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Index
Title Page
Table of Contents
Praise for Holy Fable
Introduction
Notes
I
Patchwork Pentateuch
Mosaic Tiles
The Stories
The Six Day Creation
The Garden of Eden
The Cain Cycle
The Pre-Flood Patriarchs
The Sons of God and Daughters of Men
The Great Flood
Noah's Curse
The Table of Nations
The Tower of Babel
The Patriarchal History
Abraham's Itinerary
The Oaks of Moreh
Between Bethel and Ai
The Sacred Tamarisk
Dishonest Abe
God's Covenant with Abraham
Laughing Boy
Sodom and Gomorrah
The Sacrifice of Isaac
Hagar and Ishmael
Jacob Cheats Esau
Jacob's Ladder
Jacob Wrestles with "God"
The Burials of Deborah and Rachel
Judah and Tamar
Joseph the Hebrew Osiris
Notes
II
Fleeing Phantoms
Basket Case
Moses the Second Jacob
The Plagues
Passover and the Feast of Unleavened Bread
The Sea of Reeds
The Torah
The Book of the Covenant
Ten Plus Ten Commandments
The Golden Calf
Deuteronomy
What Is Deuteronomy about?
Give or Take a Teuch
The Holiness Code
Moses Stories Formally Classified
Ceremonial and Legal Precedents
Can You Guess my Name?
Birth of Bureaucracy
Origin of the Levites
Cautionary Tales
Fire Extinguisher
Jockeying for Position
Was that Kindling Really Worth it?
Levitical Labor Dispute
Geological and Etymological Stories
Bittersweet Miracle
Ol' Massah
More Murmuring
Feed me till I Want no More
Etymological and Ethnological Stories in the Pentateuch
Notes
III
The Book of Joshua
The Son of Nun
Theology as History
Harlot with the Heart of Gold
On Jordan's Stormy Banks
General Revelation
Joshua Fit de Battle of Jericho
One Expensive Suit!
Hands-on Astronomy
Alternate Altar
A New Covenant
The Book of Judges
Go Directly to Jael
Gideon (Jerubbaal)
Jephthah, A Devil's Bargain with God
Samson
First Cycle
Miraculous Nativity
The Lion and the Riddle
Foxes in the Field
The Jawbone of an Ass
The Miraculous Spring
Second Cycle
The Ambush at the Gate
Why, Why, Why, Delilah?
Chaos without a King
The Book of Samuel
The Nativity of Samuel
Hannah's Song
The Corruption of Eli's Sons
First Revelation to Samuel
Philistine Raiders of the Lost Ark
Death inside the Ark!
Saul's Kingship Is Good
Saul's Kingship Is Bad
All Kingship Is Bad
David and Goliath
David versus Saul
The Witch of Endor
The Death of Saul
David Becomes King
Ark of Electricity
The "House" of David
Enthroned on an Ejector Seat
Scions of Zion
Wicker Men
War of the Demigods
The Book of Kings
Solomon
Solomon's Choice
Splitting the Difference
The Temple
Eden Indoors
Chock Full o' Gods
The Kingdom Divided
Elijah & Elisha
Acts of Elijah
Elijah Decrees Three Years of Famine
The Ever-Renewing Meal and Oil
Elijah Raises the Widow's Son
Elijah Calls Down Fire from Heaven
The Elijah Whisperer
Elijah Calls Elisha
Naboth's Vineyard
Micaiah's Mockery
Elijah Preempts the Oracle of Baal-Zebub
Elijah Calls Down Fire from Heaven
Elijah's Ascension
Acts of Elisha
Elisha Purifies the Water
Elisha and the Bears
Elisha's Role in the Moabite War
Elisha Multiplies the Oil
Elisha and the Shunammite
