Titlebook: God, the Bible, and Human Consciousness; Nancy Tenfelde Clasby Book 2008 Nancy Tenfelde Clasby 2008 Bible.consciousness.god.history.Inuit.

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Job, unthinkable multitudes in chorus—God’s glory, in short—leaves Job stunned. The disjunction in scale between human awareness and the enormous reality of the divine transforms Job. He is speechless because what he experiences carries him to a wisdom beyond any human matrix. “I had heard of your by th

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Reading the New Testament,ead” is bound to the others. Every seven and twelve resonates with its antecedents. The New Testament is a meditation or a midrash on the Hebrew Scriptures. Symbol is the native language of the Bible; neither literalism nor iconoclasm provides a good translation.

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Last Things,rtainly that is evident in the images of hell as an eternal pit of flame. In James Joyce’s . (151–52), a sermon on hell-fire describes eternity using the image of a bird endlessly circling a mountain of fine sand. Once in a million years she touches down and carries away a grain of sand in her beak.

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Introduction: ,, and Truth,ives about the Big Picture. A broad scholarly movement crossing disciplinary lines, ranging from archaeology to zoology, suggests provocative theories about the origins of all sorts of things—speech, time, music, professional sports. “Big History” challenges micro-history. David Christian makes the

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Genesis: Creation and Fall,od swept over the face of the waters” (Gen. 1:2). Dark seas, endless empty wastes without horizon or limit, a silent wind, God’s spirit, broods high over the sea. “Then God said, ‘Let there be light’; and there was light” (Gen. 1:3). God creates with his word. He articulates reality and light appear

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The Ancestors,s approached on a literal level: Was there . a man named Abram? Or are the patriarchs fictional characters? Beyond a few lists of rulers’ names we have little positive evidence corroborating the court histories of the ancient world. The possibility of finding independent records of an obscure tribal

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Existential Exodus, reality. Moses, myth-hero, confronts existential questions that continue to preoccupy modern and postmodern thinkers. Moderns do not speak of competing gods—true gods, false gods—because the dilemma has shifted from issues of true/false to a reassessment of language and meaning. As the development

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Power: Kings and Prophets,’s account of the rise of the Israelite kingship is unsparing in its analysis of the monarchy, and the prophetic books record many disastrous distortions of royal power. As Stephen L. Harris points out, Mesopotamian histories routinely describe rulers as “descended from heaven” (2000, 168–70). Like