by hadassah | Jul 7, 2008 | Doublets and Contradictions
1866–1870 engraving by Gustave Doré (1832–1883), entitled “Le Lâcher de la colombe” (“The dove sent forth from the ark”). “Alors il lâcha d’auprès de lui la colombe pour voir si les eaux avaient diminué à la surface du sol.”...
by hadassah | Jul 2, 2008 | Doublets and Contradictions
So, last time I gave a reading of the creation accounts that are in Genesis 1 to 3. These are two very different stories but their placement side by side suggests the possibility of a joint reading. Nevertheless they are very different in character, and today I want...
by hadassah | Jul 2, 2008 | Doublets and Contradictions
5This is the record of Adam’s line.—When God created man, He made him in the likeness of God; 2male and female He created them. And when they were created, He blessed them and called them Man.—3When Adam had lived 130 years, he begot a son in his likeness after his...
by hadassah | Jul 2, 2008 | Doublets and Contradictions
The Hebrew Bible Building the Tower of Babel represents an attempt by humanity to rebel against God’s sovereignty. In answer to man’s presumptuousness, God scattered the builders of the tower and generated the many different tongues spoken all over the earth....
by hadassah | Jun 12, 2008 | Bible and Beyond, Doublets and Contradictions
What the Babylonian Flood Stories Can and Cannot Teach Us About the Genesis Flood, Tikva Frymer-Kensky, Biblical Archaeology Review (4:04), Nov/Dec 1978 The Babylonian flood stories are similar to the Genesis flood story in many ways, but they are also very...
by hadassah | Apr 8, 2008 | Apocryphal Literature, Doublets and Contradictions, What Abraham Jacob and Joseph Might Have Known
1 Enoch, Book of Watchers: Enoch’s Vision Lawrence H. Schiffman, Texts and Traditions, Ktav, Hoboken 1998, p.336-340 and Revised Standard Version of the Bible, Apocrypha, copyright 1957 by the Division of Christian Education of the National Council of the...
