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Praying Curses; The Therapeutic and Preaching Value of the Imprecatory Psalms. Wipf and Stock, 2013. John Piper, "Do I Not Hate Those Who Hate You, O Lord?" Desiring God, 2000. Available online. Samuel J. Schultz. The Old Testament Speaks: A Complete Survey of Old Testament History, 5th edition. HarperOne, 1999. Erich Zenger.
The historian David Whitford writes of a "curse matrix" which was derived from the vagueness of Genesis 9 and interpreted by racialists to mean that it mattered not who was cursed or which specific group of people the curse originated with, all that mattering being that there was a vague reference to a generational curse that could be exploited ...
Ketef Hinnom Priestly Blessing. Ketef Hinnom scrolls – Probably the oldest surviving texts currently known from the Hebrew Bible – priestly blessing dated to 600 BC. [59] Text from the Book of Numbers in the Old Testament. Described as "one of most significant discoveries ever made" for biblical studies. [60] [61]
Genesis 12: To make of Abraham a great nation and bless Abraham and make his name great so that he will be a blessing, to bless those who bless him and curse him who curses him and all peoples on earth would be blessed through Abraham. [17] Genesis 15: To give Abraham's descendants all the land from the river of Egypt to the Euphrates. [18]
Patrick D. Miller in his commentary on Deuteronomy suggests that different views of the structure of the book will lead to different views on what it is about. [4] The structure is often described as a series of three speeches or sermons (chapters 1:1–4:43, 4:44–29:1, 29:2–30:20) followed by a number of short appendices [5] or some kind of epilogue (31:1–34:12), consist of commission ...
“An Exegetical Study of Leviticus 26: Mosaic Covenantal Laws, Blessings, and Curses with Implications for the Reading of Old Testament Canonical Books.” Master's thesis, Southeastern Baptist Theological Seminary, 2008. Roy E. Gane. "Leviticus." In Zondervan Illustrated Bible Backgrounds Commentary.
"Moses with the Ten Commandments" by Rembrandt (1659). Abrahamic religions believe in the Mosaic covenant (named after Moses), also known as the Sinaitic covenant (after the biblical Mount Sinai), which refers to a covenant between the Israelite tribes and God, including their proselytes, not limited to the ten commandments, nor the event when they were given, but including the entirety of ...
Blessings and curses of Christ appear in the New Testament, as recounted in the Beatitudes of Luke 6:20-22. Within Roman Catholicism , Eastern Orthodoxy , Anglicanism , Lutheranism , and similar traditions, formal blessings of the church are performed by bishops , priests , and deacons .