Noahs Ark
Essays

Social groups, including religious organizations, parents, and school administration among others, make decisions daily about what material will become a part of the regular school curriculum and what material will be…

Flood Narratives: A Comparison of Genesis vs. Gilgamesh

Horatio Hornblower's education in the naval lifestyle: a book review of Mr. Midshipman Hornblower by C.F. Forester (Boston: Back Bay, 1950)

Echoes Within the Two Old Testament Accounts of the Great Flood of Genesis

The story of David and Goliath has become a classic parable of how the weak can defeat the strong, size doesn't matter, and that all things are possible through "the Lord Almighty" (New International Version, 1 Sam.

This paper discusses the five books of the Bible which are called the Pentateuch. These books begin with Genesis, where God creates the universe. He also creates man and woman who are thrown from the Garden of Eden when they disobey God. Next, Noah is told to build an ark and bring two of every animal while he floods the Earth. From there they are sent to be slaves and then freed.

In modern Western countries, many Christians and Jews may wish to portray God as the comfortable deity of a middle-class consumer society like the United States, but the Bible demonstrates that nothing could be further…

Christian Biotechnology: Not a Contradiction in Terms

This paper explores the parallels and influence of ancient Near Eastern / Mesopotamian mythology on the more familiar classical Greek myths. It begins with an examination of parallels between the Homeric epic and Gilgamesh, noting that motifs would not have been influenced by readership but by oral transmission. it then examines explicit mythographic writing in terms of the depictions of goddesses in Mesopotamian and Greek myth. The essay includes two primary and three secondary source quotations.

The Venetian trader and adventurer Marco Polo was an exceptionally astute observer as he traveled the caravan routes to China, Tibet, and India, and then returned by sea over twenty years later, with tales of countries few people in Europe had ever seen before. His brother and uncle had travelled there in 1260-65, then returned again four years later, and reported on their meeting with the Kublai Khan at Kaifeng (Beijing) and his request for one hundred Christian missionaries. The Khan's message was ultimately relayed to the Pope but he did not send the requested missionaries. When he left Venice with his father in 1271, Marco Polo was a boy of seventeen, and had no idea what adventures were ahead of him. Virtually no one in in the Western world at that time could possibly have known since they literally had no maps of China or the route to get there, and all they knew about Asia was ancient myths and legends of faraway lands. For centuries, Marco Polo was accused of exaggerating his exploits and called Marco Millione or Marco of a Million Tales.