The unauthorized version : truth and fiction in the Bible
Robin Lane Fox  05/12/03
None of the references have been crossed by myself.

Pg 7 A historians view of the bible.  Evidence and historical truth not faith.  It addresses, authors, historical growth and historical truth.  The author writes as an atheist.  
Author sides more with Christian then Hebrew responses and commentaries because the bible s a Christian creation.

Pg 13  It is higely unlikely Jesus spoke Greek.

Pg 16 Talks about translation from Hebrew and what the Hebrew may have said that is not said in the translation.  Philosophy is a Greek invention.

Pg 17 Differences in Genesis 1 & 2  about creation.  Isaac La Peyrere (1594 – 1676) argued that the differences were 2 creations.  The first for the gentiles and the 2nd for Adam _ The Jews.  Despite the authors’ intentions, this became a support for racial slavery and anti – Semitism that lasted into the 19th century.


Pg 20 Continues with the creation differences:  Some believe the 1st Adam was a hermaphrodite.  When Eve was created she was taken from Adam making male and female.  Never heard that before!
The first story we now know was the 2nd one written by a Jewish priestly writer who took the Sabbatical view of creation; other parts of his work are components of Genesis and it’s succeeding books, Exodus, Leviticus and Numbers.  The date and possible revision of his work are in dispute, but the likeliest view is that it was written in the latter 6th century B.C.E.
The 2nd story was written much earlier, probably during the 8th century B.C.E. .  Its Jewish author too is an unidentifiable source for other parts of Genesis and it’s succeeding books.

Pg 22 Goes on to talks about the myths and stories the Greeks learned thru Phoenicians.

Pg 23  Before 400 B.C.E. a 3rd written combined the two into one.  He did the same with the story of the flood.



Author says a lot I want to note but starts on one subject of the same topic and ends with another flowing into yet another.  It’s difficult to take notes without taking them out of context.  May put some notes down when done with the book . . .