Why Biblical Anthropology?

Just Genesis ^ | Nov. 5, 2015 | Alice C. Linsley

[Jandy on Genesis]

Biblical anthropology seeks to understand antecedents and explores the beliefs of Abraham's cattle-herding Nilo-Saharan ancestors. Until we better understand their religious practices we will continue to impose incorrect or inadequate interpretations on the Bible.

David Noel Freedman has said: “The Hebrew Bible is the one artifact from antiquity that not only maintained its integrity but continues to have a vital, powerful effect thousands of years later.”

The Bible contains material older than the first civilizations. The king lists of Genesis 4 and 5 are an example. Anthropological analysis of the kinship pattern of these ruler-priest lines has shown them to be authentic. The kinship pattern is unique and does not appear to change throughout the Bible. The evidence of this distinctive marriage and ascendancy could not have been written back into the texts at a later date. It is the thread that weaves through the Bible from beginning to end. Further, understanding this marriage and ascendancy pattern is essential for a biblical understanding of Jesus, the Son of God, as the fulfillment of Messianic expectation. He is a descendant of the earliest named rulers to whom the Creator made a promise concerned the divine Seed (Gen. 3:15). Jesus referred to Himself as the promised "Seed" when He foretold his death in Jerusalem. He said, "Unless a seed fall into the ground and die, it cannot give life." (John 12:24)

Jesus' ancestors were the "mighty men of old" and great kingdom builders who dispersed widely in the archaic world. They were a ruler caste (clans that practiced endogamy) who spread along the mountain chains (high places) of Southern Europe and the Hindu Kush. They likely controlled commerce through the Pamir Junction. These were aggressive kingdom builders who regarded themselves as divinely appointed to disperse and subdue the earth.

[humblegunner]

Hi, Alice.
What stopped you from posting your whole piece right here?

[Yashcheritsiy]

Something about stealing copyrighted material or something.

[humblegunner]

It’s her own stuff and all she ever posts.

Note article history:

http://www.freerepublic.com/tag/by:jandyongenesis/index?tab=articles

[humblegunner]

Unless maybe she stole it first and then stuck it on her blog.

[Yashcheritsiy]

No no - it’s about FREE REPUBLIC stealing copyrighted material.

[Don Corleone]

The longer you live the more truths you find in the Bible.

[Yashcheritsiy]

[humblegunner]

No no - it's about FREE REPUBLIC stealing copyrighted material.

Posting her own stuff somewhere is stealing?

Guess I need some kind of re-education. Or a cunning lawyer
to help me prove Walmart stole my truck because I parked it there.

[Yashcheritsiy]

No - telling her she has to post the full thing, when she obviously doesn’t want to, and doesn’t have to because it’s in the “blogger” section of FR anywise, is stealing.

I won’t let you become a thief, hg.

[humblegunner]

telling her she has to post the full thing

I didn't tell her anything, I asked her why she didn't.
It would be interesting to see her reasoning. I'm betting it's because she wants blog hits.

I won't let you become a thief, hg.

I appreciate that and I'll stop all stealing right away.

[Yashcheritsiy]

I appreciate that and I'll stop all stealing right away.

Glad to hear that I had helped you to make a potentially game-changing alteration in the course of your life. You will thank me for it in a few years.

[humblegunner]

You will thank me for it in a few years.

First I need to turn my life around and get my rap career back on track.

[Yashcheritsiy]

[georgiegirl]

The red herring is the widely-held assumption that Abraham's earliest ancestors lived in Mesopotamia. Such a view ignores the data of Genesis 4-11. It fails to investigate the trace, to follow the trail back to Abrahams Nilo-Saharan ancestors. Their story does not pertain initially to the ancient Near East, but to Africa and to the vast Afro-Asiatic Dominion that existed before the emergence of the great world religions.

Abraham was an African??? He came from Ur, which is in ancient Mesopotamia.

...And Terah took Abram his son, and Lot the son of Haran his son's son, and Sarai his daughter in law, his son Abram's wife; and they went forth with them from Ur of the Chaldees, to go into the land of Canaan; and they came unto Haran, and dwelt there.--Genesis 11:31

[thackney]

How do you feel about someone using Jim Robinson property to promote their blog, even after he and the administrators have said not to do so?

http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/bloggers/2548666/posts?page=38#38
by Admin Moderator

Got a news flash for you, sport. FR does not exist for the purpose of driving traffic (read: revenue generation) to your, or anybody elses, blog. What we can do is pull threads from this blog if that will help.

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http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-bloggers/2636843/posts?page=552#552
by Jim Robinson

I have no complaint if a good conservative blogger posts his own material to FR, not as an excerpt to drive hits and discussion back to his blog, but rather to impart useful information to OUR readers and to promote and join in on the discussion and conservative activism HERE on FR.

If a blogger can’t or refuses do that, and if he constantly complains or fights with our participants over it, then I’d just as soon he doesn’t post here.

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The Pimp and The Poster (Mod Lecture Series)
http://freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2722423/posts
by Admin Moderator

[Yashcheritsiy]

I’d have to agree with JimRob then - why bother posting on FR at all?

[thackney]

why bother posting on FR at all?

To share thoughts and words with other conservatives. Just post them here, instead of directing FReepers to other web sites.

[Yashcheritsiy]

Yeah...carried too far, that could end up being what got FR successfully sued a few years back.

[Jandy on Genesis]

The research is grounded in over 30 years of intense study. You can pursue any of this as far as you wish and you will find that I have built on what is already known in molecular genetics, linguistics, anthropology, and archaeology. There isn’t anything new here. It seems new because this is probably the first time it has been presented in a systematic way.