The Dust and the Glory

I revisited your book. I hope you have success with your book.

Hi Earl:

I read the first couple of chapters and found your book to be informative and very enjoyable. I liked the straightforward manner you used in explaining the original Hebrew meanings of words and the way you presented stories from your personal life.

Highly rated and shelved!

God bless you on your path.

Julie Van Meter
Pursuing the Peaceful Path; Devotions of Faith

I have put your book on my bookshelf. Can you please put my friend's book "Ozoneraser" on your bookshelf....

Hello Earl:

What a tremendously, well-researched, thoroughly documented, prolific work! This book exudes academic excellence on so many levels; moreover, it is readable and accessible to a variety of readers at every level of education.

Blessings to you for an an amazingly useful resource!

James Revoir

VERY GOOD STUDY...Best of luck as you move to publish this work.

Hmm, interesting Earl. Thanks for sharing your work. I only had time to look at the first chapter - I didn't mean to stop to read right now, but your book caught my eye.

You may want to look at my book, "The Bible, Sex, and this Generation" The first chapter of my book goes through Genesis looking at marriages/sexual relationships. I'm not really interested in promoting this book really, -it was published over 10 years ago. I only put it on authonomy because I know it's a good read, and it probably should be re-published one day (I'd have to clean it up a bit). It's been a great seller over the last 10 years as a self published book, and many people have written to thank me for it, and said that it really opened their eyes to some things.

Anyway, I thought you may be interested to take at look at my book for your own personal interest.

If you were going to "back" any of my works - then The Multiple Choice is the book I'm interested in promoting!!

Thanks! And I'll star your book highly, cause it looks great from the read I did of the first chapter and your profile info also.

Earl, I find your discussion about the Garden, the serpent, and the Tree of knowledge of Good and Evil to be very helpful.

You make a few points about this Tree, and that God's command was not simply to "know" about evil, but experiencing evil was the sin. For us to "know" evil, we experience it. Such a good break down of how we think about evil, and how we ought to think about it.

Your writing reminds me of "Through the Bible" with James Vernon McGee. The reason I say that is because you discuss things about the text, and not simply give a theological answer, or a simple doctrinal slant. You talk about the text, and give meaningful take aways with it. That makes a big difference for the average reader.

Good job, and I'll be backing this one buddy!

Jonathan, THINC About It.

Apologies for the delay, I am finally back online!! Backed with pleasure

Ruth x

Thank you very much for collecting and posting your research. I bet you are a great teacher! :o)
I also apreciate your source footnotes. They are very helpful. In fact, it showed me that I need to get my hands on an "Enhanced Strong's Hebrew Lexicon". My version is from '92 and still lists the Hebrew word in Genesis 1:1 as "Elohim" and not Eloheem. Maybe that's okay though. Because my 2009 Hebrew "Tanakh" is still printed as Elohim.
But that's probably okay. Being that the masculine plural ending in "Elohim" doesn't refer to "gods" when referring to the "One true God of Israel"; because it is mainly used with adjectives and pronouns that are singular. (Gen.1:26) That is also why if we consider the Trinity (Hashalush HaKadosh), the conjugation of Elohim is appropriate.
I have always loved studying and meditating on the names of God ( as written in the Hebrew Text). They reveal to us His character. One of my favorites is "Elohei Tehillati"- The God of my Praise- in Psalm 109:1. :o)
I liked your dialogue under "The Wise man Made Foolish". It was easy going and real. It reminded me of the dialogue that Zvi uses in his articles in "Israel My Glory" magazine. They are really mission update from his ministry in Jerusalem. Very real conversation like you have here.
I truly appreciated chapter four and your reference to Psalm 33:6. Beautiful! It made me smile because it reminded me of a lesson I learned when I was studying Quantum Physics.
This is what I found that made me smile: The scientists who believe in the "Big Bang"( as coined by Sir Fred Hoyle on BBC-originally this theory was simply called "primeval atom", which is defined not as a "bang" but as an "expansion that is carrying the rest of the universe away from us.") also believe that the "type" of energy that was used to produce this "expansion" is the "type" of energy that we use when we "speak", but a larger scale of this type of energy. Hmmmm. Okay. I'll go with that. ;o) "He SPOKE and it was so......." Psalm 33:6. :o).
Chapter four is as far as I have gotten. I will enjoy coming back to finish this at a later time.

Questions that I thought of:
Is this an "original" commentary or is it taken from other commentaries?
If it is original, what is the "hook" that will get, perhaps, Zondervan to pick it up- I mean, what makes it different from other commentaries?
Have a great week!
Blessings,
Laura A. Diaz
"Come What May"

Thanks for writing this, Earl. I know I will enjoy perusing what you've come up with. Some of these questions have been floating around in the back of my mind for quite some time. I look forward to some answers...highly rated and watchlisted for now. Thanks!

J. Kinkade
The Zero Line

Hi Eric, you write in a way that is wonderfully readable and rich in depth. You have clear intelligence but are also able to communicate in a way that is not above the average reader. I agree with a comment below about possibly adding in a table of contents- with books like this I like to dip in and out and flip backwards and forwards, which of course isn't really possible online. I will keep it on my watchlist as it looks like one I would like to come back to again. Karen

First, I would like to say, this is great. Second, I would like to say, please put in a table of contents. It would be very nice to skip to the answers of certain questions, on occasion, rather than reading strait through a hundred, or is it three hundred, thousand words, and then forgetting the question.

Earl-
Thank you for writing this book. I am not one of those who can read great amounts in rather small amounts of time. I am still working on the book. But the first chapter pulled me in immediately and I began learning in the first few paragraphs. It's on my bookshelf! Congrats on such a great work.
A. M. LaMouria

The Dust and the Glory
Nonfiction
Excellent, professional. This is a compelling study. IMO, this is ready to publish. It will have wide appeal.
Raechel
Echo

One-hundred and sixty thousand words to cover the first 8 chapters of Genesis--what a feat.. I have read the first five chapters so far and find the reading to be mind-stretching, well researched and thought out in great detail, allowing the Bible to interpret the Bible. I find myself looking forward to reading more. I just wish I could remember it all. Backed happily.
Congratulations on a wonderous book,
Roy

Earl,
I've always been intrigued by various scientific explanations surrounding Genesis, especially those stemming from quantum physics and/or the big bang theory which compress a million years into a millisecond, either way a moment in bendable time. Needless to say, your take on Genesis is absolutely stunning. Your meticulous prose breaking down complex thought into simple sentences does us all a great service. Thank you so much for this thought-provoking, engrossing work..

Kenneth Edward Lim
The North Korean

I find it very easy to read what you have written. That is a huge compliment to you, because I am Norwegian and I often find it hard to read teaching books. I tend to like to read things like novels and true stories. It’s the first time I have read and English speaking writing the first book of Moses. I love that, because in my Norwegian bible that is what they are called first second third etc book of Moses. I often find it difficult to remember the English names for those. I do seriously think that the way you write and explain about” Eloheem” and the way you explain the “creation” will be very easy to read for people that don’t know the Lord, they would understand what you are saying. I just wished that someone gave me a book like yours when I was searching for God in my twenties, it would have given me some answers, these was the things that I was wondering of at the time and I wanted answers.
What also makes the reading easy for me as well is that you have written in bold writing the topic of the next paragraph. To share stories in your teaching as well makes it much easier to understand and remember what you are saying. The “the dinner with the scientist, you asked where did the first thing come from?” that is brilliant I love that. I hope and pray that your book will reach to millions of people that want some answerers. Well done!
God bless you
Laila