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Contents

Introduction

SECTION ONE

THE BOOK OF GENESIS

Unit One: The Creation and the Fall

1. The Creation Story(s)

2. The Second Creation Story

3. The Fall of Humanity

4. The Consequences of Sin

5. Cain and Abel

6. The Long Ages

7. Noah and the Great Flood

8. Sloppy Drunk Noah

9. Tower of Babel

10. Is All of This Literal?

Unit Two: God Conceives a Blessing Culture

11. The Call of Abram and Sarai

12. Abram and Sarai’s Undulating Faith

13. Circumcision and the Three Visitors

14. The Testing of Abraham

15. Isaac Marries His Cousin Rebekah

16. Jacob, Esau, and Tribal Leadership

17. Rachel, Leah, Bilhah, and Zilpah

18. Jacob Wrestles with a Man? an Angel? God?

19. Joseph and Promises Fulfilled

20. Abraham’s Family Is the Foundation

SECTION TWO

EXODUS, WILDERNESS, CONQUEST, AND THE JUDGES

Unit One: The Exodus: Forty Years in the Wilderness and the Halacha

21. Reviewing Genesis

22. Escape from Egypt

23. “Hangry” and Scared

24. The Ten Commandments

25. The Golden Calf and the Presence of God

26. The Tabernacle, Ark, and Priesthood

27. The Pathway of God: Halacha

28. More of the Halacha and the People Complain

29. Shema, Blessings, and Curses

30. A Bronze Snake and Balaam’s Ass

31. The “Voice of God”

Unit Two: Joshua and the Conquest of Canaan, the Dark Period of the Judges, and the Call of Samuel

32. Canaan as a Symbolic Abstraction

33. Joshua and the Conquest of Canaan

34. The Period of the Judges

35. Canaanite Religion and Biblical Interpretation

36. Gideon, Jephthah, and Shibboleth

37. Samson the Antihero

38. Ruth and the Stages of Israel’s Life

39. Job, the Man from Uz

40. Job’s Three (Four) Friends

41.God Answers Job

42. The Call of Samuel

43. The Philistines

SECTION THREE

UNITED MONARCHY, DIVIDED MONARCHY, THE PROPHETS

Unit One: The Rise and Fall of Saul, the Rise and Fall of David

44. Israel Demands a King

45. Things Fall Apart

46. God Anoints David

47. Saul Chases after David

48. David Rises to the Throne

49. David Builds Unity

50. David and Bathsheba

51. David’s House Falls Apart

52. The Parents Eat Sour Grapes: Three-Fold Interpretation

53. Biblical Inspiration

Unit Two: The Reign of Solomon, the Temple, the Divided Kingdom, and the Prophets

54. Abishag the Shunammite

55. Wisdom

56. Downfall of Solomon

57. Fertility Religions and the Prophet Elijah

58. Elisha the Miracle Worker

59. Assyria Attacks from the North: Isaiah, Hosea, Amos

60. The Babylonian Conquest: Jeremiah the Weeping Prophet

61. Ezekiel the Street Artist and Daniel the Slave

62. The Valley of Dry Bones and Daniel, Part 2

63. Freedom from Persia: Ezra, Nehemiah, Esther

64. The Chronicles and the Stages of Israel, Part 2

SECTION FOUR

CHRISTIANITY EMERGES OUT OF JUDAISM

Unit One: Messiah, Healer, Teacher, Divinity

65. The Chronicles

66. Messianic Expectations

67. John the Baptizer

68. Jesus the Healer, Part 1

69. Jesus the Healer, Part 2

70. The Divinity of Jesus: God and Human

71. Divinity Continued

72. Jesus the Rabbi

73. Temple Sacrifice and Synagogue Teaching

74. The Parables of Jesus

75. The Practice of Abstraction

Unit Two: The Passion, Atonement, Resurrection, The Church, and Apostles

76. The Passion and Resurrection of Christ

77. Atonement of the Cross

78. Blood and Nonblood Atonements

79. Jonah and Blessed to Bless

80. Jesus and the Canaanite Woman

81. The Great Commission and Acts of the Apostles

82. The Conversion of Paul for the Gentiles

83. Disciples and Apostles

84. The Twelve Apostles: Go Give God to Everybody

85. Paul Continued

86. The Epistles and The Revelation to John

Epilogue: Jesus is the Way of Love

Acknowledgments

Appendix A: Bible Vocabulary Concepts

Appendix B: Books of the Bible Songs