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2.1 Introduction to Genesis

General Introduction. Name: tyvarb, gene,sewj, etc.Authorship: Moses wrote it based on direct attribution in legal material in the Pentateuch (Ex 24.4; 30.11, 17; 33.1, 5, 29; Lev 1.1; 4.1; 6.1; Num 4.1; Deut 1.1, 5; 5.1; 31.22, 30; 33.1). General Introduction. Authorship:Moses used oral and/or w

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2.1 Introduction to Genesis

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    1. 2.1 Introduction to Genesis APTS-BOT620

    2. General Introduction Name: tyvarb, gene,sewj, etc. Authorship: Moses wrote it based on direct attribution in legal material in the Pentateuch (Ex 24.4; 30.11, 17; 33.1, 5, 29; Lev 1.1; 4.1; 6.1; Num 4.1; Deut 1.1, 5; 5.1; 31.22, 30; 33.1)

    3. General Introduction Authorship: Moses used oral and/or written sources, while allowing for copyists footnotes A work attributed to Moses Multiple authors and editors

    4. General Introduction "While Genesis is an anonymous work, as are the other four books of the Pentateuch, its attributive author is Moses. However, to what extent he wrote any of its contents, with the possible exception of all or part of the Joseph narratives, is unknown. In attributing Mosaic authorship to the Pentateuch as a whole, conservative scholars have pointed out that the Torah in its entirety must not necessarily be assumed to have been the work of his own hands, any more that any of the stelae of antiquity were the product of direct activity

    5. General Introduction on the part of their attributive authors. Some writers, such as Young, have not precluded the possibility that the writer drew on earlier written sources, but in general the ascription of Mosaicity to the Pentateuch implies its historicity and its formulation by Moses under divine inspiration, with the supposition that later editors may have revised the contents somewhat in accord with the traditions of the ANE scribes." [R. K. Harrison, Introduction to the Old Testament, 542]

    6. The Text of Genesis Masoretic text (MT) Samaritan Pentateuch (SP) Septuagint (LXX) Genesis fragments from Qumran Targumim

    7. Theories Concerning the Structure of Genesis Call Theory Genesis is structured around the same calls (a) Gen 1-11 concerns the affirmation that God calls the world into being to be his faithful world. (b) Gen 12-50 concerns the affirmation that God calls a special people to be faithfully his people. [Brueggemann]

    8. Theories Concerning the Structure of Genesis Toledoth and the Structure of Genesis 1.1-2.4 Origins of the Cosmos 2.5-5.2 Origins of Humanity 5.3-6.9a Histories of Noah 6.9b-10.1 Histories of the sons of Noah 10.2-11.10a Histories of Shem 11.10b-11.27a Histories of Terah

    9. Theories Concerning the Structure of Genesis 11.27b-25.12 Histories of Ishmael 25.13-25.12 Histories of Isaac 25.19b-36.1 Histories of Esau 36.2-36.9 Histories of Esau 36.10-37.2 Histories of Jacob [Wiseman & Harrison in Garrett, p. 95]

    10. Theories Concerning the Structure of Genesis 5.1-32 Of Adam; includes information on the years of each patriarch 6.9a, 10; 7.6 Of Noah; interrupted by flood narrative 9.18-19, 28-29; 10.1-32 Of Noah's sons; contains incidental details on Nimrod and Babylon 11.10-26 Of Shem; contains information on the years of the patriarchs 11.27-33 Of Terah; describes a family migration

    11. Theories Concerning the Structure of Genesis 25.12-18 Of Ishmael; describes a family migration 25.19-20 Of Isaac; interrupted by the Jacob narrative 35.22b-29; 36.1-43 Of Esau; describes a family migration and lists Edomite Tribal chiefs; may have originated between two separate sources, as indicated in v9 37.1-2a Of Jacob; interrupted by the Joseph narrative 47.8-27 Describes a family migration

    12. Theories Concerning the Structure of Genesis Kikawada & Quinn, Before Abraham Was Prologue Primeval History 1.1-11.26 Transition Genealogy 11.27-32 Threat The Abraham Cycle 12.1-25.11 Transition Genealogy 25.12-18 Threat The Jacob Cycle 25.19-35.22b

