Genesis 3-4 In chapter three, we reviewed the familiar story of the “original sin”: the serpent, the fruit, the fig leaves and the expulsion from Eden. Our discussion of what “the Tree” represents provided various interpretations. (Oh, and by the way, there is ...
Genesis 1-2 We read chapter one and discusses how it is a wonderfully structured piece of prose. It is structured around the number seven the number of divine completion. 7 days of creation 7 times “and it was so” 7 times “it was good” 7 Hebrew words in the first ...
This week we did something very rare for this class. We did not read the Bible. We discussed the reasons for the creation of the bible, the reasons for writing history, when history began and the origins of biblical text. We toped it off with a quick story on the ...