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TOBIT an historical romance Introduction - Where’s Tobit? The Book of Tobit used to be one of the best loved books of the Bible. It has pathos, threat, money, love and a happy ending. Ideal holiday reading! It was probably written in Greek,...
Problems of Prehistory – Part 2
Making Sense of Genesis 4-11 The First Murder, the First Civilisation, the Great Flood The First Murder Chapter 4.1-16 In the musical ‘Oklahoma!’ there is a song, ‘The Farmer and the Cowman should be friends’. The song makes clear that they are anything...
My Writing Life – July 2020
aoroland@gmail.com facebook/revandybooks 07508 961 055 A BIG MONTH FOR WRITING BLOGS This month has given birth to not one, not two, not three but four blogs, (including this one)! All part of a project to produce a new book, ‘Making Sense of the Bible in Forty...
GENESIS – PUZZLES OF PREHISTORY PART 1
Genesis 1-3 The Universe and Human Life WHAT’S IT WORTH? In 1839, when he was 30, Charles Darwin wrote: “I had gradually come … to see that the Old Testament from its manifestly false history of the world, with the Tower of Babel, the rainbow as a sign, etc., etc....
It’s all Greek to me – or Hebrew or Aramaic!
THE LANGUAGES OF THE BIBLE The Bible was written 1,500 years before English even existed as a language. The two major languages in which the Bible is written were Hebrew and Greek, plus occasionally Aramaic.So, unless we want to study for years, we have to make do...
REV ANDY’S NEWS JUNE 2020
CHANGING COURSE Don’t miss 7pm Wednesday 1st July “Why the Bible? Which books made it in and which didn’t” https://us02web.zoom.us/j/86219446003?pwd=eXFQbU8zdXUwa2VRMnVrYUhoVUx5Zz09 Password: 280694 GOODBYE ONE BOOK, HELLO ANOTHER By the start of the month,...
LOST GOSPELS?
THE DA VINCI CODE In 2003 a mystery thriller, “The Da Vinci Code” appeared and swept the world. Over 80 million copies were sold worldwide. Three years later it was made into a film, which grossed $734 million. As a result many of its claims about...
THE BIBLE IS NOT A BOOK
WHEN IS A BOOK NOT A BOOK? The smallest Bible in the world One possible answer is, when you need an electron microscope to read it, like the Nano Bible in which all 1.2 million letters have been etched on to a disc the size of the tip of a pen. (I saw it in the...
THE BIBLE IS NOT THE WORD OF GOD …. it is more interesting than that
Introduction In the 1990’s a famous Argentinian Pentecostal pastor, Juan Carlos Ortiz, caused offence at an Evangelical conference. He held a Bible high in the air and proclaimed, “The Bible is not the word of God! Jesus is!” I hope to show that Juan Carlos is both...
REV ANDY’S NEWS – APRIL 2020
With all the churches shut, how did I celebrate Holy Week in lockdown? Actually, rather well. + publishing an e-book.