​The First Creation Account:​​​

• Modern science and allegory in the early stories of Genesis

• The names of God in the Bible

• The first creation account, the creation of man and the sanctity of the Sabbath — prose based on number seven

• Mythology and the first creation account

• Science and the existence and omnipotence of God

 

The Garden of Eden story:

• When did Adam and Eve live?

• Is the Second Creation story factual or allegorical?

• The Tree of Knowledge of Good and Bad and the serpent

• Reaching for divinity in the Garden of Eden

• Monogamy and the Garden of Eden story

• The Garden of Eden story and the origins of the human condition

• Optimism and spiritual immortality and the Garden of Eden Story

 

The Cain and Abel Story:

• Cain and Abel and the Agricultural Revolution

• ​Cain and Abel's offering to God and the importance of the  firstborn

• At the scene of the crime in the Cain and Abel Story

 

Noah and the Flood:

• Noah and the flood - an epic poem of mythological proportions 

• ​The Noah story and the names of God

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The Tower of Babel:

• Satire in the Torah and the ziggurat of Babylon

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Abraham's Mission:

• The promises and covenant of YHWH to Abraham

• Elohim's Covenant of Circumcision - fertility and eternity

• Abraham's mission of bringing righteousness and justice to the world

• The destruction of Sodom

• Where was the biblical Sodom?

• Isaac and Abraham, Ishmael and Hagar- a story yet incomplete

• The Binding of Isaac - the non-event that changed the world

• The burial of Sarah

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Jacob and his Children:

• Jacob and Esau and Jewish power

• Jacobs's blessings and visions

• Joseph - the right person in the right place at the right time

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Moses and the Exodus:

• God's speeches of redemption

• The Egyptian Exodus and Canaanite conquest – facts or fiction?

• Amalek

• Bilaam the magician

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The Purim Story:

• Identifying Achasverosh and Esther​

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