who wrote the bible by richard elliott friedman

It was not until after the Reformation, however, that the level of attack against the fidelity of the Old Testament was raised. While the church has, from its earliest days, recognized that the Old Testament is a part of her heritage, there has by no means been a consensus view with regard to its interpretation. For Servetus, Iehouah was the only true God. He also knew that according to Paulus de Heredia, a Christian Cabbalist, the meaning of God's name was “He causes to be” (yehauueh), but he never confused the pronunciation of God's name with its Kabbalistic meaning (yehaweh). For example he explained that God's name was Iehouah because in Hebrew this name was close to the name of Iesuah (Jesus), or Iehosuah, which means “Iehouah is salvation”. This book was translated into English only in 1932, but still worse, the main arguments from part V were completely distorted. He was then arrested in Geneva and burnt at the stake as a heretic by order of the city's Protestant governing council. Accordingly, Catholics and Protestants alike condemned him.

In July 1531, he published his De Trinitatis Erroribus (On the Errors of the Trinity) in which he explained clearly that the Trinity was a 3-headed monster. Michael Servetus participated in the Protestant Reformation and translated the Hebrew Bible into Latin.

By meshing the Abraham in Genesis with data from secular history we discover Abraham is not the nomadic shepherd we see depicted in art through the years, but a sophisticated and highly educated man of noble birth. Can Revelation and Evolution co-exist? We answer these questions in this book. Was Abraham’s God the same God we worship today? 8. Can history prove some of the stories of Genesis? 7. Did Abraham bring ancient stories of Mesopotamia to Canaan? 6. Was polytheism evil or a stepping stone to monotheism? 4. Did Abraham worship “other gods” as did his father Terah? 3. The combination of Genesis and secular history opened up a whole new set of questions about Abraham that I have addressed in this work: 1. There is, however, considerable documentation and academic discovery of the Third Dynasty of Ur in 2000 BC when Abraham’s family moved from the city-state of Ur to Haran in northern Mesopotamia. Little had been written about the historical Abraham as there are no extant historical documents to substantiate Abraham’s life. Most books and articles expound on the biblical Abraham found in the Hebrew Scriptures and the Qur’an. The essence of this book is to give the reader a fuller understanding of the world in which the patriarch Abraham lived when he received the word of God two thousand years before the greatest event in the history of mankind – the incarnation.

Who wrote the bible by richard elliott friedman