PostBible: Ancient Gods and Ways Mark Groleau

PostBible is a fresh new kind of Bible study that will focus on its stories.
Mark Groleau is writing a unique version of the Bible's stories every week starting in Genesis.
In this intro episode, Mark explains why PostBible - and what it is exactly.
The goal is to learn the Bible's content - without needing to think that any of if actually happened... or needing to agree with any of the Bible's opinions.
PostBible will be guided by 5 principles:
#1: PostBible will tell all the Bible stories in a way that preserves the awareness that we are far separated from these ancient times, ancient characters, ancient gods, and ancient ideas.
#2: PostBible will heighten the drama, comedy, and tragedy of the Bible stories as they were meant to be told in an oral culture.
#3: PostBible will convey the ingenuity of the original Hebrew or Greek language where possible.
#4: PostBible will make Biblical scholarship accessible in and through the Bible stories.
#5: PostBible will acknowledge that every choice is an opinion and every opinion is a choice. From Mark's version, to the factors that led to version decisions, to the scholarship that led to that decision, to what the Bible's storyteller chose to include: every choice is based on an opinion, and every opinion was based on a choice that led to other choices. There is no pure objectivity when humans write, read, and tell stories.
Get the Bible story here for free every week - or become a Full-On PostBible Geek for a buck a week to support the work and get extra bonus benefits like the scholars notes!
You can do all that here at www.postbible.com!

PostBible is the Bible stories told in a fun and entertianing way - with a healthy degree of sepearation.
In Genesis' first version of its two Creation stories, the god Elohim is the main character, and begins by making a new world out of the darkness and the waves. 
This is a retelling of Genesis 1:1-2:4, followed by the geeky stuff aka scholarly observations from the Hebrew text.
You can download your own copy of this story for free - with the scholar's notes as a launch-week bonus! - at www.postbible.com!

In Genesis' second version of its two very different Creation stories, the god, now named Yhwh-Elohim, is still the main character, but begins by making a humanoid creature called "the-adam" out of the ground ("adam-a").
Then Yhwh-Elohim rather comically attempts to make a partner that will make the adam happy by making all the animals, but fails again and again... until resorting to drastic measures: splitting the humanoid into a man and a woman.
This is a retelling of Genesis 2:1-2:25, followed by the geeky stuff aka scholarly observations from the Hebrew text, history, and culture.
You can download your own copy of this story for free at www.postbible.com!

In this episode of the human-origins story, the woman (not called Eve yet!) gets approached by a snake - the most "nakedly ambitious" of all the land animals. (Really?!)
The snake tells her what she can get outta the Tree of All-Knowing, and it sounds pretty good. Spoiler alert: this story may be an explanation of the way things are. This is a favourite tool of the ancient world: using story to make a point about the present reality.
This is a retelling of Genesis 3:1-13, followed by the geeky stuff aka scholarly observations from the Hebrew text, culture, and history; things like: why a snake, contrasts with the Epic of Gilgamesh, what the Tree of Knowledge of Good and Evil might mean, and good ol' fashioned puns with the word "snake" and "naked."
You can download your own copy of this story for free at https://www.postbible.com!

In this episode of the human-origins story, Yahweh-Elohim spells out the new reality that is the consequence of the man and woman eating the fruit of the Tree of All-Knowing. As with the previous episodes, it's heavy on the etiology: why snakes slither, and why life is so short and brutal with such "intense labour." Then we talk about what that "Tree of Life" might be all about. Basically, this is about the way things are for humans... and there's no going back. (Yet?)
This is a retelling of Genesis 3:14-24, followed by the patron-members-only geeky stuff aka scholars' notes and observations from the Hebrew text, culture, and history.
You can download your own copy of this story with scholars' notes for free at https://www.postbible.com!

In this episode of the Genesis bible story, the human race starts to expand as Adam and Eve have kids: Cain and Abel. But trouble starts brewing between the farmer and the shepherd - the oldest and the youngest - when they decide to make offerings to their god. Cain takes his autonomy to the limit and we have our first murder. Then Yahweh spells out the consequences, but in a surprising twist, offers protection. One thing leads to another... and Erets' first city is founded.
This is a retelling of Genesis 4:1-17, followed by the geeky stuff aka scholars' notes and observations from the Hebrew text, culture, and history.
CONTENT RATING: PG-13 for references to sex and some violent content
Make sure to download the story and scholars' notes at www.postbible.com!