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Volume 1: AN INTRODUCTION TO THE BIBLE

-- Assumptions false and true

-- Introduction

-- 3-8 What kind of a book is the bible?

-- 8-10 Using representation to communicate difficult ideas

-- 11-23 The problem with reading the bible as religion

-- 23-39 What it means to read the bible as ideology

-- 40-47 The 'World Order' Myth: A practical answer for discussion

-- 48-54 Myth: a lost language for ideological communication

-- 55-72 A conversation with Ancient Man

-- 73-75 The 'World Order' Myth. Is this religion?

-- 75-86 The 'World Order' Myth as ideology

-- 80-83 The 'Enlil' Myth as ideology not religion

-- 87-98 The 'Paradise' Myth as ideology not religion

-- 98-107 The 'Creation of Man' myth: The imago Dei as superstitious backing for conservative ideology

-- 108-129 The 'Adapa' myth: religion as herd instinct used to buttress ieology

-- 129-133 The 'Demuzi and Enkimdu' myth as ideology not religion

-- 133-142 The 'Inanna in the Underworld myth

-- 142-152 The 'Death of Demuzi' myth

-- 152-180 The 'Flood' myth as ideology not religion

-- 180-183 Theology as a false compromise between religion and ideology

-- 183-188 The advantages and disadvantages of an ideological approach

-- 188-193 The advantages and disadvantages of a religious approach

-- 193-196 Summary: The Bible assumed to be ideology