1-11: Creation and Early World 12-50: Patriarchs GENESIS 1-11: Creation and Early World 12-50: Patriarchs

COVENANTS Agreement with promises under oath. Late Bronze age Hittite Covenants Rock and Clay tablets in Turkey (3300 to 1200 BC) Kinship – Makes us Family Suzerain – Makes us Allies Grant type – Gives reward berit * diatheke * sacramentum

CREATION STORY – Gen 1 Creatio ex nihilo Formless and Void 1 – Light/Darkness 2 – Dome (sky) 3 – Dry Land/Plants 4 – Sun/Moon/Stars 5 – Birds and Fish 6 – Beasts and Humans 7 – Blessed and Rest (shabbat) 1:2 – Wind and Waters 1:26 – Image and Likeness 1:28 – God blessed them 2:3 – The Sabbath

CREATION STORY – Gen 2 Gen 2:7 – Creation of man Gen 2:15 – Till and Keep (avad & shamar) Gen 2:18 – Man to be alone Gen 2:23 – Marriage Gen 2:24 – Kinship Covenant Gen 2:25 – Original Innocence

ADAM AND EVE’S GIFTS Original Justice - Holiness Original Innocence – No lies, deception, sin Original Harmony – 4 fold God, Family, Work Image and Likeness of God (Seal of the HS – Rom 8:9-10, Rom 8:13, Eph 1:13-14) Preternatural Gifts Integrity (free of concupiscence) Infused Knowledge Immortality Walked with God (Gen 3:8)

THE FALL – ORIGINAL SIN Snake? Rev 20:2 – a dragon Devil’s tricks Gen 3:1 – Lie Gen 3:3 – Lie Gen 3:4 – Suggestive First Fall? Jer 2:20 – Non serviam Aveternity

Gen 3:6 – Three Fold Concupiscence 1 John 2:16 Jesus’s Temptation Good for food Lust of the flesh Stone to bread Delight to eyes Lust of the eyes Throw self down Desire wisdom Pride of life Power to rule

PATRIARCHS - ABRAHAM Gen 12:1 Abram’s Call Gen 15:4-21 Land, Oath ritual, Righteousness (fire pot, flaming torch) Gen 17:4-7 Great name, Circumcision Gen 22:15-18 Universal Blessing, Act of Trust shem, yadah

ISAAC SACRIFICE Gen 21:8-14 Hagar and Ishmael Spiritual Life – divestment from attachments Gen 22:1-14 Sacrifice of Isaac Aquedah – Binding Ram – Shofar (Josh 6:5, Jericho) Mt Moriah Mt. Zion in Jerusalem (Temple) Mt. Golgotha (Adam’s) Evan Shetiyah (Foundation Stone-Isa 28:16)

Hebrew and Israelite Hebrew first used in Gen 14:13 Abraham’s ancestor Eber (great x4 grandfather) Israelite – Jacob’s name change to Israel in Gen 35:10 Used – Gen 47:8

GOD Gen 3:14 – God reveals name to Moses YHWH – tetragrammaton (4 letters) יהוה LORD – English translation of YHWH Elohim or el – God YHWH Elohim – LORD God Adonai – My Lord (when reading sacred writings) Hashem – The man, or name (when conversating)

GENESIS – SUGGESTED READING The whole book. Chap Theme 1 Creation 2 Eden & Humans 3 Fall 4 Cain & Abel & Seth 5 Adam to Noah & Sons 6 Flood warning 7 Flood 8 Leave Ark 9 Noahic Covenant 11 Tower of Babel   Shem to Abraham 12 Abram’s call 13 Abram & Lot part 14 5 Kings, Melchizedek 15 Covenant (Land) Smoking fire pot/torch Chap Theme 16 Hagar and Ishmael 17 Covenant (Great Name)   Circumcision 18 Abraham’s visitors 21 Birth of Isaac Hagar sent off 22 Abraham testing Covenant (Blessing) Esau & Jacob born 27 Jacob’s deception 35 Jacob’s name change Jacob’s 12 sons 37-50 Joseph’s Narrative

GENESIS – MAIN THEMES We become part of God’s family through Covenants Adamic Covenant Noahic Covenant Abrahamic Covenant With the Fall all was lost except God’s Image and clothes of animal skins. Gen 3:15 promises a Redeemer to restore us to Righteousness Man, “sin cycle” until made clean: sin>judgement>consequences>partial restoration>sin

WHY WERE WE CREATED? “God created the universe in order to be able to become a human being and pour out his love upon us and to invite us to love him in return. ~ Pope Benedict ‘In the Beginning…A Catholic Understanding of the Story of Creation and the Fall’

שָׁלוֹם בְּרָכָה וְטוֹבָה Peace, blessing and (all) good (to you). Shalom berakhah ve-tovah שָׁלוֹם בְּרָכָה וְטוֹבָה Peace, blessing and (all) good (to you).