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Eden is the garden of happiness that humankind lost when Adam and Eve the first human couple, disobeyed the one true god, i.e., God, and ate the fruit of the forbidden tree. To this garden all humanity shall return if we accept God's love and follow God's law. It represents paradise in Abrahamic...

Escaping from Eden will take you on a journey around the world and into the mythologies of ancient Sumeria, Mesoamerica, India, Africa, and Greece, to reveal a profound secret, hidden in plain sight in the text of the Bible.

Does your knowledge of the Old Testament feel like a grab bag of people, books, events, and ideas? How many times have you resolved to really understand the OT? To finally make sense of it? Perhaps you are suffering from what Sandra Richter calls the "dysfunctional closet syndrome". If so, she has a solution. Like a home-organizing expert, she comes in and helps you straighten up your cluttered closet. Whether you are a frustrated do-it-yourselfer or a beginning student enrolled in a course, The Epic of Eden will organize your understanding of the Old Testament.

Echoes of Eden is a comprehensive year-long study of the first five books of the Bible (the Torah or Genesis, Exodus, Leviticus, Numbers, and Deuteronomy). Dr. Chad Foster will make use of his background to explore these fundamental books of the Bible from a uniquely Hebraic centered perspective. Be prepared to understand these books and some of their familiar events in a brand new light. A major goal of the study will be to show how the stories in the Torah are not only one-time historical occurrences undergone by individuals a very long time ago. Rather, these historical stories are also ...