Is the Book of Genesis Weird?

Lev Roemmerbet

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This spirituality book delves into the Book of Genesis and addresses a host of questions surrounding the stories and messages within.

It’s easy to select and interpret some of the tales of the Book of Genesis that narrate contradictory stories of the same event, which means that one of the stories or the two of them are false. In Is the Book of Genesis Weird?, author Lev Roemmerbet analyzes and slightly rejects some contradictions and lies presented in the book of Genesis as if they were true.

Written to help you to develop abilities to evaluate and reason, he addresses a host of questions about Genesis:

Aren’t the myths of the book of Genesis adapted from the Egyptian and from the Mesopotamian myths?
Where did God come from, and where was he before he created the heavens and the earth?
Did God create man or did man
create God?
What is Eden?
Did the Lord extradite Adam so he (the Lord) could freely create Cain and Abel?
Did Abram impregnate Hagar (his second and simultaneous wife) hermaphroditically?
Was Seth the first hermaphrodite son that God created with Eve, as Isaac was the “son-on-the-knees” that the Lord created with Sarah?

Is the Book of Genesis Weird? helps you discover some of the irreconcilable contradictions, immoralities, and lies within the Book of Genesis. It encourages you to not be afraid to acquire valuable knowledge and not to become Bible literate.

Sujets

• Biblical Interpretation
• Biblical Criticism
• Philosophie et théologie
• God
• Old Testament
• Religion
• Genesis
• Bible

Informations

• Publié par: Archway Publishing
• Date de parution: 14 juillet 2022
• Nombre de lectures: 0
• EAN13: 9781665721318
• Langue: English
• Poids de l'ouvrage: 1 Mo

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IS THE BOOK OF GENESIS WEIRD?
Is Weird the Way our Society was Made?
LEV ROEMMERBET


 
Copyright © 2022 Lev Roemmerbet.
 
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ISBN: 978-1-6657-2130-1 (sc)
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Library of Congress Control Number: 2022906101
 
 
 
Archway Publishing rev. date: 07/14/2022
Contents
Dedication
Preface
About This Volume
PART ONE
Chapter 1
Chapter 2
Chapter 3
Chapter 4
Chapter 5
Chapter 6
Chapter 7
Chapter 8
Chapter 9
Chapter 10
Chapter 11
PART TWO
Chapter 12
Chapter 13
Chapter 14
Chapter 15
Chapter 16
Chapter 17
Chapter 18
Chapter 19
Chapter 20
Chapter 21
Chapter 22
Chapter 23
Chapter 24
Chapter 25
Chapter 26
PART THREE
Chapter 27
Chapter 28
Chapter 29
Chapter 30
Chapter 31
Chapter 32
Chapter 33
Chapter 34
Chapter 35
PART FOUR
Chapter 36
Chapter 37
Chapter 38
Chapter 39
Chapter 40
Chapter 41
Chapter 42
Chapter 43
Chapter 44
Chapter 45
Chapter 46
Chapter 47
Chapter 48
Chapter 49
Chapter 50
 
