Seeing God in the Mosaic Law
Bible verses are NKJV, cut and pasted from biblegateway.com. A brief history of the Old Testament eras Genesis 1-11 spans prehistory from about the Age of Copper to the Bronze Age when most writing was in cuneiform script on clay tablets. As we learned in school, Sumer was the “cradle of civilization,” meaning cities, inventions, governments, and law codes. Each Mesopotamian city had a king. In the fairly flat plains of the Tigris and Euphrates Rivers, kings built ziggurats to reach the heavens. The family line from Adam to Abraham is recorded. The book of Genesis tells the story of Abraham, Isaac, and Jacob, the three patriarchs of the Jewish race. In that book, there is no Jewish state. The growing clan moves to Egypt to escape famine. At first, the clan gets good Delta land and begin to thrive and multiply. Eventually, they are conscripted to build palaces and temples. Exodus through Deuteronomy is the story of Moses, the Exodus from Egypt, the giving of the Law, and the...