Now that I’ve started talking about the Hebrew Bible on the blog, I think maybe I’ll keep talking about it for a bit. Let’s start at the beginning. As in “In the Beginning…”
Lots of people know that (some) fundamentalist Christians insist the beginning was when the world was created “6000 years ago.” But most of those people don’t know where the idea came from. (It’s not stated, of course, in the Bible itself. If you find dates in the margins of your Bible, it’s because
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