Frans and Tory

Three reasons why I believe the Bible is not a book and should be treated as an ancient library of redacted sources.

The Authors are many and most are unknown;
Much of the text contains redacted, often competing sources
Much of the Scripture is the reinterpretation of of earlier scripture.

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Three reasons why I believe the Bible is not a book and should be treated as an ancient library of redacted sources. I share a bit from my own story.

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In this final instalment we attempt to show that Genesis 1 is the final Israelite evolution of the ancient Chaoskampf myth.

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Why were Storm Gods so ubiquitous throughout ancient human culture? What has that got to do with YHWH? Why the storm-god Baal is the main rival god in the Hebrew Bible. Is the Book of  Revelation's antecedent, the Book of Daniel, also based on Storm God &  Chaoskampf  motifs?

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Reading from the ancient Ugaritic tablets, we explore the similarities between ancient Canaanite myth and some older parts of the Bible. We then turn our attention to the New Testament book of Revelation, to show how it continues the Chaoscampf motif. of the seven-headed dragon from the sea into the 1st Century Christianity.

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In this session we move to discuss the other ancient myths in Mesopotamia and the Levant that contain the Sea-Monster motif. We also highlight the reasons why scholars consider early Yahwism to be similar to Canaanite religion.

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We work through the appearances and applications of the 'Sea monster' motif in the Hebrew Bible - Job, Isaiah, Ezekiel and Psalms. We consider the process of demythologising this motif by later writers..

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We consider some  Biblical accounts of Yahweh, smashing the head of the Sea monster in accounts that are link to creation / the ordering of the Cosmos.

References:
- Leviathan: Job 3:8, 41:1; Ps 74:14, 104:26; Is 27:1.
- Rahab: Job 9:13, 26:12; Ps 87:4, 89:10; Is 30:7, 51:9.
- Tannin: Gen 1:21; Is 27:1, 51:9; Job 7:12; Ps 44:19, 74:13, 148:7; Eze 29:3, 32:2; Jer 51:34

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After a short introduction, we consider the three possible approaches we can take to the strange accounts of the 'sea-monster myth' in the Hebrew Scriptures.

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The Story of the Golden Calf gives us another unexpected glimpse into the mind of the writers of Exodus, confirming further our suspicions of Exodus  being largely Myth or legend telling rather than accurate history.

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