by hadassah | Jul 7, 2008 | Doublets and Contradictions
Dove Sent Forth from the Ark, Gustave Doré (1832–1883). 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...
by hadassah | Jul 2, 2008 | Doublets and Contradictions
Genesis 5-11 and the Historical-Critical Method, Christine Hayes, Open Yale Courses (Transcription), 2006. 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...
by hadassah | Jul 2, 2008 | Doublets and Contradictions
Genesis 5-11 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...
by hadassah | Jul 2, 2008 | Doublets and Contradictions
February 21, 1970 Palestinian terrorist blew up a Swissair plane 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...
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...
