Genesis 5; Moses 6 Quotes and Notes

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  2. I really enjoy the history part for it puts it into connection with the world events. The connection between Hebrew, & Greek to King James Version fills in a lot of gaps. Thank you for your time and sharing
    your geeky knowledge

    1. Author

      Thanks Beth. We are so glad that this podcast is working for you and your studies! We look forward to an excellent year studying the Old Testament!
      -Mike

  3. I love how you make a point of agency. I will be using that in my primary class. I also liked how you compared the garden to the choice to come to earth. My class is going to have fun with this.

    1. Me too! The Garden of Eden story is told so much like a fairly tale that it makes sense that in many ways it’s a loose story of Adam and Eve done in a way that lets us view our own selves in their place, choosing to leave an almost idyllic place to have a chance to be more like God through tough times.

      1. Thank you!! I would say it 10,000 times if I could. The show notes are so thorough and have provided some amazing resources. Can you offer any more resources to better understand the tree Symbolism as the Divine Feminine. I know of this and many talk about it as fact, but would love to better know where it comes from and how we devised that symbolic representation. I will start with the references in the show notes, but would love more if you have any? Thank you!

        1. Author

          Thanks for the kind words, Raeshell, and for giving the podcast a go. The tree symbolism as it relates to a divine feminine deity can be traced in the text of some of the Biblical works, in archaeology, and (in my opinion) the Book of Mormon. It certainly is complicated, and we only have pieces, but if you want a quick list of some books to consider I would probably start with the following:

          1. William Dever’s Did God Have a Wife?: Archaeology and Folk Religion in Ancient Israel (2008) This book may be a bit dry for a general audience, but I really love Dever’s stuff, and he knows his field. If you don’t want to read the book, he gives a presentation on this topic you can see here.

          2. Margaret Barker’s The Mother of the Lord: Volume 1: The Lady in the Temple (2012). She is an excellent Biblical scholar and really is able to get into other sources to show connections. I cannot say enough about this work. I hope she finishes Volume 2 soon.

          3. Raphael Patai’s The Hebrew Goddess (1990).

          4. Susan Ackerman’s Under Every Green Tree: Popular Religion in Sixth-Century Judah (1992). This is a bit on the academic side, and we still only have faint pictures, but Ackerman works to demonstrate (as Dever does) that the reforms of the 7th century which were preserved in the text of the Old Testament were not the majority view, that “sheer numbers would be on the side of popular religion.” To Ackerman, that popular religion gave space for the Queen of Heaven. Like I may have mentioned in the podcast, this view is not for everyone, and I am certainly not declaring doctrine. I am just a student of the texts looking at stuff. I wasn’t there. Neither were these scholars. But the texts are giving us clues. And we are supposed to ask questions.

          5. Probably the next thing I would recommend you read is the footnotes to whatever thread you find exciting. Part of why I like these books is that these authors have cited their sources so well and I found many of their sources accessible. If this is a journey you really want to pursue, it would be worth it for you to gain access to JSTOR, something your local university would help you with.

          Best wishes on your journey!
          -Mike

          1. Mike:

            Thank you for the great reply. These are awesome! I have listened to Margaret Barker on a few things and generally really enjoy what she has to say. I will add this and many of the others to my list.

            I truly want to understand as much as I can. I feel a need to understand it, a role we women have to come into, realize, understand and it’s important we, or maybe just I, do realize it. ha.

            Thanks again, I so much enjoy your willingness to ask questions and explore more. I think it’s vital we do. I also think it is vital we search, ponder and pray for ourselves in all things, church doctrine, academic wanderings, just ideas, the Lord will lead us to truth in it all. I appreciate you both!

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