Understanding Genesis 11: The Tower of Babel…and yet One More Genealogy
Genesis 1-11 ends with the famous story of the Tower of Babel (Genesis 11:1-9—which surprisingly takes up only nine verses), and then yet one more genealogy, th...
Month: October 2018
Understanding Genesis 9-10: Blessing, Covenant, and a Drunken Old Man
Genesis 9 is a fun chapter. Yes, the actual flood story in Genesis 6-8 tends to get the most attention, but at least as far as I’m concerned, Genesis 9 has two ...
Understanding Genesis 6-8: The Story of Noah’s Flood (And its Similarities and Differences with Gilgamesh)
Compared to everyone else in Genesis 1-11, Noah gets the most ink by far. The story of Noah’s flood goes from Genesis 6:5 to the end of chapter 8. And then, Noa...
Jesus and Foxholes: Political Idolatry, and the Hate it Brings
I haven’t been writing on my blog much for the past month. In fact, I think this is only the second post in the past 4-5 weeks. Part of the reason for that is b...