Introductory essays

• An introduction to this website​

• A critique of the documentary hypothesis

• Why the names of God in the Torah are important

• Allegory in the early stories of Genesis

 

The First Creation Account (page with summaries of essays):​​​

• The First Creation account is allegorical prose based on the number seven

• Mythology and the first creation account

• Science and the existence and omnipotence of God

 

The Garden of Eden story (page with summaries of essays):

• When did Adam and Eve live?

• Are there one or two creation accounts?

• 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

• Immortality and the Garden of Eden Story

 

The Cain and Abel Story (page with summaries of essays):

• 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 (page with summaries of essays):

• 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 (page with summary of essay):

• Satire in the Torah and the ziggurat of Babylon

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Abraham's Mission (page with summary of essays):

• The promises and covenant of YHWH to Abraham

• The Covenant of Circumcision — an eternal nation in a country eternally theirs

• 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 (page with summary of essays):

• Jacob and Esau and Jewish power

• Jacobs's blessings and visions

• Joseph — his dreams and interpretations

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Moses and the Exodus (page with summary of essays):

• God's two speeches of redemption

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

• Amalek

• With what script did God write the Ten Commandments?

• Bilaam the magician

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The Purim Story (page with summary of essay):

• Identifying Achasverosh and Esther​

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