When the King James translation was produced in 1611, nothing was known of geology or cosmology. Anthropology was an unknown science, and the history of the ancient Near East has come to light only since the late 1800s. As a result the translators of the “Authorized...
Creation- Genesis and Origins
Genesis and the Big Bang examines the age of the universe and our earth.
Creation Genesis and Origins – Putting It All Together
Approximately 3,000 years of biblical history lies between the time of Adam’s introduction near Eridu in southern Mesopotamia about 7,000 years ago until Sumer is destroyed around 4,000 years ago and Abraham departs for Canaan. The historicity of Genesis 2-11 is...
Creation Genesis and Origins – Searching for the Tower
Early explorers ventured into the land of “Arabian Nights” seeking adventure, fame, prestige, honor, glory, knowledge, trinkets, and a certain elusive tower. The 20th century brought forth a new breed of explorer, as much bent on returning souvenirs to their homeland...
Creation Genesis and Origins – Making Sense of Babel
The Tower of Babel was constructed during the timeframe that towers were being built all over Mesopotamia and Persia. Mud brick platforms constructed initially to survive spring floods grew over time to become temples to honor and worship whatever pagan god protected...
Creation Genesis and Origins – Tower of Babel Less Confusing
After the flood, platforms constructed in the Mesopotamian cities began to grow and take on religious connotations. Mud brick mounds that had originally been constructed to survive floods became ziggurats adorned with temples of worship, the dwelling places of the...
Creation, Genesis and Origins Out and About
Noah’s family remained concentrated near the mountainous region where the ark landed and where Noah planted his vineyard. According to Jubilees, Noah’s three sons divided themselves into three different cities named for their wives. Their families grew over 350 years...
Creation, Genesis and Origins Locating the Ark
Commonalities between Mesopotamian texts and the Genesis narrative underscore its’ historicity. It was Ziusudra, hero of the flood, who “kept the name of mankind alive” according to the Sumerian composition. His name translates “life of prolonged or distant days.” He...
Creation, Genesis and Origins End of the Voyage
Where did the ark come to rest? The landing site has been a subject of dispute for centuries. Ancient reports of ark sightings abounded from 400 BC to the 13th century AD. Modern reports, some suspicious, have occurred up until today. Over the centuries, eight...
Creation, Genesis and Origins The Mesopotamian Flood
Evidence for the great flood of Noah’s day from historical and archaeological sources is examined and compared to the Genesis record. Who was the target of the flood? Who survived? The judgment of the Mesopotamian flood at around 2900 BC was upon those who were...
Creation, Genesis and Origins Angels and Giants
The "sons of God” in Genesis 6:2, who are they? Some contend these are angels, perhaps fallen angels. But is that the case here? The Hebrew phrase in this passage, and elsewhere in the Old Testament, can refer to angels, but the same term also describes humans who...
Creation, Genesis and Origins Adam and Associates
Adam and his generations fit into a historical time and place. The time is approximately seven thousand years ago in the region the Hebrews called “Shinar” in the Old Testament that we know as Sumer, southern Mesopotamia, present-day Iraq. A land associated with the...
Creation, Genesis and Origins Adams Family
Looking at the subject of a historical Adam we have to face a reality. Either Adam was a real-life, flesh and blood, God-fearing human being, or he wasn’t. There is no intermediate position. We either have Adam wearing his fig leaf, or we have Adam who was only a...
Creation, Genesis and Origins -Legend of Adapa
Several fragments of the "Legend of Adapa" were taken from the Library of Assyrian King Ashurbanipal at Nineveh. One also was found in the Egyptian archives of Amenophis III and IV of the fourteenth century BC. All but one is written in Akkadian. According to the...
Creation, Genesis and Origins Leaving the Garden
Adam has a place in redemptive history. As God's ambassador, he was the first person who had access to God's kingdom which required simple obedience. We can only guess at what Adam might have done had he remained obedient. Created in the “image of God,” Adam was a...
Creation, Genesis and Origins The Sumerian King List
The Sumerian King Lists are among the curiosities that have never been explored, explained or understood. These lists were found in some of the oldest cities in Mesopotamia and contain the names of kings who reputedly reigned over the entire region before the flood...