    13. Theories Concerning the Structure of Genesis Kikawada & Quinn, Before Abraham Was Transition Genealogy 35.22c-36.40 Threat The Joseph Cycle 37.1-46.7 Transition Genealogy 46.8-27 Resolution Settlement in Egypt 46.28-50.26

    14. Outlines of Genesis Brueggemann 1.1-11.29 THE SOVEREIGN CALL OF GOD (Eph 1.9-10): Will God bring his creation to the unity he intends? 11.3-25.18 THE EMBRACED CALL OF GOD (Heb 11.8,11,17,19): Will Abraham live faith? 25.19-36.43 THE CONFLICTED CALL OF GOD (1 Cor 1.27-29): Will the younger rule the older? 37.1-50.26 THE HIDDEN CALL OF GOD (Rom 8.28-30): Will the dreamer keep his dream?

    15. Outlines of Genesis Wenham 1.1-2.3 Prologue 2.4-4.26 History of heaven and earth 5.1-6.8 Family History of Adam 6.9-9.26 Family History of Noah 10.1-11.9 Family History of Noah's sons 11.10-26 Family History of Shem

    16. Outlines of Genesis 11.27-25.11 Family History of Terah 25.12-18 Family History of Ishmael 25.19-35.29 Family History of Isaac 36.1-37.1 Family History of Esau 37.2-50.26 Family History of Jacob

    17. Kikawada & Quinn's Atrahasis and Gen 1-11 Parallel Outline A. Creation (1.1-2.3) Summary of work of God Creation of man B. First Threat (2.4-3.24) Genealogy of heaven and earth Adam and Eve

    18. Kikawada & Quinn's Atrahasis and Gen 1-11 Parallel Outline C. Second Threat (4.1-4.26) Cain and Abel 1. Cain and Able, genealogy 2. Lamech's taunt (in genealogy) D. Final Threat (5.1-9.29) Genealogy Noah's Flood, Salvation in ark

    19. Kikawada & Quinn's Atrahasis and Gen 1-11 Parallel Outline E. Resolution (10.1-11.32) Genealogy Tower of Babel and Dispersion Genealogy, Abram leaves Ur

    20. Gary A.Rendsburg, The Redaction of Genesis: The Primeval History A Creation, Gods Words to Adam (1.1-3.24) B Adams Sons (4.1-16) C Technological Development of Mankind (4.17-26) D Ten Generations from Adam to Noah (5.1-32) E Downfall: The Nephilim (6.1-8) A Flood, Gods Words to Noah (6.9-9.17) B Noahs Sons (9.18-29) C Ethnic Development of Mankind (10.1-32) E Downfall: Tower of Babel (11.1-9) D Ten Generations from Noah to Terah (11.10-26)

    21. Gary A.Rendsburg, The Redaction of Genesis: The Abraham Cycle A Genealogy of Terah (11.27-32) B Start of Abrams Spiritual Odyssey (12.1-9) C Sarai in foreign palace; ordeal ends in peace and success; Abram and Lot part (12.10-13.18) D Abram comes to the rescue of Sodom and Lot (14.1-24) E Covenant with Abram; Annunciation of Ishmael (15.1-16.16)

    22. Gary A.Rendsburg, The Redaction of Genesis: The Abraham Cycle E Covenant with Abraham; Annunciation of Isaac (17.1-18.15) D Abraham comes to rescue of Sodom and Lot (18.16-19.38) C Sarah in foreign palace; ordeal ends in peace and success; Abraham and Ishmael part (20.1-21.34) B Climax of Abrahams Spiritual Odyssey (22.1-19) A Genealogy of Nahor (22.20-24)

    23. Gary A.Rendsburg, The Redaction of Genesis: The Jacob Cycle A Oracle sought, struggle in childbirth, Jacob born (25.19-34) B Interlude: Rebekah in foreign palace, pact with foreigners (26.1-34) C Jacob fears Esau and flees (27.1-28.9) D Messengers (28.10-22) E Arrival at Haran (29.1-30) F Jacobs wives are fertile (29.31-30.24)

    24. Gary A.Rendsburg, The Redaction of Genesis: The Jacob Cycle F Jacobs flocks are fertile (30.25-43) E Flight from Haran (31.1-54) D Messengers (32.1-32) C Jacob returns and fears Esau (33.1-20) B Interlude: Dinah in foreign palace, pact with foreigners (34.1-31) A Oracle fulfilled, struggle in childbirth, Jacob becomes Israel (35.1-22)

