The tension: The Table of Nations and its parallels give three different fathers for a man named Sheba: Raamah (Gen 10:7; 1 Chr 1:9), Jokshan son of Abraham and Keturah (Ge…
The tension: Genesis 10:7 and 1 Chronicles 1:9 list Dedan as the son of Raamah in the Cushite/Hamite line, while Genesis 25:3 and 1 Chronicles 1:32 list Dedan as the son of…
The tension: A wide set of passages (Gen 14:19, 22; Exod 9:29; 19:5; Deut 10:14; Ps 24:1; 50:12; 89:11; 1 Cor 10:26) affirm that God owns the earth absolutely.
The tension: Genesis 22:2 calls Isaac Abraham's "only son" — at the moment when Ishmael is already thirteen years old and demonstrably alive, and when Genesis 25 is about t…
The tension: Genesis 25:1 says "then again Abraham took a wife, and her name was Keturah." 1 Chronicles 1:32 calls her "Abraham's concubine." In biblical Hebrew those are t…
The tension: Three statements inside Genesis 36 and 1 Chronicles can't all be true of the same person: Anah is Zibeon's daughter (Gen 36:2, 14), Anah is Seir's son and Zibe…
The tension: Exodus 30 and Numbers 1, 3, and 26 have YHWH explicitly commanding Moses to take multiple censuses of Israel — the Sinai census, the Levite census, the firstbo…
The tension: Dozens of texts describe YHWH as merciful, gracious, slow to anger, abundant in loyalty — Exodus 34:6, Deut 4:31, the Psalms, the prophets, the New Testament l…
The tension: The Torah, prophets, and Wisdom literature relentlessly command fear of YHWH — Deuteronomy 6:13, Ecclesiastes 12:13, Proverbs 9:10, Matthew 10:28, and Hebrews…
The tension: Deuteronomy 7:9, 11:1, 12:1, and Psalm 119:151-160 declare the commandments and statutes binding 'forever,' 'always,' and 'to a thousand generations.' Jesus in…
The tension: The Hebrew Bible repeatedly affirms YHWH as sovereign over all the kingdoms and the whole earth, but several New Testament passages — most notably the Temptati…
The tension: Joshua 21:23-24 lists Aijalon as a Levitical city given out of the tribe of Dan, while 1 Chronicles 6:66, 69 lists Aijalon as a Levitical city given out of the…
The tension: 1 Samuel 1:1 introduces Samuel's father Elkanah as 'an Ephrathite' from the hill country of Ephraim — making Samuel an Ephraimite by tribal affiliation.
