Reading the Bible 1: Introduction
I’ve decided to start blogging through the Bible on a semi-daily basis. I see this as a useful exercise in many ways: It will force me to write regularly which is a long languished goal of mine. At the...
View ArticleReading the Bible 2: Introduction to the Torah
We begin our journey with the Old Testament. The exact books that make up the Old Testament vary among Christian denominations with some including only the books found in the canonical Hebrew Bible of...
View ArticleReading the Bible 3: Genesis 1:1-2:4a
We begin our reading of Genesis with the story of creation Gen 1:1-2:4a where the 2:4a portion of the last verse is “This is the history of the generations of the heavens and of the earth when they...
View ArticleReading the Bible 4: The Book of Adam and the Tetragrammaton
Today we move on to the second tablet from which Genesis was compiled: Genesis 2:4b-5:1a. Our tablet begins thus: “In the day that Yahweh God made the earth and the heavens, no plant of the field was...
View ArticleReading the Bible 5: Adam and Eve
Today’s reading is Gen 2:4b-25. As was noted in my previous commentary, today’s passage is contained in what is arguably Adam’s own family record of his origins. So this section is not really a “second...
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