The Crisis in Egypt - The Background

Over recent weeks, the world’s eyes have been focused firmly on Egypt as a people’s revolution threatens to reverberate across the entire Middle East region. However, the subject of this post is another crisis that engulfed the region in about 1700-1600BC.

Mankind's Authority over Nature

I wanted to make a comment on Stephen's latest post but felt that a new post would be appropriate as I'm going off on a slight tangent, and it also gives me the chance to introduce another domain into the mix.

Stephen's interpretation of the creation story in Genesis suggests that man's authority over creation is limited by God. However, I would argue that, although we cannot (yet) control the sun and the moon, there has been a significant shift in power, if not authority, over time.

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Lessons in Community: The Creation Story

This is the first in what I plan to be a series of brief summaries of the thoughts I have and the things God teaches me about his ideas for sustainable communities as I read his word (yes, a thoroughly modern project!).

I've started in Genesis, since that is where God started and here is the first instalment presented just as ideas for discussion:

1. History matters
2. Man's authority is limited from the start
3. Geography matters

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PM: A tentative exercise in application

Here's some thoughts I've had about applying postmodern insights to our interaction with the Bible. These comments relate particularly to the antifoundational and demystifying attributes of PM as I've described them.

The Wealth of a Nation

Having covered the early chapters of Genesis and Job, virtually the entirety of what remains of the Old Testament is concerned with the history of God’s chosen people, the Israelites. Therefore, this is an appropriate juncture to set out a very brief and overarching economic history of this nation, which will hopefully provide a helpful context for some of the more in-depth analysis to come in my future posts.