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  The Creation Story of Genesis 1 in its literary context

  by Leolaia in

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  genesis 1 , the priestly (p) account of creation, has often been compared with the enuma elish, the akkadian creation myth.

  some have claimed that p is dependent on the latter, but this is highly improbable.

  in terms of similarities, most note the parallel of marduk splitting the body of the sea-monster tiamat and creating the heavens and earth from it, and elohim's division of the thwm "watery deep" (hebrew cognate of akkadian tiamat) into the heavens, earth, and seas.

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  Book: The Great Angel: A Study of Israel's Second God

  by ikthuce4u in

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  by margaret barker ... has anyone here (@ jwd) read it?

  i have it on order from amazon.com -- (link) -- http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/tg/detail/-/0664253954/qid=1079173431/sr=1-1/ref=sr_1_1/103-9850443-5827053?v=glance&s=books

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  Necromancy and the god Wada'anu/Addu

  by Leolaia in

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  according to leviticus 20:27, "any man or woman who has a ghost ('wb) or who has a familiar spirit (yd'ny) will be put to death".

  the law in deuteronomy 18:11 also commands the israelites to not "consult ghosts (ws'l 'wb) nor familiar spirits (wyd'ny), nor attempt to communicate with the dead (wdrs 'l-hmtym)".

  in 1 samuel 28:7-13, the spirit medium of en-dor "consulted ghosts ('wb)".

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  Why Did El Shaddai become Jehovah? Attention Leolaia

  by jst2laws in

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  dear leolaia

  from reading your research, which is wonderful, i'm confused about what moses was trying to say in exodus.

  and god went on to speak to moses and to say to him: ?i am jehovah.

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  Greetings ....

  by ikthuce4u in

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  my real name is "rick" and i'm new here.

  i normally post at beliefnet.com and was referred here (from there) to a particular thread, on a topic i was interested in.

  i'm having some posting-problems here ... basically, i'm unable to get into "chat" and tried to send a message to someone who had been posting on that topic i was interested in (but it didn't "go" for some reason).

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  The Bible and the Canaanite "Book of Balaam bar-Beor" (8th century B.C.)

  by Leolaia in

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  in earlier posts, i have described how heroes, kings, and other legendary characters from canaanite lore were incorporated in the ot either through direct allusion or exaptation as literary characters in new distinctively israelite stories.

  the legend of danel, the father of aqhat, is directly mentioned in ezekiel 14:12-20, 28:1-3 and was likely reused as source material in the cycles of legends about the righteous judge job, the young warrior david, and the prophet elisha (cf.

  the legends surrounding the rephaim kings revered in bashan and who the canaanite leaders regarded as their ancestors contributed to the biblical stories about the mighty nephilim and rephaim warriors and the giant og, king of bashan (cf.

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  The skinny on the Leviathan and Rahab monsters

  by Leolaia in

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  the primeval conflict myth is a staple of greek, hittite, canaanite, babylonian, and even hindu myth, and the canaanite version appears throughout the ot and even turns up in the christian apocalypse of revelation.

  this post will survey the literary evidence of the myth in the bible and in ancient literature.

  in revelation, jesus is the messiah-figure whose birth is depicted in ch.

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