The Holy Bible: The Pentateuch, Genesis to Deuteronomy

Biography Eileen Maddocks grew up in Maine and graduated from the University of Kansas with a liberal arts degree. She was a seeker half her life until she discovered and embraced the Bahá’í Faith. When first introduced to the Bahá’í Faith, she was seized by the fact that God has always been active in human history, that He had sent many Prophets of God to educate humanity. Having majored in history during her university studies, Eileen was astonished to realize that the single most important factor in human history, God and His Prophets, was not recognized by professional historians. She served at the Bahá’í World Centre in Haifa, Israel, for sixteen years in positions that required extensive research and writing. Eileen is now an independent researcher and writer who describes herself as a curious student. She took to heart ‘Abdu’l-Bahá’s admonition that we must know the Old and New Testaments as the Word of God. She has been especially interested in the Hebrew prophets and their importance to us today. Her first book, 1844: Convergence in Prophecy for Judaism, Christianity, Islam and the Bahá’í Faith, was published in 2018. This book covered the Millerite movement and the origins of nineteenth-century adventism. She is now finishing the trilogy The Coming of the Glory: How the Hebrew Scriptures Reveal the Plan of God that presents a Bahá’í perspective of the Hebrew Bible and its prophecies and importance for us today. This study presents in a chronological, systematic manner the ministries and prophecies of the Hebrew prophets within the context of Israelite history. The last and third volume will be published soon. Eileen lives in the bucolic state of Vermont and balances her writer’s lifestyle with a study of classical ballet for exercise and artistic expression. Two cats edit her work by walking across the keyboard and interrupting her with their plaintive insistence that it’s mealtime.

Peter Terry is an author, teacher and scholar, with eight published books, four chapters published in books, and fiftypapers available online. His principal areas of expertise are religious scripture, history, education, philosophy and theology.  For a number of years he taught online courses for the Wilmette Institute, and presented papers for the Irfan Colloquium and the Association for Baha'i Studies.  Recently he has presented on a variety of Baha'i-related topics zoomed by the Clearwater Baha'i community. Peter is also a frequent contributor to the Explorations series of zoom presentations hosted by the Baha’is of Clearwater, Florida, at: http://clearwaterbahais.org/online-classes. His talks can also be found on their YouTube channel at: https://www.youtube.com/c/ClearwaterBahais.