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

2. 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

3. 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

4. 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

5. 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)

6. 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

7. 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

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

9. ISAAC SACRIFICE Gen 21:8-14 Hagar and Ishmael
Spiritual Life – divestment from attachments
Gen 22: 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)

10. 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

11. 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)

12. 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

13. 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

14. 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’

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