[OT] Welcome

Thanks to those of you who just signed up for the Old-Testament group!

This list is an open forum for any sort of discussion regarding items related to the Old Testament (except proselyting or bashing).

Please feel free to post, ask questions, state your opinion, introduce topics, etc...   Everyone is welcome!

Personally, I've been interested in understanding the early chapters of Genesis and the context of that book.  I'm cleaning up some old notes and posting them.  They're based on a nice commentary by Umberto Cassuto's on the early chapters of Genesis up through the flood, plus some other stuff I've run across on the Internet.

I'm fascinated with how the early Middle Eastern religions viewed the universe, and how it was created.  Genesis seems to hint at, and challenge the conceptions of it's neighbors.  There are both similarities and stark contrasts -- between the Hebrews and the Canaanites/ Babylonians/ Akkadians/ Sumerians/ Egyptians.  I've been trying to understand each of their views of how the Universe was created (cosomgenies) and compare them.

Here is what has been posted recently (oldest at the bottom).

	Canaan Cosmogony
	Babylonian Cosmogony
	Sumerian Cosmogony
	Early Middle Eastern Chronology
	Days of Creation
	Rahab & Pre-biblical poetic epics
	Firmament
	References to Mesopotamian gods in Genesis 1:2
	Extra-Genesis biblical creation references
	Monotheism in the middle east

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