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  Off The Map Discussion Board for Christians, Atheists and People In-between :: View topic - three days later?!?
I also understand the person who says that the Genesis story is a story of God's intention for man, and not a scientific account, and so the old number "6 days" is irrelevant to the real issues addressed in Genesis.
I believe the Bible was inspired by God, and should held to a higher standard, but not, apparently, as high of a standard as you set.
Ahhh yes, however, I think the normal Christian understanding of the Bible is that it is indeed a man-made document, but one that is, despite that, a communication from God.
www.off-the-map.org /ebayatheist/viewtopic.php?t=123&start=45   (2515 words)

  
  Hebrew Poetry
Because we read the Hebrew Bible from a Modern Western thinkers point of view and not from an Ancient Eastern thinkers such as the Hebrews who wrote it.
The Hebrews style of writing is prolific with a style of poetry unfamiliar to most readers of the Bible.
Days 2 - 7 use the Hebrew word for second, third, fourth, etc. We would assume that the "first" day would use the Hebrew word "reshon" meaning "first" in order to be consistent with the other six days, but instead we have the word "echad" meaning "one" or " in unity".
www.ancient-hebrew.org /23_genesis_1.html   (1207 words)

  
  Gospel of John - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
It is notable that the Gospel's opening prologue in John 1:1-18 consciously echoes the opening motif of Genesis (Hebrew Bible).
While Genesis 1 focuses on God's creation, John 1 focuses on the Word (or Logos in the Greek) and the significance of the Word coming into the already created world.
According to the New American Bible, Catholic Book Publishing Co., New York, 1970, the story of the adultress (John 8:1-11) is missing from the best early Greek manuscripts.
en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Gospel_of_John   (2700 words)

  
 IVP - Quiet Time Bible Study
Genesis is a book of beginnings: the origin of the universe, birth of the human race and founding of the Hebrew nation.
At any rate, we will assume that the message of Genesis was given to Israel during their years in the wilderness, around 1250 B.C. Therefore, we need to know something of Israel's cultural and religious situation in order to understand what the author intends to teach.
Genesis and the whole Old Testament look forward to his new creation and covenant in Jesus Christ, into whose fellowship we also are called.
www.ivpress.com /bible/genesis   (977 words)

  
 Exploring Genesis
Genesis describes the beginning of the world, of human beings and civilization, of families and nations, of sin and salvation.
Genesis can be divided into a prologue (1:1 - 2:3), and 10 sections introduced in the King James Version with the words "these are the generations of" (2:4 - 4:26; 5:1 - 6:8; 6:9 - 9:29; 10:1 - 11:9; 11:10-26; 11:27 - 25:11; 25:12-18; 25:19 - 35:29; 36:1 - 37:1; 37:2 - 50:26).
Genesis traces a specific line of descendants from Adam to Jacob, highlighting God’s selection of, and commitment to, the family of Abraham – the family through whom he would implement his plan of salvation (12:1-3).
www.wcg.org /lit/bible/law/genesis.htm   (1584 words)

  
 IBSS - The Bible - Genesis 1
According to Genesis 1:9 the earth seems to be submerged under the waters of the deep, or mingled with the waters.
Genesis 1:9 seems to indicate that the earth was under (or mingled in) water.
Genesis 7:11 and 8:2 mentions the windows of heaven that are either opened or closed to let the water in or out.
www.bibleandscience.com /bible/books/genesis/genesis1.htm   (18569 words)

  
 CATHOLIC ENCYCLOPEDIA: Hebrew Bible
Hebrew Bible differs considerably from the arrangement and order of the Septuagint, which have been adopted by the Vulgate and the Protestant versions.
The Hebrew names for the sacred books of the Pentateuch differ from our own, which are derived from the Septuagint.
Antwerp Bible that the Arabic numerals for all the verses were first placed against them in the margin, though this had been done on a more limited scale in the "Basle Psalter" of 1563.
www.newadvent.org /cathen/07175a.htm   (980 words)

  
 Bible
The two collections vary between the two religions in that the Hebrew Bible represents the first of two parts in the Christian.
The Greek took this word from the Phoenician city of Byblos, which in the 1st millennium BCE was the main trading port for papyrus.
The canonical Hebrew Bible consists of 24 books, while the one in use today has 39 books, as prophetical books have been added to both the Christian Old Testament and the Hebrew Bible.
lexicorient.com /e.o/bible.htm   (118 words)

  
 Bible Survey: Genesis
The first of the three major divisions of the Hebrew Bible is called Torah in Hebrew; this is normally translated with the English word "Law".
Moses is traditionally assumed to be the author of the book of Genesis, though he is nowhere in scripture specifically identified as its author.
Places a gap in the narrative either before Genesis 1:1 or between Genesis 1:1 and 1:2; believes the universe was created approximately twenty billion years ago, then suffered a cataclysmic destruction at the time of Satan's rebellion, necessitating the reconstruction of the Earth about six thousand years ago.
www.theology.edu /biblesurvey/gen.htm   (1119 words)

