Tag: Flood
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Jesus on the Sea of Galilee
Following on from my previous posts about the Feeding of the 5000 being a parable rather than historical, the same can be said about Jesus on the Sea of Galilee. He’s said to have instantly calmed its stormy waves – “a windstorm arose on the sea, so great that the boat was being swamped”. Normally,…
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The Bible and Babylonian Myth (ii)
My previous post showed how the Hebrew Bible writers made use of the Babylonian myth ‘Enuma Elish’ in finalising their own great national epic, and how the conflict between the god Marduk and the goddess Tiamat, hinted at in Genesis 1:2, finds clear parallels in the books of the Psalms and Job. In the Babylonian…
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‘Once Upon a Time’ (i) Atrahasis
If we imagine that the Hebrew Bible/Old Testament dropped ready-made from the skies above, we do it, and ourselves, a disservice, and miss out on some interesting and amusing stuff. The people of Israel were late arrivals in the ancient near east, others having already been there for thousands of years, especially in Egypt and…
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Noah’s Flood
One of the things I enjoy about the Hebrew Bible (or Old Testament) is that it reminds us that if people think they’ve got God taped, they haven’t. Academic systematic theology (try saying that after a few glasses of wine) tells us that God can do anything, knows everything, and is absolutely good. But hold…
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