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| Genesis is essentially an anonymous work historically however its authorship has been attributed to Moses. Howes should be considered more of an editor/compiler than author. All of the events of Genesis in fact occurred long before he was born. indicating that must have used sources. in addition to receiving direct communication from the Divine. he drew together a detailed family history of Abraham and his descendants. there are scholars who doubt that Moses wrote genesis at all. they usually support of the variant theories regarding the authorship of the Pentatuch. If Moses wrote or compiled the Pentatuch he probably, did it during Israel's wanderings in the desert. we will get into this more later when we discuss the various theories regarding the exact date of the exoddus. Some scholars suggest that the Pentatuch was mor likely written during the Babylonian exile around 550 BCE |
| Genesis records the events of the creation, the fall into sin, and records the stories of Noah Abraham Isaac and Jacob. the stories of Genesis were probably spread among the Israelites orally for a long time before being written down. reminding them of familial and spiritual history as well as explaining their present circumstances. Genesis also preserved the histories of individuals like Joseph. that gave hope to Gods chosen people in enslavement. it also would have given them encouragement. later generations directly involved in the exodus as well as their subsequent descendants would read Genesis to understand this piece of their history. the culmination of God's promises to Abraham. |
| Genesis records the origins and early beginning of mankind. God not only made the world, he also made mankind, both man and woman in his own image and gave them the gift of free will. changes happened over time. including humans fall from grace which resulted in the great flood. tribes gave rise to cities and cities turned into empires in a cycle that has characterized the entire existence of humanity |
| Not how quickly humankind turned their backs on perfect union with God. And how God reacted. then through the unusual of a childless patriarch God began to mold the family from which the Israelites would spring. Study the life of Joseph from his time as a slave to his meteoric rise to power in a foreign land. To the unveiling of his identity to his brothers. Genesis explains how and why the Israelites ended up in Egypt. setting the stage for their eventual departure and what would happen after |
| A person in the ancient Near East could claim the rights to a well that was on someone else's property The bride price paid by the groom's family was held in trust to provide for the wife in case she was abandoned or widowed A man's Seal, Cord, and Staff were proof of his individual and corporate identity, basically the ancient equivalent of an ID Card. Both the Egyptians and the Babylonians compiled books of dreams, which contained sample dreams to help with dream interpretation. The philosophy behind the practice of embalming was a belief that the body needed to be preserved for use in the after life |
| Genesis the Book of Beginnings has these themes: Creation: God created the world. "it was very good." there was wholeness and harmony between God and there was also harmony within humanity and also between humans and nature. Sin: sin entered through the choice by Adam to eat the apple, Unbelief, Human Conflict, Illness and Natural Degradation are the consequences. The Image Of God: Every human is created in the image of God. every person has God's Likeness as a Rational, Creative and Moral being. Men and Women are equal in the eyes of God. God's Plan For Redemption: Though God chose to work through one specific cultural group in the Old Testament it was always his plan that all peoples would come to know him through Abrahams descendants, Abraham was chosen by God because of his faith, making Abraham the father of all who express faith in God. |
| Noble god of the first occasion, who built people and gave birth to the gods original one who made it possible for all to live in whose heart it was spoken, who saw them evolve who foretold who thought of what is. ---from a Ramesside stela |
| In the beginning God made the heavens and the earth. In the beginning, the earth was formless and empty, and darkness covered the surface of the deep, and god hovered over the waters. And God said Let light exist, and there was light, and God saw that the light was good. And he separated the light from the darkness, and there was evening, and there was morning the first day. And God said Let there be an expanse between the waters to separate water from water. So he made the expanse and separated the water under the expanse from the water above it. He called the expanse sky. There was evening, and there was morning the second day. And God said Let the water under the expanse be gathered in to one place. And let dry ground appear, it was so, and the ground he called land, and the water he called sea. Then God said let the land produce vegetation seed bearing plants and trees that bear fruit with seeds in it according to their various kinds. And it was so the land produces vegetation, plants that bore seeds and trees that bore fruit with seeds in them. And God saw that it was good and was evening and there was morning, the third day. And God said let there be light s in the expanse of the Sky to separate the Day from the Night. And let them serve as signs to mark the seasons and says and years. Let them be lights in the expanse of the Sky to illuminate the earth. God made two great lights the greater one to govern the Day and the lesser one to govern the Night.he also made the stars. God set them in the expanse of the Sky to govern the Day and the Night and to separate Light from Darkness. And God saw that it was good and there was Evening and there was Morning the fourth Day And God said let the water teen with living creatures and let birds fly above the earth and across the expanse of the Sky and so God created