  
 Interpreting Genesis 1 - 2
Genesis was written in the context of a pre-scientific worldview, and that is the language it speaks.
In Genesis, the world is without form and void, and darkness was on the face of the deep waters (the Hebrew word used is tehom, a word derived from the same root as ‘Tiamat’).
In a sense, in the P creation account in Genesis 1, and in the references to the exodus, a sort of ‘demythologization’ is taking place, as traditional mythical language is applied either to historical events or to creation understood in a more theologically sophisticated manner.
blue.butler.edu /~jfmcgrat/bible/ot/genesis1.htm   (1946 words)

  
 Albert Barnes Notes on the Bible - Genesis 1:3-5
Accordingly, the intelligent perusal of the Bible has never produced idolatry; but, on the other hand, has communicated even to its critics the just conceptions they have acquired of the spiritual nature of the one true God.
And it is no less consonant with the fact that heat, of which light is a species or form, is, and has from the beginning been, present in all those chemical changes by which the process of universal nature is carried on through all its innumerable cycles.
If this division come from the author, it indicates that he regarded the first day's work as the body of the narrative, and the creation of the universe, in the first verse, and the condition of the earth, in the second, as mere preliminaries to introduce and elucidate his main statement.
www.gotothebible.com /Barnes/Genesis/1p3.html   (3300 words)

  
 from jesus to christ: the first christians: from hebrew bible to christian bible
Another section of the Hebrew Bible consists of the prophets (Isaiah, Jeremiah, Ezekiel, the twelve "minor," i.e., brief, prophets).
They all believed the author of the Bible was God, that it was therefore a perfect book, that it had strong moral agendas and that it was abidingly relevant.
Genesis 11 is the story of how humans soon after the Flood built a city centered around a tower "with its top in the heavens." The purpose of the Tower of Babel was to allow its builders to "make a name" for themselves.
www.pbs.org /wgbh/pages/frontline/shows/religion/first/scriptures.html   (2234 words)

  
 MyJewishLearning.com - Texts: Reading Genesis as a Book
It is perfectly apt that the Patriarchal Tales should conclude with Jacobs deathbed poem envisaging the destiny of the future tribes of Israel, which he prefaces with the words, "Gather round, that I may tellyouwhat shall befall you in the days to come" (49:1).
Genesis begins with the making of heaven and earth and all life, and ends with the image of a mummy--Joseph's--in a coffin.
Genesis, then, works with disparate materials, puts together its story with two large and very different building blocks, but nevertheless achieves the cohesiveness, the continuity of theme and motif, and the sense of completion of an archetectonically conceived book.
www.myjewishlearning.com /texts/bible/What_is_the_Torah/Genesis_Means_Origins/GenesisAsBook.htm   (1069 words)

  
 LibriVox » The Bible: The Book of Genesis
Genesis is the story of the Creation and the people that followed it.
But most of all the beauty of Genesis lies in the description of human behavior from its petty jealousies through unrelenting commitment for a worthy cause and love for family and friends.
The Hebrew language is the original language of the Bible.
librivox.org /the-bible-the-book-of-genesis   (289 words)

  
 EXAMINATION OF THE HEBREW BIBLE AS TO THE STRUCTURE AND IDIOM OF THE LANGUAGE
On the contrary, the Hebrew, more like the gospels by far, seems to give a vividness to what begins in verse 3, because it brings us into the scene itself where God is presented as a living Person in present action, and this living Person’s actions and words characterize the whole paragraph onward.
There are eight imperatives in Genesis i., and the reason of their being used, and the effect on the sense, we shall see when we come to them.
The article is marked in Hebrew, where it occurs, by a capital T in the word The.
www.sedin.org /propeng/oldt_gen.htm   (4526 words)

  
 Materials for seminar discussion of the Hebrew Bible
The Hebrew God acts in history and is known by historical events.
Note that Moses, though he is the traditional prophet of the Pentateuch, is not among the prophets grouped together in the Hebrew Bible.
Be able to contrast the Hebrew prophets with prophecy in the Greek context (from Cassandra to the oracle and Delphi and Tiresias).
www2.bc.edu /~duket/hebrewbibletopics3.html   (490 words)

