The three-part Bible story

In this series of two blog posts from The Hump of the Camel I develop the biblical theology I have been working on with reference to both the work of John Sailhamer and Seth Postell, and Joshua Swamidass's Geneaological Adam theory. Here I suggest that the whole overarching biblical narrative can be seen as in the form of a powerful three-part "folk tale", in which God seeks to transform the world firstly through Adam, with disastrous results, then through Israel, and finally and successfully through Jesus Christ, who in his success carries through the work bot as the "second Adam" and the "true Israel". This also casts light on the relationship between Genesis 1 and Genesis 2, the former acting narratively as the initial setting for all that follows.