​The First Creation Story:​​​

• Modern science and allegory in the early stories of Genesis

• The first creation account ­— a poem based on number seven and the holiness of the Sabbath

• The names of God in the Bible

• Mythology and the first creation account

• Science and the existence and omnipotence of God

 

The Garden of Eden story:

• When did Adam and Eve live?

• Is the Second Creation story factual or allegorical?

• The Tree of Knowledge of Good and Bad and the serpent

• Reaching for divinity in the Garden of Eden

• Sexuality and the Garden of Eden story

• The Garden of Eden story and the origins of the human condition

• Optimism and immortality from the Garden of Eden Story

 

The Cain and Abel Story:

• Cain and Abel and the moral hazard of the Agricultural Revolution

• ​Cain and Abel's offering to God and the importance of the  firstborn

• At the scene of the crime

 

Noah and the Flood:

• Noah and the flood - an epic poem of mythological proportions 

• ​The Noah story and the names of God

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The Tower of Babel:

• Satire in the Torah and the ziggurat of Babylon

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Abraham's Mission:

• God's seven blessings to Abraham

• Sodom and Gemorra

• The burial of Sarah

• Isaac and Abraham, Ishmael and Hagar- a story yet incomplete

• The Binding of Isaac - the non-event that changed the world

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Jacob and his Children:

• Jacob and Esau - blessings and birthright and Jewish powerlessness

• Joseph - the right person in the right place at the right time

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The Role of Moses:

• God's Two Speeches of Redemption to Moses

• The Egyptian Exodus and Canaanite conquest – facts or fiction?

• Amalek

• Bilaam the magician

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The Purim Story:

• Identifying Achasverosh and Esther​