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Prologue: Political Parables

-- Prologue: Paraboles Politiques

 

Chapter 1

-- 1-6 What kind of a book is the bible?

-- 6-8 Using representation to communicate difficult ideas

-- 9-21 The problem with reading the bible as religion

-- 21-37 What it means to read the bible as ideology

-- 38-45 The 'World Order' Myth: A practical answer for discussion

-- 46-52 Myth: a lost language for ideological communication

-- 53-70 A conversation with Ancient Man

-- 71-72 The 'World Order' Myth. Is this religion?

-- 73-84 The 'World Order' Myth as ideology

-- 78-81 The 'Enlil' Myth as ideology not religion

-- 85-96 The 'Paradise' Myth as ideology not religion

-- 96-105 The 'Creation of Man' myth: The imago Dei as superstitious backing for conservative ideology

-- 106-127 The 'Adapa' myth: religion as herd instinct used to buttress ieology

-- 127-131 The 'Demuzi and Enkimdu' myth as ideology not religion

-- 131-140 The 'Inanna in the Underworld myth

-- 140-150 The 'Death of Demuzi' myth

-- 150-178 The 'Flood' myth as ideology not religion

-- 178-181 Theology as a false compromise between religion and ideology

-- 181-186 The advantages and disadvantages of an ideological approach

-- 186-191 The advantages and disadvantages of a religious approach

-- 191-194 Summary: The Bible assumed to be ideology

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This is an on going process, more chapters to be added soon.