For these reasons, several scholars understand the story as a separate novella-, 21 in any case, we may certainly speak of the Joseph story.

Thus, in terms of external influences on Israel, the biblical period can thus be divided into the following periods: the pre-Assyrian period, the Assyrian period (mid-ninth century-612), the Babylonian period (612-539), the…

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The job of the scientist, like the modern historian, is to analyze competing theories, and on the basis of evidence to…

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In the Middle Ages, perhaps in the late first millennium c.E., scribes shortened Torah, Nevi'im, .-Khtuvim into the acronym 1'JT1, which is pronounced Tanakh.

Thus L 1-2:4a is an ancient Israelite story about the creation of the world, while 2:4b-3:24 is a different story, by a different Israelite author with different ideas,…

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sojourn of Israel in Egypt.19 The fact that the Bible shows relatively little influence from Egypt also suggests that the biblical account of an extended sojourn there by hundreds of thousands of Israelites is not factual.

Genesis 1:27 uses the word ha-adam (0-1N). Generally this is a gender-neutral term, used to convey the meaning "humankind" as well as "a person" of either gender.

"Good and bad" is being used here as a figure of speech called a "merism": two opposite terms are joined by the word "and"; the resulting figure means "everything" or "the ultimate."25 (A merism is likewise used in Genesis 1:1, "heaven and earth," which there means the entire world.) The w

Rather, Torah is a broad term that means "Instruction."