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The story of Cain and Able is a short one. It is fewer than 300 words. I timed myself reading it and it took fifteen seconds. I consider myself to be well read and I can say, especially given its brevity, I do not believe there exists a more profound story than the story of…

If you recall, this project began with an epilogue for very particular reasons which are outlined in that article. Now we find ourselves at the end of this first section and as we prepare to proceed we do so with a prologue. Before jumping into it, I want to take a moment here and discuss…

I heard your voice in the garden, and I was afraid because I was naked; and I hid myself Genesis 3:10 I Here we are, the temptation and the fall from paradise. In many ways the story of the temptation and the fall from Eden was the corner piece of the jigsaw puzzle for me….

In the beginning there was relation, and in the act of turning toward the other, humanity was born. Martin Buber, I and Thou (1923) Today we bring the second chapter of Genesis to a close with the introduction of Eve. Today’s post will deal with Adam’s need for a helper, the differentiation of humanity into male…

The Lord God planted a garden eastward in Eden, and there he put the man whom he had formed. And out of the ground the lord God made every tree grow that is pleasant to the sight and good for food. The tree of life was also in the midst of the garden, and the…

And the LORD God formed man of the dust of the ground, and breathed into his nostrils the breath of life; and man became a living soul. (Gen. 2:7) And just like that, here in Genesis 2:7, God creates man. Like with so many of the biblical stories, the brevity of the sentence belies the…

Using the KJV, the story of Adam and Eve has a total of eight hundred and ten words. Contained in this incredibly short and dense story are a number of themes. In no particular order and likely not exhaustive we see the themes of the divine order, the relationship between God and humanity, free will,…

After creating the heavens and the earth from the deep which was void and without form, God sets to the task of creating the world. Between Genesis 1:3-25 there is a lot going on and most of it is quite subtle. It will bear careful consideration before we get to the creation of man.  …

Here we are. To the best of my ability I’ve attempted, in the last twenty-five posts, to create a primer for this moment. Beginning with the importance of the image of the shepherd in the ancient world to the Mesopotamian and Egyptian cosmogonies which preceded the ancient Hebrews, to how various scientific disciplines have found…

As mentioned in several posts already, the closest the modern world has to the biblical  understanding of the world comes from American Pragmatism and Phenomenology. For both the pragmatist and phenomenologist, that which is experienced is that which is real. For instance, in his seminal work and arguably the seminal work of phenomenology,  Sein und…