Rainforest Camp

Purchase includes free access to book updates online and a free trial membership in the publisher's book club where you can select from more than a million books without charge. Chapters: William of Ockham, Ten Commandments, Thomas Aquinas, You Shall Not Murder, I Am the Lord Your God, You Shall Not Covet, You Shall Not Bear False Witness Against Your Neighbor, Remember the Sabbath and Keep It Holy, You Shall Not Steal, Mandate of Heaven, Robert Merrihew Adams. Excerpt: The Ten Commandments, or Decalogue, is a list of religious and moral imperatives that, according to the Hebrew Bible, were spoken by God (referred to in several names) to the people of Israel from the mountain referred to as Mount Sinai or Horeb, and later authored by God and given to Moses in the form of two stone tablets. They are recognized as a moral foundation in Judaism, Christianity and Islam. In Biblical Hebrew, the commandments are called (transliterated ) and in Rabbinical Hebrew (transliterated ), both translatable as "the ten words" or "the ten things." The English name "Decalogue" is derived from the Greek translation "ten terms", found in the Septuagint at Exodus 34:28 and Deuteronomy 10:4. The phrase "Ten Commandments" is generally used to refer to similar passages in Exodus 20:217 and Deuteronomy 5:621. Some scholars distinguish between this "Ethical Decalogue" and a different series of ten commandments in Exodus 34:1127 that they call the "Ritual Decalogue". Although Exodus 34 contains ten imperative statements, the passages in Exodus 20 and Deuteronomy 5 contain fourteen or fifteen. However, the Bible assigns the count of ten to both lists. Various denominations divide these statements into ten in different ways, and may also translate the Commandments differently. The lists known as the Ten Commandments are given in passages in two books of the Bible: Exodus 20:217, Exodus 34:1127 and Deuteronomy 5:621. These passages are provided in Englis... More: http://booksllc.net/?id=2539671