Hi, my name is Ken Helsley, an author and speaker. Welcome to my WordPress blog. Most of my posts are on Biblical topics, primarily the book of Genesis. This blog is based on a series of essays on Genesis that I have written and if you wish to learn more about them, please vivit my website at http://thewitnesschronicles.com.
God Bless,
Ken
January 13, 2009 at 5:48 am |
Hello Ken. My name is Jack M Silverstein, and I found your blog today. I am beginning a project to read the Bible straight through, (twill be a long project…), starting with the Torah and running through to the Christian Bible. After that…we shall see.
I am contacting you because you clearly have a handle on the scriptures. I am inviting others to comment on my project, to correct me, to point me towards other texts, to throw ideas at me that I might not have or questions that I might not have considered. As a Jew, the majority of the people known to me personally who I will contact will also be Jewish, so I’d love to get some other perspectives whenever possible. I hope to hear your thoughts as I pursue this project.
PEACE
sincerely, Jack M Silverstein
DO YOU READ JACK?
readjack.com
January 14, 2009 at 4:53 am |
Hello Jack,
I’ll be more than happy to asssist you nany way I can. I”ll be looking at readjack.co from time to time to see what your writing. My first suggesstion, along with the Torah and Genesis, read the Book of Jubilees, written around 150 B.C by an unknown Levitical Rabi from an unknown sect, but it is iinteresting. One thing that keep this and other extra-Torah/Biblical books from being Canonized however is that there are many errors with time and pace of cities and people and events. Most are veery minor and require a real eye for detail to catch, but this is how we know the age oof some of these non-canonized works. The Book of Enoch is another very mich like the Book of Jubilees, from about the same time period, but both tell slighlty different versions of the Genesis story. Good luck with you project. I’ll looking from time to time and if you ever have any questions, feel free to ask.
Ken