Education Orthodox perspective on the Old Testament

[Roosh]

These are two very good articles concerning the Old Testament, Genesis, and the nephilim. It connects a lot of dots for me about why God chose the Jews...

Genesis and "the Fall" - The Whole Counsel Blog

The first eleven chapters of Genesis have long been seen as a literary unit which serves as a sort of prologue to the rest of the book of Genesis, the Torah or Pentateuch, and the whole of the scriptures. Within these chapters, we read of the creation of the world and of humanity, the expulsion...

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Here There Be Giants - The Whole Counsel Blog

In recent times, the rediscovery of the original ancient context of Genesis 6:1-4 has led to a fascination with the subject of the ‘Nephilim’, who are here said to be produced through sexual immorality involving angelic beings and human women. In some quarters, this has been developed into...

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[DanielH]

I take it you're reading Fr. Stephen De Young's new book The Religion of the Apostles? If you're not planning on doing a writeup of it I will when I'm done. It's the best primer to Orthodoxy and especially the Old Testament I've ever read. It's very interesting that the East saw three distinct falls of man in Genesis whereas the West focuses almost exclusively on the first.

 

[Roosh]

I take it you're reading Fr. Stephen De Young's new book The Religion of the Apostles? If you're not planning on doing a writeup of it I will when I'm done. It's the best primer to Orthodoxy and especially the Old Testament I've ever read. It's very interesting that the East saw three distinct falls of man in Genesis whereas the West focuses almost exclusively on the first.

I haven't gotten it yet but it's definitely on my list.