The Secret Bible: A Secular ApproachSts. Jude imPress, 2006 - 192 עמודים The basic thesis of The Secret Bible: A Secular Approach to the Bible is that the traditions which comprise the Hebrew Bible (the Old Testament) were in their original form secular. It was only later when the existence of the Jewish people was threatened that the texts that made up the Bible were religionized, that is, God was made the center of the stories and histories and was seen as the single, all-powerful deity who had a special relationship to the Jewish people. Before the Bible was religionized, Israelite society was much like the others in the ancient Middle East with a secular government and sacrificial cult centered on altars in various temples. Many of the laws found in the legal codes of the first fivebooks of the Bible are secular. The stories of the first Hebrew found in the Pentateuch are essentially secular accounts of families and their problems. Religious elements were later added. The secular nature of the Bible will make it more accessible to those readers who do not accept God as the author of history and in control of nature. |
מתוך הספר
תוצאות 1-5 מתוך 31
עמוד 10
... evil , and from the tree of life ( 2.9 , 16-17 ; 3.22-24 ) . Like children , they almost immediately do the one thing forbidden them . After they eat from the tree of knowledge , they are punished , and prevented from eating from the ...
... evil , and from the tree of life ( 2.9 , 16-17 ; 3.22-24 ) . Like children , they almost immediately do the one thing forbidden them . After they eat from the tree of knowledge , they are punished , and prevented from eating from the ...
עמוד 43
... evil on you ... " ( 23.3,4,6,15 ) . The conquest was seen as complete after all the inhabitants had been annihilated : " So Joshua defeated the whole land , the hill country and the Negeb and the lowland and the slopes , and all their ...
... evil on you ... " ( 23.3,4,6,15 ) . The conquest was seen as complete after all the inhabitants had been annihilated : " So Joshua defeated the whole land , the hill country and the Negeb and the lowland and the slopes , and all their ...
עמוד 49
... evil son , Abimelech , who asserts himself as king and meets an ignoble death , reinforces this anti - monarchical viewpoint . There are , at the same time , clear indications that Gideon was himself an idolater and that his society was ...
... evil son , Abimelech , who asserts himself as king and meets an ignoble death , reinforces this anti - monarchical viewpoint . There are , at the same time , clear indications that Gideon was himself an idolater and that his society was ...
עמוד 52
... evil - doers ; the tribe of Benjamin was attacked and 25,000 of them were killed ( 19-21 ) . This secular story begins and ends with the mantra , ' In those days when there was no king in Israel ... ( 19.1 ; 21,25 ) . ' Clearly , it was ...
... evil - doers ; the tribe of Benjamin was attacked and 25,000 of them were killed ( 19-21 ) . This secular story begins and ends with the mantra , ' In those days when there was no king in Israel ... ( 19.1 ; 21,25 ) . ' Clearly , it was ...
עמוד 55
... evil , his protégé , Samuel was quite different . God spoke to Eli : " I will raise up for myself a faithful priest , who shall do according to what is in my heart and in my mind " ( 2.35 ) . Samuel seems to have served a rather large ...
... evil , his protégé , Samuel was quite different . God spoke to Eli : " I will raise up for myself a faithful priest , who shall do according to what is in my heart and in my mind " ( 2.35 ) . Samuel seems to have served a rather large ...
מונחים וביטויים נפוצים
Abraham Absalom Achish Ahab Ahaziah Amos Aram army Asherah Assyria Baal Babylon Babylonia Biblical Bilhah blessing Book of Esther books of Samuel brothers Canaan Canaanite chapters clear commandments conflict conquered conquest covenant David death defeated deity destroyed Deuteronomic historians Deuteronomy Ecclesiastes Egypt enemies Esau essentially secular Esther evil exile Exodus Ezra faith father Genesis God's gods hand Hebrew Bible holy human ideology idolatry Isaac Isaiah Israel Israelite society Israelites Jacob Jereboam Jeremiah Jewish Jews Joab Jonathan Joseph Joshua Josiah Judaea Judah Judges killed king kingdom land laws live Lord of hosts Manasseh Moab monarchy monolatry monotheism Mordecai Moses narratives nations Nehemiah northern tribes Numbers offerings Philistines priesthood priestly priests prophets punishment Rachel reign religious role sacralized sacred account sacrifices sacrificial cult Samuel Saul Saul's says the Lord secular secular account servant sins Solomon Song sons survival Temple in Jerusalem Torah worship Yahweh