  
 BibleGateway.com - Version information: New International Version
It was conceived in 1965 when, after several years of study by committees from the Christian Reformed Church and the National Association of Evangelicals, a trans-denominational and international group of scholars met at Palos Heights, Illinois, and agreed on the need for a new translation in contemporary English.
Responsibility for the version was delegated to a self-governing body of fifteen Biblical scholars, the Committee on Bible Translation, and in 1967, the New York Bible Society (now International Bible Society) generously undertook the financial sponsorship of the project.
The translators were united in their commitment to the authority and infallibility of the Bible as God's Word in written form.
www.biblegateway.com /versions/index.php?action=getVersionInfo&vid=31#books&version=31;   (1514 words)

  
 quiz re Genesis - creation - first sin - Adam - Eve
In your Bible the Old Testament is a translation of ancient manuscripts written in...
In most Bible translations, "Genesis" is the title of the first book of the Bible.
Bible Bell went for answer "b" -- that the serpent was a tool of Satan -- because of Rev 12.9.
www.biblebell.org /quiz/testgen1.html   (1985 words)

  
 SBL Ministries - BibleJourney: Genesis - Issue 2: A Quick Glance at Genesis
Genesis, often viewed as an epic drama, is the first of the five books called the Pentateuch.
Septuagint is a Greek translation of the Hebrew Bible that was translated in the Intertestamental Period.
Genesis now tells the story of the beginning of the children of God through his fulfilled promises to Abraham.
www.sbl.org /biblestudies/biblejourney/genesis/issue2.shtm   (1152 words)

  
 Bible Code Digest.com - Twenty Questions
Given the prescience and super-human intelligence of the author(s), the view that the Bible is merely a collection of ancient myths should be rejected.
If individual Bible codes were truly reliable, their messages would compete with the literal text and Bible code researchers would become prophets on whom many people would rely.
Though some have claimed that real codes are evidence that aliens wrote the Bible, to our knowledge no one has formulated a substantive hypothesis that can be examined (or tested statistically) in support of such a belief.
www.biblecodecritic.com /page.php/190   (1194 words)

  
 PC(USA) - We Believe - Younger Youth Survey Course "I Know My Bible"
This study is designed to help participants know where the major Bible stories are and see how the Bible flows from book to book.
As each section is completed, bookmarks are presented to participants for them to keep and use for their own personal Bible study.
While neither book is a part of Hebrew history, the stories reflect the connection of history to God the creator and redeemer.
www.pcusa.org /webelieve/yy_iknowmybible.htm   (538 words)

  
 IBSS - The Bible - Genesis 1
View entire Genesis 1 discussion as one document.
My approach to Genesis one is to first look at the Hebrew text to see what it means in Hebrew.
Next I want to look at other translations from the Hebrew text to see how they understood the text.
www.bibleandscience.com /bible/books/genesis/genesis1_toc.htm   (167 words)

  
 Participatory Bible Study Blog » Genesis
Genesis 4 thus provides the link between the initial separation from God and the resulting fear that is told in chapter three, and the near total corruption of chapter 6.
For those who believe in a universal flood, it’s interesting how Genesis 4 can specific people of the non-patriarchal lines as the ancestors of those with certain professions, surely something that could not be if their line died out in the flood.
I just completed drafting a translation of Genesis 3 for my Totally Free Bible Version project, which is simply where I make my personal translation work available free on the web for anyone who wants to use it within a very limited set of rules.
www.participatorystudyseries.com /biblestudy/?cat=20   (8690 words)

  
 Washington Bible College - Capital Bible Seminary - Biblical Hebrew and OT Exegesis
Selected portions of the Old Testament are read with an emphasis on increasing the student's proficiency in reading from the Hebrew Bible.
A translation and exegetical study of various types of Hebrew poetry to give students a basic familiarity of the genre.
A survey of the archaeology of Ras Shamra and a study of the Ugaritic language and literature, with an emphasis on their contributions to Hebrew and Old Testament studies.
www.bible.edu /index.cfm?PAGE_ID=176&EXPAND=487   (522 words)

  
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Genesis: a new translation with a commentary anthologized from talmudic, midrashic and rabbinic sources.
The Kabbalah: the religious philosophy of the hebrews.
Hesed in the Bible, translated by Alfred Gottschalk, with an introduction by Gerald A. Larue, edited by Elias L. Epstein.
www.anschechesed.org /education/Library/aclibcat.htm   (8383 words)

  
 Ancient Paths - Articles - The Bible Code
In the end, the notion of the Bible Codes rests on two fundamental pillars: 1) the claim that these word patterns are statistically significant and could not be accounted for by chance; 2) the idea that there is a letter-perfect, inviolate, version of the Torah in Hebrew, without textual variants or alterations.
As for the inviolate text of the Hebrew Bible, the whole Bible Codes theory faces what I take to be a rather insurmountable problem—especially in dealing with portions of the Hebrew text larger than a section or page.
This means that any wide search of the Hebrew Bible, involving thousands of letters in dozens of pages, becomes invalid if one assumes that the precise letter sequence in modern copies of the Torah has not changed over the centuries.
www.ancientpaths.org /APJTbiblecode.html   (3340 words)

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