Genesis Rejuvenated

You can read hundreds of English Language Bible translations along with thousands of books offering explanations of what those translations might mean. Genesis Rejuvenated does something those books do not; it provides translation tools that people like you and me can use to read the Bible for ourselves. Reading the Word, word for word can be an enlightening experience. You expect the Bible to say something like, "In the beginning, God created the Heaven and the Earth," and tell a story about a super-powered Being (who looks like a male human) creating everything from nothing with nothing but the power of His words. But a more faithful translation starts like this, "In principles, the powers-that-be conceive the heavens and the earth," and goes on to tell the story of all of nature's powers and elements agreeing to organize the world according to plans that promote the common good with each doing the thing it does best to execute the common plan.

Hello, my name is Bill Jemas, I was the President and Publisher of Marvel from 2000 to 2004. We had lots of luck rewriting old stories that made you look at what our classic heroes were doing lately. Peter Parker/Spider-Man was changing jobs at the newspaper - from photographer to webmaster. Logan/Wolverine had been an abused child. The first Captain America was really black, and the Rawhide Kid was gay. People noticed us. Bloggers, journalists, t-shirt makers, game developers, movie producers, Barnes & Noble, Game-Stop, Wal-Mart, Target, you name it, all started doing what they do about Marvel, and our once-bankrupt business started to make money. In 2005, I took some of that money, left that job and started up a new business with some friends. We thought we could do our thing about the Bible. We would use Eve and Adam to make a lot of money and have a lot of fun without doing a lot of work. They had made the ultimate sacrifice for all of us. We would cash in on movies, games and merchandise. So, the writers started typing scripts, the artists started drawing pages and I started doing research. It would be good I thought, to surface the stuff of scholarly debate for the pop culture market. Did God intend, from the beginning, for Eve and Adam to eat the fruit of the tree of knowledge? In the Bible, is knowledge a synonym for sex ? Was the serpent a metaphor for Eve s inner voice, urging her to grow up and have children? I thought all I had to do was skim Bible literature for a couple of weeks and surface a bunch of controversial quotes for the PR campaign. I was way wrong. The literature made me look at the original text. And I have not been able to take my eyes off the Bible ever since. Reading the Words made me dig deeper and deeper into their meanings until . . . now, years later, the comic book pages are still on the drawing board and my team and I are dedicated to an entirely new project that takes the Creation story about as seriously as possible. Our project is called the Freeware Bible because its key data is in the public domain and free for you to use as you see fit. As you will see, I used it to write both a verbatim and poetic version of the creation story. You will be able to do that to, and publish it on your own if you like. The Freeware Bible project launches with the publication of this book, Genesis Rejuvenated. I know for sure that the ideas in here really are good ones because they all come from a verbatim translation of the oldest surviving manuscript of the Aramaic/Hebrew Bible. I have tried my best to do a good job at expressing those ideas in this book.