by Andy Roland | Sep 7, 2020 | Bible
GREGORY THE GREAT c.540 – 605 The end of the world Asinarian gate, Rome Gregory was born to a rich and ancient senatorial Roman family about 540, during the war in which the Empire of the East reconquered Italy from the Goths. The war lasted for...
by Andy Roland | Aug 9, 2020 | Bible, Religion
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...
by Andy Roland | Jul 30, 2020 | Bible, Creation to Commandments
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...
by Andy Roland | Jul 30, 2020 | Bible, Newsletter
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...
by Andy Roland | Jul 19, 2020 | Bible, Creation to Commandments
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....
by Andy Roland | Jul 11, 2020 | Bible
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...
