Tag: Hebrew

• Genesis One as a Work of Literature

  Genesis 1:1- 2:3 was one of the last contributions to the opening five books of the Hebrew Bible. It was added when they were reaching their final shape, at the hands of Priestly editors. The following Genesis 2:4 to 3:24 ‘creation’ account is much earlier, with a human-like God strolling around his garden, talking to…

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  3rd Nov 2022

  Christianity, Hebrew Bible, Literature, Mythology, Old Testament, Poetry, Religion

  Creation, Darwin, Evolution, Genesis 1, God, Hebrew, Literature, Man and Woman, Sabbath, Science

• The Birth of Moses (i)

  There was a time when it was taken for granted that Moses wrote the first five books of the Hebrew Bible – the ‘Torah’ if you’re Jewish, the ‘Pentateuch’ if you’re not. These books, however, don’t say that he did. They’re written from a third person perspective; and it’s hard to imagine Moses describing, in…

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  22nd Oct 2022

  Christianity, Hebrew Bible, Literature, Mythology, Old Testament, Poetry, Religion

  Egypt, Exodus, God, Hebrew, King Arthur, Legend, Moses, Nile, Pharaoh, Sargon

• Me and the Hebrew Bible

  I’ve never regretted choosing to specialise in ‘Hebrew and Old Testament’ when I studied ‘Divinity’ over 50 years ago. My only regret is that I did so as a very ‘conservative’ Christian, with a correspondingly semi-closed mind, but it’s never too late to remedy such things. Currently I’m reading through the first 15 chapters of…

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  6th Oct 2022

  Christianity, Hebrew Bible, Literature, Mythology, Old Testament, Poetry, Religion

  Bible, Buber, Christian, Exodus, Hebrew, Judaism, Nazis, Old Testament, Palestine, Simon Schama