Macedonians, Albanians and other nationalities inhabit this territory. For a long period of time the Albanians were fighting (from the political disputes to open conflicts) for their recognition as a state-nation. The Armed Conflict 2001 brought the country to the brink of civil war, but the ...
Already the editors of the Torah recognized the discrepancies between the two creation stories in Genesis 1 and 2–3 and made redactional alignments so the two stories would read better next to each other. Such awareness is also evident among the earlies
Furthermore, the above contradictions in Genesis can be removed if read from the view of a true believer. We could easily interpret the curse of Canaan as a justification for wrongdoers to compensate those they harmed. The most probable...
Genesis 1 nor its larger cultural context. Rather, for this author’eretsmeant the material substance earth, the ground beneath one’s feet. So the text is talking about the creation of the material substance earth and furthermore its creation as dry, habitable, life-sustaining land from an i...
But even as regards matters of fact, the existence of anachronisms requires to be placed beyond doubt, before they can have any weight in such a case, just because of the improbability of a writer who wished his work to pass as that of an earlier age allowing such contradictions. To ...
§ 1. —Biblical Data: The first book of the Torah, and therefore of the whole Bible, is called by the Jews "Bereshit," after the initial word; by the Septuagint and by Philo it is called Γύνεσις (κόσμου) = "origin" (of the world), after the contents, and...
and the process will begin again. In time, I hope this will become an all-inclusive list of inconsistencies, fallacies, and contradictions found in Genesis. This will also include lists of responses and “solutions” to the contradictions from the perspectives of believers of literal and not-so...
Genesis 1 “earth” does not mean the planet Earth. Genesis reports the origin of the “heavens and earth” as such terms meant in the author’s time and within his worldview, which did not include a twenty-first century acquaintance with astronomy. What does “earth” mean in Genesis 1...
forms and has formed what we callcreationstories.Creationstories differ in each culture and religion‚ but they all contain the same archetypal elements that can be easily related to one another. The CelticCreationStory andGenesisare two that can be compared without difficulty. The elements found...
Continued fromGENESIS, 1-2. ⇒See also the McClintock and Strong Biblical Cyclopedia. III. The Structure of the Individual Pericopes. In this division of the article, there is always to be found (under 1) a consideration of the unity of the Biblical text and (under 2) the rejection of...