Bible and Koran) highlighting the similarities and differences between the two.
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Life of Moses, 2004.
A biography of the biblical character, Moses.
3,504 words (approx. 14.0 pages), 4 sources, MLA, $ 98.95
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This paper presents a description of the life of Moses, using texts directly from the Old Testament of the Bible, as well as stories and fables from Judaism and Christianity. The paper recounts the birth of Moses, his subsequent life in Pharaoh's palace, and his freeing of the Hebrew slaves.
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"As Moses spoke his last words to the new nation of Israel, the disciplined ranks of battle-hardened soldiers gathered before him and waited for the command that would send them across the River Jordan at last. ?You have dwelt long enough,? said Moses, ?in this mountain?turn you, and take your journey. Behold, I have set the land before thee; go in and possess the land which the Lord swore unto your fathers, to Abraham, to Isaac and to Jacob, to give unto them and to their seed after them? (Deuteronomy, 1:6-7, 8). But Moses was not to follow his people across the River Jordan, for he spent his last moments of life with ?Yahweh? alone, the ?invisible deity who had been his master and his friend, his torturer and his comforter, for the last forty years.?
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The Biblical Story of Moses, 2006.
An overview of the life of Moses based on the Holy Bible.
3,515 words (approx. 14.1 pages), 5 sources, MLA, $ 98.95
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This paper explains that the biography of Moses starts with the Holy Bible, where his life story is played out throughout Exodus, Numbers, Leviticus and Deuteronomy. The paper then relates the story of Moses beginning with when he was cast into the river as a baby to his possible one final glimpse of the "Promised Land" on Mount Nebo.
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"The Holy Bible does not relate much about what happened to Moses after being saved from the river and adopted by Pharaoh's daughter. However, a single line from the New Testament offers the suggestion that he was initiated into the arcane and exotic mysteries of ancient Egypt, for he was taught "all the wisdom of the Egyptians and was mighty in words and in deeds" (Act, 7:22). Thus, Moses appears to have been a gifted student, but his heart and mind obviously rejected all of the tenets of Egyptian religion, based on a pantheon of gods
and goddesses instead of monotheism, being the belief in one all powerful God or creator."
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Moses and Odysseus, 2004.
A comparison of the leadership qualities of Moses and Odysseus.
1,200 words (approx. 4.8 pages), 2 sources, MLA, $ 41.95
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This paper examines how, in the "Book of Exodus" in the Holy Bible, and in Homer?s "Odyssey", the leadership qualities of Moses and Odysseus are thoroughly demonstrated by their individual actions and reactions to particular circumstances in their lives. It shows how, with Moses, several examples of his leadership traits are connected to the Egyptians and to his own people, being the Israelites. With Odysseus, the best examples of his leadership qualities lie in his concern for his fellowman and the future of his family in Ithaca, comprised of Telemachus, his son, and Penelope, his good wife, who has waited more than twenty years for his return from the Trojan War.
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"One of the first important incidents related in Exodus that demonstrates the leadership qualities of Moses concerns the time when he wandered out of the Egyptian palace and came upon a scene that opened his eyes to the fate of his fellow Israelites--?And it came to pass in those days when Moses was grown up, that he went out unto his brethren and looked on their burdens; and he saw an Egyptian smiting a Hebrew, one of his brethren? (2:11). In response to this act, Moses rescued a fellow Israelite from a beating and inflicted a kind of justice on the Egyptian that symbolized the worst excesses of the Egyptian monarchy. Thus, Moses exhibited one of the best attributes of leadership, being the saving of a fellow human being while putting his own life at risk for the sake of another."
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The Laws of Moses and Hammurabi, 2004.
A comparative analysis of the ancient laws of Moses and Hammurabi.
2,333 words (approx. 9.3 pages), 4 sources, MLA, $ 71.95
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This paper examines how the laws of the ancient world demonstrate a consistency with the laws of the present and how they prove, without a doubt, that the challenges of the human condition have been and remain similar in scope and temptation. In particular, it looks at how this true of the laws of Moses and the laws of Hammurabi, even though the ways in which these two sets of laws differ are also very visible. It shows how Hammurabi is a comprehensive and practical canon set within the context of a real-world need for comprehensive laws of man, while the laws of Moses offer a generalized guideline of morality in the world of man as seen by God.
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"The issue of judgment demonstrates very clearly the differences between the laws of Hammurabi and the laws of the Books of Moses, with regard to the real nature of the ways in which humanity fails. The former is a comprehensive edict of right and wrong doing while the later is a moral guidepost for believers in the lord. Within the Hammurabi text it becomes clear that the intent of the actor is absolutely unimportant, as the act of wrong doing, or presumable wrongdoing is the one and only reason for judgment and punishment, yet within the laws of Moses even the intent is punishable within the confines of faith and eternity."
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