Creating the Old Testament

I designed and edited the book Creating the Old Testament in 1989 and it is still in print. It contained the work of 15 scholars some of whom developed similar ideas in later books. It placed the focus on Old Testament as a political document, written for a purpose and setting out particular theological agendas in those days.

Friday, 25 December 2020

Creating the Old Testament: The Emergence of the Hebrew Bible.

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Creating the Old Testament:  The Emergence of the Hebrew Bible. Edited by Dr Stephen Bigger Basil Blackwell Ltd, 1989. Available: print ...
Friday, 12 May 2017

The Israelite Woman, and a Thesis.

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I am reading and rereading the excellent works of Athalya Brenner, on a feminist approach to the Bible. I start with an apology, and some co...
Monday, 8 May 2017

The Sons of God and the Flood

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Genesis 6.1-4   "When mankind began to increase and spread over the earth and daughters were born to them, the sons of the gods (God) ...
Sunday, 7 May 2017

Cain

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After their expulsion from Eden, Adam and Eve had two sons, Cain and Abel. The story is well known: Cain was a farmer who offered crops to G...
Saturday, 6 May 2017

The Bible and Modern Marriage

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 1. Relevance of the Bible today: a rational perspective. Attitudes to marriage and divorce have deep roots in Christian teaching both in E...

Marriage, God's Sacred Institution?

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May Day 2017. Republican Congressman Randy Weber has just spoken to a Christian conservative rally in America. "Father we've trampl...

Adam and Eve

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As promised in my last post on marriage, this is a discussion of Adam and Eve the first married couple and the ancestor/ancestress of the hu...
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