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- Toledot
- The Ten generations used in Genesis to structure the book.
- TaNaKh
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Hebrew scripture and writings
Torah Nebim Kethubim -
Primeval History?
Ancestral History? -
*Genesis 1-11
*Genesis 12-50 - Hellenism
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*333 to 63 B.C.E.
*Alexander the Great - List the "core" beliefs to the Jewish community starting with the core. Give dates.
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*Torah (Law) 400 BCE
*Nebim (Prophets) 200 BCE
*Kethubim (Writings) 1 CE - Priestly Source
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*550-450 BCE (Written while in Babylonian exile)
*1st creationist story lots of genealogy - Family Tree?
- (SEE DRAWING)
- Deuteronomist
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*700-600 BCE
*Concerned w/ history and historical facts
*Possibily Levi source - Biblia
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*Means Books
*Bible intended to be read together - Septuagint
- *Greek Version of Torah
- Vulgate
- *Latin version of Torah
- Abraham Cycle
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Gen. 12-24
1. Call and Covenant
2. Abraham and Isaac: Birth,Challenge, Testing
3. Last Days - Anatolia
- *North of Canaan home of hittites
- Anthropomorphism
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*giving God "human" characteristics
*characteristics of Yahwist writer - Diaspora
- *Scattering of Jews
- Yahweh
- *"Lord" Personal word
- Most common name for God in Hebrew times
- Elohim
- Joseph Cycle
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*Gen. 37-50
1. Joseph to Egypt
2. Judah and Tamar
3. Joseph's rise to power in Egypt
4. Joseph and his brothers
5. Jacob's family in Egypt - Apocrypha
- Included in the Catolic Canon
- Torah
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*Law
*Hebrew Canon - Pentateuch
- *Another name for Torah or first five books of Bible
- Nevi'im
- *Prophets
- Six Parts of OT biblical narrative?
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*Creation
*Fall
*Covenant
*Exodus and Torah
*Rise and fall of the nation and the prophetic vocation
*Exile - Jacob cycle
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Gen. 25-36
1. Jacob and Esau: Birth, Birthright, Blessing, Flight
2. Jacob and Laban: Jacob meets his match
3. Jacob and Esau: Reconciliation - Kethubim
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Writings
Last of the three main divisions of the Hebrew bible - Hebrew
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*Language of Israelites
*Language most of the OT bible written in - Documentary Hypothesis
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*Scholarly hypothesis that suggest Torah not the work of one author
*JEPD - Covenant
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*A call and a promise
*a deal between amn and God requiring something from both sides - Canon
- *Rod or ruler
- Canaan
- Promised Land occcupied by Hebrews
- Israel
- *Entire area of Canaan occupied by the Israelites
- Elohist Source
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*Uses Elohim
*Not as Colorful
*850 BCE - Judah
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*Home of Yahwist source
*Name of Southern Kingdom - Genre of Genesis
- Saga
- What did God give to Jacob after they wrestled?
- *A new Name, Israel
- Cosmology
- *A model of the structure of physical universe
- Inclusion
- *A literary technique that ends a unit of text with the same or similar words to create wholeness and literary closure
- Yahwist
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*Anthropomorphic look at God
*LORD
*earliest source