My interest, however, is in reading the Bible like an ancient Israelite,2 what is often called reading the Bible from a historical-critical perspective.

Thus L 1-2:4a is an ancient Israelite story about the creation of the world, while 2:4b-3:24 is a different story, by a different Israelite author with different ideas,…

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In each of these retellings, Abraham's role is rewritten so that he is a victim of circumstances.

More significantly, they allowed exiled peoples to live together in their own communities in Babylon, forming ethnic neighborhoods in which earlier religious and cultural practices could and did flourish.22 In contrast, the Assyrians had made forced population transfers, mixing together defeated peoples from various places so that their ethnic

The job of the scientist, like the modern historian, is to analyze competing theories, and on the basis of evidence to…

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The first step for reading the beginning of Genesis is complete. We know that the story that begins in 1:1 ends at 2:4a. This is a significant step, since it allows us, encourages us, or perhaps even forces us to…

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paragraph units by placing white space between units.2 These white spaces are of two types: short ones called setumah (rThiT1~, "closed"), where the next unit continues on thesame line; and longer ones called petcchah (rT[11T1E), "open"), where the rest of the line…

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The chapter numbers now found in Bibles are not integral to the text. Rather, they date from the…

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However, the context of this verse suggests that it means merely that men will determine when couples engage in sexual inter- course.26