The ANAM Initiative seeks to encourage religious identity and inter-faith brotherhood by teaching one simple Biblical lesson to every Christian and Jewish person… by promoting the ANAM Acronym as a way of providing an instant foundation for remembering the order of Biblical stories.
The ANAM Acronym [which stands for Adam, Noah, Abraham, Moses] is a simple outline for the sequence of events in the first five books of the Hebrew and Christian Bibles (they are the same thing!).
The ANAM Lesson: We learn in the Book of Numbers that there were 10 generations from Adam to Noah and 10 generations from Noah to Abraham. It was 650 years from Abraham to Moses. We are taking literary license and calling 65 years a “generation”, which gives us another 10 generations. (Adam opens, Moses closes!) It’s that simple!
As the ANAM Initiative’s initial promotional/ educational effort, we provide the Aley Sheer music video “In the Bible” as a tool for teaching the ANAM lesson… especially to the young. The song lyrics provide a Biblical narrative. The link is: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CIvocmqv92M
ENJOY!! Then go and study… and teach the lesson to someone else!
The Hope: It is our prayer that a new generation of Christians and Jews will learn thew ANAM Acronym and will teach it to others… sharing their common heritage as a foundation for Biblical learning and brotherhood.