'From The Cradle, Creation To Canaan'

My original intent was only to write the one book "From the Cradle, Creation to Canaan" that only focused on the Torah or "the Teachings," which consisted of the first five books of the Old Testament. The process of reading, researching, and writing, followed by more reading, researching and writing was a challenge. I found out how the Old Testament originally began as several stories of numerous people that was traditionally transferred orally from father to son over period of several centuries. The final written form of the Old Testament is a compilation of several stories, documents, manuscripts that were authored by various people, who lived in different places, at different times and had their own specific religious views to express. To date the oldest of these biblical texts to be discovered were dated to 700BC as well as others such as the Dead Sea Scrolls that were written around 300BC. At this time there are no complete original documents, scrolls or manuscripts of the Old Testament that are older. Over the course of the past 2,600 years numerous authors and copyists while writing and …show more content…
With these other stories, legends and characters in mind it is my goal now to present after more reading and researching the history behind the stories such as the conquest of Canaan, the establishment of the United Monarchy, the separation of the United Monarch into the Kingdom of Israel and the Kingdom of Judah, the Babylonian Exile along with the creation and development of the Hebrew culture following their return of the Judeans to the Kingdom of