every living and moving things with which the water teems according to their kind and every bird according to it's kind. And God saw that it was good. And he blessed them and said "Be fruitful and increase in number and fill the waters of the seas and let the birds increase in number. And there was Evening and there was Morning the fifth Day. Then God said let the land produce living creatures according to their kinds. Livestock, creatures that move along the ground and wild creatures according to their kind. And it was so God made live stock according to their kinds, wild animals according to their kinds and all the creatures that move along the ground according to their kinds. And God saw that it was good. Then God said let us make Man in our imageand let them rule over the creatures of the sea, over the birds of the air, over the livestock and all the earth.and over all the creatures that move along the ground. God created Man in his own image In the image of he created him Male and Female he created them. God blessed them and said "Be fruitful and increase in number fill the earth and sudue it. Rule over the Fish of the Sea the Birds of the air and every creature that moves on the ground." And God said bearing plant and every tree that bears fruit with seeds in it. They will be yours for food. And to all the beasts of the earth all the birds of the air all the creatures that move on ground I give every green plant for food. And there was Evening and there was morning the Sixth Day This the heavens were made in all their vast array. By the Seventh Day God had finish the work he had been doing. So on the Seventh Day he rested. And made it holy because on it he rested from all the work of creating he had done |
| In contrast to the biblical narrative, ancient Creation stories from Mesopotamia, Egypt, and Syria-Palestine do more than try to explain how the physical world came into being. Creation Myths often elevated a specific god from a particular shrine to supremacy over all other gods to increase the prestige of that god or that shrine, or the city where that shrine was located. For example, Egyptian Creation myths assert that a primordial mound that arose out of a primeval sea was the site from which a specific god created the world. Several shrines claimed to be the spot from which the world was created, and that the god of the particular shrine was the creator. At Memphis, it was Psah; at Hermopolis, it was Thoth; at Heliopolis, it was Re-Atum. In Heliopolis, there is a statue that supposedly marks the very spot where Re-Atum alighted in the form of a Bennu Bird to begin the creation process. Common motifs in Creation Myths include a spontaneous generation of gods, sexual reproduction among gods, and the deification of nature—for example, the sun and moon. A creation myth often focuses on the unique geographical features of the location of a particular shrine. Sometimes creation myths relate battles between the gods and monsters that inhabit a primordial watery chaos. And through the battle, one or more gods rise to supremacy. Sometimes, creation occurs when a god defeats a primordial monster and divides its body into two; the two parts become the heavens and the earth. Or earth and sea and so on. The Babylonian creation myth Enuma Elish describes the defeat of Tiamat, the mother goddess and sea monster, by the god Marduk after a terrible battle. Marduk divides her body in half like a fish for dryingand uses it to form the heavenly dome. This victory supposedly establishes Marduk's supremacy over the other gods. Greek Creation Myths are similar. After initial chaos, Gaia, the earth goddess, and Uranus, the sky, emerge a series of monster gods such as Cronos and Typhon, and the Titans are born to them, but Zeus, the son of Cronos, defeats these beings and establishes the world order. People in Creation Myths are typically portrayed as drudges or slaves who exist primarily to do the gods' dirty work or feed the gods with sacrifices. The Genesis narrative challenges the claims of the other creation myths. establishing God's sovereignty by stating that the heavenly bodies and sea creatures were his creations, and by presenting people as God's stewards and image bearers, instead an afterthought born of divine need or laziness. The Sun and Moon are referred to as the great light and the small light. Why? By describing them like this, the bible reduces them to the status of physical objects that only rule in the sense that they emit light and mark the calendar. In contrast, in many ancient languages, the very for sun or moon also refers to the corresponding god or goddess. For instance, in Hebrew word for sun is shemesh, Shamesh is the name of the Mesopotamian sun god, and selene, the Greek word for moon, is also the name of a moon goddess. Similarly, the ancients regarded the stars and constellations as divine beings. in contrast, the bible's statement that God made the stars, demotes these bodies to created objects. Genesis rejects the deification of nature, which is the central premise of pagan religion. interestingly, it does not try to lift Yahweh to supremacy over other gods. In the seven-day creation account, Yahweh is not even named; they are simply referred to as God. Even Genesis VV 2-3 provides no sense that Yahweh needed to establish his supremacy over other gods. there is no mention of a battle between gods and monsters, nor is there a mention of a specific place or shrine at which the creation occurred. there is also no mention of a particular object that was used in the act of creation. The God of Genesis 1 is truly universal. |
| This is the account of the heavens and the earth at the time of creation. When the Lord made the Heavens and the earth, and no shrub of the field had yet appeared in the world. And no plant had yet sprouted, for God had not sent rain over the earth. And there was no one to work the ground. However, streams rose from the earth and watered the whole surface of the ground. God formed Man from the dust of the ground. |
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