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Law Paper 2

Law Paper 2

Q LAW PAPER #2 Write a brief research paper, LAW PAPER #2, 6-8 pages long, dealing with a specific OT law. The topic is the “The Prohibition of Incest"(See Below). Your investigation of the law should focus on the law's meaning (for its original Israelite audience) and (briefly) its theological and practical value for Christians. As you consider this law, most of your effort should be on the law's meaning (80%), with perhaps only 20% on its theological and practical implications. To research the law's meaning, you should utilize scholarly commentaries, Bible dictionaries, journal articles, books, etc. Turabian format with a Bibliography page. At least 10 sources. Must have Gane, Dorsey, Wright, Stuart, and Alexander as sources. Paper is due on December 12th but can the tutor have it done by December 10th or 11th, So i can review for turning it in? Please let me know if it can be sent to me early or not. Thank you. Prohibition against incest - Must explain these Scriptures - Leviticus 18:6 - 17; 20:11 - 12, 14, 17, 19 - 21; Deuteronomy 22:30, Hebrews 23:1.Pl 2

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This passage in the Old Testament provides a list of relatives, family members and individuals of close relations with whom sexual relations must never be established by any Christian. The issue is with the establishment of sexual relations with the forbidden relations or individuals is that it degrades the level of human morality. Moreover, there is the element of human shame which becomes absolutely eliminated from the human minds and the human bodies.