Word: isaac
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...audiences. Alexander Chirkov's "Genesis of Genesis" attempts to accomplish this with the Biblical story of Genesis. The play is a series of episodes from the first 22 chapters of Genesis, including all the most famous: the Creation, the murder of Abel, the Flood and Abraham's sacrifice of Isaac...
...addition to editing a new book. The Handbook of Social Psychology, Gilbert has written a number of non-scientific works, including. "In the Specimen Jar," a science fiction story for Isaac Asimov's Science Fiction Magazine...
Some of the Bible's most familiar names, places and events, in fact - the Patriarchs Abraham, Isaac and Jacob; King David, the slayer of Goliath; Moses and the Israelites' flight from bondage in Egypt; Joshua's conquest of the Promised Land and the gloomy prophecies of Jeremiah - are being seen in a new light thanks to a flood of recent discoveries. And archaeologists are always seeking new evidence that might help resolve some still-unanswered questions: Did Moses really exist? Did the Exodus happen? Did Joshua fight the Battle of Jericho? Did Jesus drive out the money changers? When...
...other hand, say many scholars, much of what is recorded in the Bible is at best distorted, and some characters and events are probably totally fictional. Most scholars suspect that Abraham, Isaac and Jacob, Judaism's traditional founders, never existed; many doubt the tales of slavery in Egypt and the Exodus; and relatively few modern historians believe in Joshua's conquest of Jericho and the rest of the Promised Land. In the most extreme view, all of the above are complete fabrications, invented centuries after the supposed fact...
Although he was prepared to see the Bible proved wrong in its particulars, Albright assumed it was accurate until proved otherwise. He assumed the existence of Abraham, Isaac and Jacob, for example, and then used circumstantial physical evidence to deduce that they probably lived around 1800 B.C. He accepted the idea of the Exodus from Egypt and military conquest of Canaan (Palestine), and went on to date those events at about...