Elisha Raises the Shunammite's Son
Elisha Purifies Poisoned Food
Elisha Multiplies the Loaves
Elisha Heals Naaman the Syrian
Gehazi's Greed
Elisha Makes the Axe-Head Float
Elisha Reveals the Army of God
Elisha, Gehazi, and the Shunammite
Elisha Ordains Hazael King of Syria
Elisha Ordains Jehu King of Israel
Elisha's Deathbed Prediction
Elisha's Postmortem Miracle
The Savage Sword of Jehu
The Messiah Hezekiah and Josiah's Reformation
The Mouse that Roared at Sennacherib
Isaiah Turns Back the Clock
Notes
IV
A Lot of Begats
The Fall of Saul
Battle of the Blind
Rallying the Ranks
The Editorial Axe
Goliath and Satan
The Testament of David
Laundering the Emperor's New Clothes
Blueprints for the Temple
Later Than You Think
Launching the Temple
Both Boams
Alias Abijah
Asa Diamonds
Forgetting the Lessons of History
Jumpin' Jehoshaphat
Sennacherib's Bullying
The Man(asseh) of Sin
Josiah the Second Hezekiah
Ezra and Nehemiah
Putting it all Together
Notes
V
1 Maccabees
2 Maccabees
Afterlife
Scripture
Monotheism
Martyrology
Messiahship
Two New Testament Borrowings
Notes
VI
Ruth
Esther
Daniel
Susanna
Bel and the Dragon
The Apocalypse of Daniel
Jonah
Judith
Tobit
Notes
VII
The Psalms
Writing Staff
Only a Northern Song
That Old Time Religion
God versus Godzilla
Unification Theology
Psalm 82
Yahweh Resurrected
Psalm 88
Psalms of Praise
Royal Psalms
Psalm 2
Psalm 110
Psalm 23
Psalm 63
Psalms 18, 45
Laments of the King
Psalm 51
Psalm 22
Psalm 139
Psalm 137
Psalm 91
Psalms 18, 116, 138
Psalm 84
Psalm 122
Psalm 100
Psalms of the Levites
Psalms 134, 135
Psalm 24
Psalm 73
Psalm 1
Psalm 90
Psalm 8
Psalm 19
Psalm 104
The Song of Solomon
Lamentations of Jeremiah
Psalms of Solomon
The Prayer of Manasseh
The Song of Azariah and the Three Young Men
Notes
VIII
The Book of Proverbs
Wisdom of Solomon
Sirach
The Book of Job
Ecclesiastes
Testament of Solomon
Notes
IX
The Written Jehovah
Author Appendages
Get it in Writing
Deuteronomic Anachronism
The Veil Slips
The Latter Prophets
Who Ya Gonna Call?
Moses
Samuel
Isaiah
Jeremiah
Ezekiel
Common Themes
Sacred Charades
Wonderful Marriage Counselor
The Potter's House
Drink Ye All of It
Battle of the Prophets
Buyer's Market
Crocodile Rocks
Book in the Brook
Sacred Cow Pies
Baring Witness
Narratees versus Readers
The Book of Isaiah
Isaiah 1
The Temple Epiphany
Birth Announcement
Isaiah 8
Isaiah 9
Isaiah 11
The Bigger They Are ...
The Apocalypse of Isaiah
Isaiah 24
Isaiah 25
Isaiah 26
The Second Isaiah
Songs of the Servant
Isaiah 42
Isaiah 49
Isaiah 50
Isaiah 52-53
Some More about the Servant
Isaiah 41
Isaiah 42 (again)
The Contrived Christian Isaiah
The Book of Jeremiah
Jeremiah 11-12
Jeremiah 15
Jeremiah 17
Jeremiah 18
Jeremiah 20
The Vengeance of Nitocris
O Christmas Tree?
The Book of Ezekiel
Pretty Tired of Tyre
Dem Dry Bones
The Stoneheart Group
Invidious Individualism
Ezekiel the Architect
Ezekiel's Close Encounter
The Book of the Twelve
Amos
Amos 7
Amos 2-3
Amos 8
Amos 2, 4-5
Notes
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