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Genesis start with the world-famous creation story, and continues with the little-known second creation story

Adam, Eve, and their descendents fudge things up and the two gods decide to flood the world

The prototypical Hebrew is an old respectful wanderer without superpowers or geopolitical clout

The second patriarch is an extra in his own gut-wrenching almost-sacrifice. He's doing better when he's feuding with Philistines

The Bible's arcehtypical schemer is always busy outsmarting someone or marrying them

The grand epic of Genesis is a story of family, forgiveness, acceptance of foreign deities and opening a new leaf

How Jeremiah and his scribe Baruch authored some of the most famous stories of Genesis

The most famous biblical book is nothing like what you think it is. It is a collection of short stories later attached to one narrative

This meeting has several versions and none of them is flattering to the Hebrew leadership

Aharon was written as a heroic priest, but later editors took away his exploits and even changed his name to Aharon

The plagues of Egypt are made up of three layers: a revenge fantasy story, an anti-Zoroastrian story, and a story about bereavement

Passover began as the Hebrew version of a thousands-years-old agricultural festival, to which a national layer was added later