Against the Gods

John D. Currid (PhD, University of Chicago) is the Carl W. McMurray Professor of Old Testament at Reformed Theological Seminary. He is currently an adjunct faculty member at the Jerusalem Center for Biblical Studies in Jerusalem, Israel, and serves as project director of the Bethsaida Excavations Project in Israel (1995-present). He lectures and preaches worldwide.

• 1.  A Brief History of Ancient Near Eastern Studies2.  The Nature of Polemical Thought and Writing3.  Genesis 1 and Other Ancient Near Eastern Creation Accounts4.  Ancient Near Eastern Flood Accounts and the Noahic Deluge of Genesis 6–95.  Joseph, the Tale of the Two Brothers, and the Spurned Seductress Motif6.  The Birth of the Deliverer7.  The Flights of Sinuhe and Moses8.  Who is “I am that I am”? Exodus 3 and the Egyptian Book of the Heavenly Cow9.  The Rod of Moses10. The Parting of the Waters of the Red Sea11. Canaanite Motifs