Is the Flood Account a Beautiful Story about Rainbows?
Of all the violent texts in the Old Testament, the portrayal of the flood in Genesis 6–8 may be the most difficult text to understand. As I was struggling with the way the flood is presented in...
View ArticleTroubled Translations of Genesis 6:13
When I first sat down to study and research the flood account through the lens of Jesus Christ, I initially thought that the key to this text was found in faulty English translations. We must admit...
View ArticleThe Waters of the Flood and ANE Cosmology
In seeking to understand what is going on in the account of the flood and why the waters that came upon the earth, we must understand the Ancient Near East cosmology. That is, what they thought about...
View ArticleWhy the Traditional Understanding of the Flood is Wrong
Yesterday I presented a way of reading about the flood that was different than the traditional way the flood account is usually read. Certainly, the way I have proposed is challenging, but let us think...
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