The book is nearing completion, Only the introduction and the final chapter must be completed. I am sending the book out to reviewers now to enable them to comment near the time of the book’s release. For those of you anxiously awaiting the book, which I believe is the best thing I’ve written to date, I’m sharing with you the outline of the first 8 chapters.
Again, one more chapter to write and that will be on the subject of whether or not there was a Pre-Adamic race, evidence for a “high civilization” before Genesis 1, and a possible scenario for what happened before the world began, before the time of Adam and Eve.
Stay tuned for more updates. I hope to devise a way to do pre-orders with Amazon and for my website. I’ll let you know. For those anxious to get one of the first copies, I will also structure a method to get it to you for delivery on the release date.
New release date: May 15.
REBOOTING THE BIBLE, PART 2
TABLE OF CONTENTS
- CHAPTER ONE: BIBLICAL CHRONOLOGY CORRUPTED:
EVOLUTION OF THE SPECIES? NO PROBLEM
ALL BIBLES ARE NOT THE SAME – ESPECIALLY WHEN IT COMES TO CHRONOLOGY
SOME NECESSARY BACKGROUND FROM THE BIBLE’S MOST ANCIENT HISTORY
THE DISCREPANCIES BETWEEN THE MASORETIC TEXT AND THE SEPTUAGINT
THE ELEPHANT IN THE ROOM
CONCLUSION
- CHAPTER TWO: PROVING WHICH BIBLICAL CHRONOLOGY IS RIGHT
IS “TELLING TIME” HISTORICALLY PART OF THE JUDEO-CHRISTIAN TRADITION?
THE WITNESS OF THE ANCIENTS
THE BOOK OF JUBILEES AND THE SAMARITAN PENTATEUCH: BIRDS OF A FEATHER
DID THE RABBIS CORRUPT THE TEXT OF THE TANAKH?
DEFLATIONARY RABBIS
THE GENERATION GAPS – DOES A CORRECTED CHRONOLOGY CONTAIN “GAPS”?
WHY GAPS CAN’T BE ALLOWED IN THE CHRONOGENEALOGIES
THE GRAMMATICAL ARGUMENT FOR “NO GAPS”
CONCLUSION
- CHAPTER THREE: PELEG AND THE DIVISION OF THE NATIONS
THE DISAPPEARING ACT OF ANCIENT CIVILIZATIONS
BIBLICAL CHRONOLOGY EXPLAINS A LOT MORE THAN JUST TIMING
WHAT HAPPENED WHEN THE WORLD WAS DIVIDED?
WHEN DID HUMANITY SEEK TO ERECT THE TOWER OF BABEL?
WHAT DOES THE NAME PELEG (PHALEG, PHALEK) MEAN?
THE DIVISION OF THE NATIONS: THREE VIEWS
OPTION #1: THE TOWER OF BABEL CONFUSION CREATED GLOBAL DIVISION
OPTION #2: “CATCH MY CONTINENTAL DRIFT:” DID IT CAUSE THE DIVISION?
OPTION #3: RISING WATERS FLOOD COASTLINES CAUSING GLOBAL DIVISIONS
IS THERE A FOURTH THEORY THAT BETTER FITS THE FACTS?
THE BIG MELT
THE RECORDS OF THE SUMERIANS
CONCLUSION: THE MARINE TRANSGRESSION
- CHAPTER FOUR: HUNTING THE “MIGHTY HUNTER” – NIMROD
WHY DOES THE STORY OF NIMROD UPSET THE CONVENTIONAL CHRONOLOGY?
MORE THAN THE ANTICHRIST ARCHETYPE?
WHO IS NIMROD? WHAT DOES ARCHEOLOGY SAY?
THE TESTIMONY OF ARCHEOLOGY TELLS THE TIMEFRAME OF BABEL & NIMROD
GILGAMESH – THE MYTHICAL FIGURE POINTING TO NIMROD?
SETTING ARIGHT THE BIBLICAL FACTS ABOUT NIMROD
OUT OF AFRICA
THE DEATH OF NIMROD
WAS SEMIRAMIS REALLY THE WIFE OF NIMROD?
NIMROD AND THE BOOK OF JASHER
CONCLUSION
- CHAPTER FIVE: THE CONFUSION OVER BABEL
WHAT REALLY HAPPENED ON THE PLAIN OF SHINAR?
WHAT DOES THE NAME “BABEL” TELL US ABOUT THE TOWER?
WAS THE TOWER A ZIGGURAT?
THE COSMIC MOUNTAIN
THE HISTORICITY OF THE TOWER OF BABEL
CONCLUSION – YAHWEH DEFEATS MARDUK AND HIS ROYAL AGENT
- CHAPTER SIX: ALL IN THE FAMILY
WHY EVOLUTIONARY THEORY ENCOURAGES RACISM
IS EVIL IN OUR GENOME?
GENESIS – THE REPUDIATION OF MESOPOTAMIAN MYTHOLOGY
TOLEDOTH AND THE STRUCTURE OF GENESIS
DISTINCTIVE FEATURES OF THE GENEALOGY IN GENESIS
REBELLION AND DISPERSION – WHAT THE GENEALOGIES TELL US ABOUT TIMING
THE ANCIENT MIGRATION OF HUMANITY
WHO IS JAPHETH?
HAM AND HIS DESCENDANTS
SHEM AND THE MESSIANIC LINE
TRACING THE HISTORIES OF PEOPLES IDENTIFIED IN GENESIS 10
THE ANCIENT HISTORIES CONFIRMING THE LXX CHRONOLOGY
CONCLUSION
- CHAPTER SEVEN: DROWN AND OUT: THE WHEN AND WHY OF THE GREAT FLOOD
THE ETERNAL TEST OF ORTHODOXY
THE FLOOD OF EVIDENCE
IS BELIEVING IN THE FLOOD A “LEAP OF FAITH?”
NOAH’S FLOOD AND THE EPIC OF GILGAMESH: HARDLY THE SAME STORY
CAN WE ATTAIN A DATE OF THE DELUGE?
WHY WAS THE FLOOD NECESSARY?
THE SONS OF GOD
A SECOND INCURSION?
THERE WAS MORE TO FIX THAN ANGEL-HUMAN MISCEGENATION
THE CONVENTIONAL VIEW: THE CROSS POINTS TO GENESIS 3 AND “THE FALL”
THE APKALLU AND THE LEGENDS OF MESOPOTAMIA
THE CONQUEST OF BEELZEBUB’S KINGDOM BEGINS
SO IS THE PRINCIPLE OF SIN AND DEATH NOT THE PROBLEM?
CONCLUSION – PLEDGING LOYALTY TO THE KINGDOM OF GOD
- CHAPTER EIGHT: THE RISE AND FALL OF HUMANITY: ADAM AND EVE, CAIN, EDEN,
SYMBOL OR HISTORY – HOW DO WE UNDERSTAND THE STORIES OF GENESIS 1-4?
A BRIEF HISTORY OF THE ANTEDILUVIAN WORLD
WHERE WAS EDEN?
EUPHRATES’ AND TIGRIS’ HEADWATERS: THE LOGICAL LOCATION FOR EDEN
THE SCENES FROM THE SKY
WAS ADAM A REAL PERSON OR WHAT?
WHAT DID SECOND TEMPLE JEWS BELIEVE ABOUT ADAM?
WHY IT MATTERS THAT ADAM WAS MUCH MORE THAN A SYMBOL
BUT WAS IT REALLY CAIN WHO BROUGHT DEATH INTO THE WORLD?
CONCLUSION: BALANCING THE SIN OF HUMANITY WITH THE SIN OF THE WATCHERS
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