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What We Learned About This Year!
Methods of Interpreting the Bible
Throughout the semester our religion class has learned about many helpful skills for reading and understanding the bible.  Our main focus on this class was biblical interpretation.  This class taught me how to analyze and pick apart passages to find hidden or metaphorical meanings.  To see more of what we learned click HERE. 


What Do Writters of The Bible See as "The Moral Life" ?
During the semester we also read the gospels of Matthew and John and analyzed what we believed the authors were trying to portray through their writing.  An underlying theme that seemed to reoccur during these readings was the theme of a moral life.  Each of these writers seemed to address the question, what is necessary for a moral life? To read what I believe writers of the Bible see as a moral life click HERE.
What Do Contemporary Christians Think About These Questions?
Towards the end of the course the final question we were asked to write about was what contemporary Christians believe to be a moral life and alsowe were to give feedback on what we believed.  Click HERE to find out more. 
 

My Papers:
The Book of Genesis
The purpose of this paper was to introduce the class to literary analysis.  We were given a passage and our assignment was to identify key elements of the narrative and interpret them.  I choose the book of Genesis for my paper.  Click HERE to read more!.

Story of David and Jonathan

In this paper I used literary analysis to analyze the story of David and Jonathan.  We were told to identify the literary context, the characters, the plot, and also our interpretation of the story.  Click HERE to read more!


Micah
This essay was bease off of our knowledge of prophetic literature. 


Who Should Be Blamed For The Death Of Jesus?
In this paper I analyzed the book of Matthew and how he seems to place the blame of the death of Jesus on the Jews present at the sentencing of Jesus.  I believe that it was not only this small group of Jews that were involved in the condemning of Jesus and that it was everyone around him at the time that were involved.  To read more click HERE.