Research or Religion

BySkip Moen, Ph.D.

By the seventh day God completed His work which He had done, and He rested on the seventh day from all His work which He had done.  Genesis 2:2  NASB Seventh – I’ve included two short articles in this study because I believe it is important to see the difference between serious scholarly approaches to the text…

Textual Criticism

BySkip Moen, Ph.D.

As for Zillah, she bore Tubal-Cain, who forged every tool of copper and iron.  And the sister of Tubal-Cain was Naamah.  Genesis 4:22  Robert Alter Who forged – Rabbi Aryeh Kaplan offers the following translation of the phrase in this text: “a maker of all copper and iron implements,” but he notes that the Targum…