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 35
עמוד v
... HAND ΤΟ VALIDATE ( OR NOT ) MY CONTENTION , INTERPRETATIONS . CONCLUSIONS AND 1 Editorial note : the synopses lying after each chapter # and its texts are the editor's not the author's . Any errors are the editor's . THE BIBLE ...
... HAND ΤΟ VALIDATE ( OR NOT ) MY CONTENTION , INTERPRETATIONS . CONCLUSIONS AND 1 Editorial note : the synopses lying after each chapter # and its texts are the editor's not the author's . Any errors are the editor's . THE BIBLE ...
עמוד 23
... hand , he purposely blesses Ephraim , the younger , thereby favoring him over the older . It's another protest against primogeniture , and the carrying out of the old conflicts . Though Joseph protested , Jacob insisted . He was willful ...
... hand , he purposely blesses Ephraim , the younger , thereby favoring him over the older . It's another protest against primogeniture , and the carrying out of the old conflicts . Though Joseph protested , Jacob insisted . He was willful ...
עמוד 36
... hand for hand , foot for foot , burn for burn , wound for wound , stripe for stripe " ( 21.23-25 ) . " If someone steals an ox or a sheep , and slaughters it or sells it , the thief shall pay five oxen for an ox , and four sheep for a ...
... hand for hand , foot for foot , burn for burn , wound for wound , stripe for stripe " ( 21.23-25 ) . " If someone steals an ox or a sheep , and slaughters it or sells it , the thief shall pay five oxen for an ox , and four sheep for a ...
עמוד 45
... hand toward Ai ; for I will give it into your hand . ' ( 8.18 ; 1 , 2 , 7b , 8b ) . Other secular elements include tribal conflicts over the allotment of apportioned land , possibly reflecting later intertribal dissension ( 17.1-17 ) ...
... hand toward Ai ; for I will give it into your hand . ' ( 8.18 ; 1 , 2 , 7b , 8b ) . Other secular elements include tribal conflicts over the allotment of apportioned land , possibly reflecting later intertribal dissension ( 17.1-17 ) ...
עמוד 49
... hand , Gideon refuses the offer to become king and to begin a dynastic monarchy ; for him , God is the ruler . This is evidence of the continuing power of the old elites . Gideon's evil son , Abimelech , who asserts himself as king and ...
... hand , Gideon refuses the offer to become king and to begin a dynastic monarchy ; for him , God is the ruler . This is evidence of the continuing power of the old elites . Gideon's evil son , Abimelech , who asserts himself as king and ...
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