Welcome to my presentation of Biblical origins and its development. The contents and mode of presentation may sometimes appear
strange to some it will most certainly anger or amuse some believing
Christians and serious Biblical scholars. This is because what you will
read here is not often made accessible to the ordinary reader of the
Bible and their contact with scientific examination of the Bible is
rare.
It is my wish to share with you new insights and knowledge gained by
scientific study of the Bible and hope this will lead to new
perspectives and fresh new approaches. Many tend to regard the Bible as
a book, which was completed in one sitting yet the Bible, has a long,
interesting and sometimes complicated history.
The following intends to show that the Old Testament contains
different traditions arising from different quarters and different
times. The average reader is not always aware of the differences but on
closer inspection the "seams" of these traditions become more and more
apparent.
The Old Testament was written over a period of almost a thousand
years. Some of the individual books evolved over a period of centuries
and was therefore not completed by one single writer, and because most
of these writers lived in different times and different circumstances
far removed from one another they tend to add to the scriptures from a
different viewpoint.
The Bible is a book written by people who in all manner of
circumstances reflected on who God is what he does and where he is
heading with the history of the world. As the Israelites and their
ancestors experienced various circumstances and cultural phases they
gained various religious insights.
Before we can make a historical reconstruction of how the Bible came
about we have to know first of all who are the Hebrews, their origins
and who they worshipped. The Hebrews that conceived God from different
circumstances and from different viewpoints throughout the ages and at
the best we can only make a historical reconstruction of the progress of
Israel's conception of God as reflected in the Old Testament.
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findings on the Bible