Some Final Words
Notes
Dedication
I especially dedicate this book to my wife, my children and grandchildren; to all educators: parents, teachers, and those who work in Radio and T.V., and in the printed and/or social media; to all who want to freely analyze this volume.
Preface
It is easy to select and interpret the tales of the book of Genesis that narrate contradictory stories of the same event. Some of those notorious contradictions were probably taken from two different and important sources: the Egyptian and the Mesopotamian. The Canaanites were in Egypt a long while , and when they came back to their land, they brought with them the heterogeneous and advanced culture they had attained in Egypt, which played a main role in the formation of the Hebrew civilization.
Some other important contradictions in Genesis may be due to the fact that the ancient Israelites were also influenced by the Mesopotamians. In 587 BTE (Before This Era) the Israelites were taken prisoners to Babylon, and years later-when freed-they brought to their land, Palestine, the advanced culture they acquired while in Mesopotamia. [It is supposed that the J scholars ( J ahweh) had to convince the other Genesis writers ( E = E lohim, and P = P riestly) ( 1 ) to include the tale of Noah’s flood in the book of Genesis. [The Noah’s flood is a J story that parody the Babylonian flood myth known as Gilgamesh ) ] ( 2 ).
Some stories in Genesis describe events that historians and archaeologists reject because of lack of evidence; and also, archaeologists tell us that some towns mentioned in the book of Genesis did not exist at the time this book says. [Archaeologists dig for the truth].
The authors of the book of Genesis believed in hermaphroditism (self reproduction), ability assigned to most deities of ancient religions [mythologies] . Unfortunately, shortly after “the sons of God” had begun to take “the daughters of men,” the deities of Genesis produced a flood with the malevolent objective of destroying the world. So, due to lack of women, the hermaphrodite male “descendants” of the survived sons of Noah should have used their own “male and female ” reproductive organs to be “fruitful and self-multiply.” In this way they “delivered” people that were born already adults, as had been the cases of Adam, Eve, Cain, and others in Genesis. Mythology is interesting.
In an unspecified time, some Hebrew leaders took the imported myths from Egypt and from Mesopotamia, mixed them with Canaanite myths and created a religion. Clever! But although the book of Genesis was written after the book of Exodus (so it is believed), the Hebrew scholars could not avoid including some manifestations of polytheism in their myth . It is important to emphasize that the imaginary personages mentioned in the book of Genesis did not worship one God exclusively. Also, that the characters God, the Lord God, and the Lord are the equivalent of three different Egyptian deities admirably adopted and later included in the book of Genesis. Through their early history the Hebrews used to appeal to many Gods until well advanced in time, because monotheism had not been imposed yet. (The following bold and italic words are mine):
.-In 1:26 God said, “ Let Us make a man in Our image , according to Our likeness ” (How many Gods were invited to make “a man”?).
.-In 3:22 after Adam and Eve had eaten from the tree of knowledge, the Lord God-another deity-said, “ Behold , the man has become like one of Us” (How many Gods were Us ?).
.-In 11:7 one God invited the other Gods, “ Let Us go down and there confuse their language. ” (How many Gods went down?).
.- In 31:19 Rachel, one of the four simultaneous wives of Jacob, had stolen her father’s gods .
.- In 31:30 Laban asked Jacob, “Why did you steal my gods”?
.-In 35:2 Jacob ordered his people to get rid of the foreign gods.
.-One of the more than 600 Hebrew Commands says, Do not worship other gods.
.-The writers of Genesis assigned to Abraham and to each of his male chosen immediate descendants a private and personalized God: e.g. the God of Abraham, the God of Isaac, etc. There were also Gods of lesser category in the Heaven’s Command Chart: e.g. the Angel of the Lord, and the angels of God. This happened because some people believed that a group of creators ( Let Us make a man ) made everything that is in “the heaven s and on the earth.” These Gods of lesser categories (angels, saints, virgins, etc) are also worshipped ( Henotheism ), because these Gods promoters have assigned to these semi-deities the ability to make “miracles.” [Some people believe they practice monotheism, but to worship one deity among many is henotheism ] . Although the writers of the Bible clearly emphasized polytheism (God, the Lord God, the Lord, etc.), some social institutions have tried to establish monotheism , but at the end it is henotheism what they have imposed.
After the Hebrew epic was almost finished written, the Hebrew scholars gathered some oral Egyptian and Mesopotamian legends and produced the book of Genesis with the logic distortions that the long time span may have added to those already distorted legends. Genesis is not a book of history, but an anthology of fictional stories about how the Gods made the world, and how these Gods’ worshippers began to build a nation in Canaan. Later generations of Hebrew scholars agglutinated their population under one God whom they did not give a name but assigned him many fantastic attributes in order to profit from him.
In my book I superficially analyze and slightly reject some of the contradictions, and realistically false statements the book of Genesis has. I also show my disagreement with those who give money (tights) to guys who say they are given “divine authority” to interpret to us what is clearly understood, because we know how to read analytically. It is hard to worship the God that produced a flood that killed all people, animals, and plants; the God that murdered all the first-born Egyptian human beings and animals (two divine genocide acts); the God whose earthly representatives sponsored and participated actively-in God’s name-in the recent systematic and real killing of more than six million of God’s worshippers in Europe.
I hope that this analysis of the book of Genesis won’t disturb you. It is not my intention to make anybody uncomfortable, but to help to understand better the myths of Genesis and their great historic value.
-I invite the reader to analyze my book in order to discover some irreconcilable contradictions, and some unpardonable immoralities the book of Genesis narrates. They are a lack of respect to human beings.
-Since the writers of the book of Genesis could not reconcile some differences among the Egyptian, the Mesopotamian, and the Canaanite superstitions, the Hebrew scholars, then, left some dubious texts that are in the book I invite you to analyze with me. I also invite the reader to discover and admire the exceptional job the Hebrew scholars did by creating a family and-through it-wrote about the mythic beginning of what later came to be the State of Israel. Clever.
About This Volume
To write some of my observations about the book of Genesis I imagined that I was evaluating an essay about the beginning of the world. This analytical evaluation could have been done by going through the genesis of any religion such as Islamism, Buddhism, Hindui