    25. Gary A.Rendsburg, The Redaction of Genesis: The Linking Material A Death and Burial of Sarah (23.1-20) B Marriage of Isaac (24.1-67) C Abrahams sons (25.1-6) D Death and burial of Abraham (25.7-11) E Ishmaels sons (25.12-18)

    26. Gary A.Rendsburg, The Redaction of Genesis: The Linking Material A ---- C Jacobs sons (35.23-26) D Death and burial of Isaac (35.27-29) B Marriages of Esau (36.1-5) E Esaus sons (36.6-43)

    27. Gary A.Rendsburg, The Redaction of Genesis: The Joseph Story A Joseph and his brothers, Jacob and Joseph part (37.1-36) B Interlude: Joseph not present (38.1-30) C Reversal: Joseph guilty, Potiphars wife innocent (39.1-23) D Joseph hero of Egypt (40.1-41.57) E Two trips to Egypt (42.1-43.34) F Final test (44.1-34)

    28. Gary A.Rendsburg, The Redaction of Genesis: The Joseph Story F Conclusion of Test (45.1-28) E Two tellings of migration to Egypt (46.1-47.12) D Joseph here of Egypt (47.13-27) C Reversal: Ephraim firstborn, Manasseh second-born (47.28-48.22) B Interlude: Joseph nominally present (49.1-28) A Joseph and his brothers, Jacob and Joseph part (49.29-50.26)

    29. The Purpose of the Book of Genesis "The function of Genesis as a book of the Bible is to take those who read it and those who hear its message to the things of the beginning. [Westermann]

    30. The Purpose of Genesis 1-11 Von Rad understands the purpose of these chapters to have been first determined by the Yahwist, who portrayed a history of increasing alienation from God. Starting with the expulsion from the Garden of Eden, sin expanded and grew, resulting in the murder of Abel, the illicit marriage of the angels and the flood. This history of sin reached its climax in the Tower of Babel which threatened to return the creation into a chaos. The key to von Rad's Heilsgeschichtliche interpretation lies in the call of Abraham (12.1-3). The election of Israel provides the perspective from which this universal history of divine judgment and mercy toward human sinfulness is viewed in Genesis. It provides the major theological Genesis by linking Israel's redemptive history to world history. [Childs Introduction to the Old Testament as Scripture, 154]

    31. The Purpose of Genesis 1-11 "Westermann...does not believe that Gen 1-11 should be subordinated to the patriarchal traditions of chs 12ff. but sharply distinguished in order to do justice to the integrity of the primeval history. Westermann stresses that these chapters do not move on the horizontal plane of history, but rather portray a vertical God-man dimension. They treat the universal reality of human existence which is not tied to a specific time or culture. Further, he makes the significant point that the biblical writers of chs. 1-11 have adopted texts which arose in the world outside of Israel and do not stem from the experience of Israel with Yahweh. He connect the theory that a growth of sin is intended, but argues for seeing only a portrayal of the variety and scope of the alienation. Finally, Westermann claims that the purpose of chs. 1-3 is not to portray a primeval age of innocence - there is no "fall" for Westermann - but rather to deal with the issue of human existence in its frailty and limitation." [Childs, ibid., 154-155]

    32. The Purpose of Genesis 12-36 Promises Genealogy

    33. The Purpose of Genesis 37-50 "The first observation to make is that the Toledoth formula in 37.2 introduces the family of Jacob. Judah's story is as much a part of the history as is Joseph's, and the disproportionate length assigned to each is of little importance. The intention to deal with the whole family Jacob is confirmed by the inclusion of all the twelve sons in Jacob is confirmed by the inclusion of all the twelve sons in Jacob's final testament in ch. 49. The "blessings of Jacob" also reveal an important perspective of the tradition. It is from the line of Judah, not Joseph, that Israel's redemption is to come. The point of this section seems to lie somewhere in the contrast between the stories of these two sons in relations to the promise. Joseph became the means of preserving the family in a foreign country (50.20), but also the means by which a new threat to the promise of the land was realized. Conversely, Judah demonstrated an unfaithfulness which threatened to destroy the promise of a posterity, which was only restored by the faithfulness of a Canaanite wife. In sum, the final section of the book of Genesis turns on the issue of the threat to the promise which leads inevitably to the book of Exodus." [Childs, ibid., 156-157]

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