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Middle Bronze Age:
2100-1550
BCE
Late Bronze Age:
1550-ca.1200
BCE
BCE:
before common era
Possible date of Exodus:
1250 BCE
Beginning of the Iron Age:
1200 BCE
Merneptah Stele
:
1207
BCE
Assyrians destroy
Northern Kingdom
of
Israel
: 722 BCE
Babylonians destroy Southern Kingdom of Judah:
586
BCE
Period of the Old Testament's composition:
1150-165
BCE
Range of the DSS composition:
250 BCE-50
CE
Muratorian Canon
: 3rd/4th cent. CE
Easter Letter of Athanasius:
367
CE
Claromontanus Catalog:
4th
cent.
CE
Aleppo
Codex:
930
CE
Codex Leningradensis:
1008
CE
TaNaK: Torah,
Nevi'im
, and
Ketuvim
Pentateuch
: 5 books (Genesis,
Exodus
, Leviticus,
Numbers
, and
Deuteronomy
)
GLEND
Torah
(
“Law
,” “Instruction”)
Genesis Chapters 1-11: the
primeval
(i.e., “of the
first age”
)
history
Genesis Chapters
12-50
: the
ancestral
narratives
Sources
of
Pentateuch
:
Reconstructed
sources, patterns within the biblical text, classic model:The
Documentary
Hypothesis(Julius Wellhausen c. 1878)
J
-Yahwist
(German “Jahvist” ca. 950 BCE)
Yahweh
(“the LORD”)E
-Elohist
(c. 850 BCE)Elohim (“God”)D
-Deuteronomy
(c. 621 BCE)P
-Priestly
Source (c. 550 BCE)
Genesis 1&2 diff.: The names for
God
are different.Gen 1—Elohim “God”Gen 2—Yahweh Elohim
“the LORD God
Genesis 1&2 diff.: The picture of
God
differs.Gen
1—transcendenceGen 2—immanence
Genesis
1 & 2 portrayelements of
creation
asthings, not gods!Focus:
God
& humans
God as both
all-powerful
(Gen 1, P) and personal(Gen
2
, J)
Humans
as culminating (Gen 1) or central(
Gen
2) act of
creation
Gen 1 Creation: God
all-powerful
; creation is ‘good’;humankind as
culmination
(
imago
dei)
Gen 2-4 Creation: God as
personal
;
humankind
as central
Gen 6-9
Flood
: broken and then renewed relationshipbetween God & humankind (plus all living things)
Genesis 11 Babel: human
presumption
against God;divisions among
humankind
Eponymous
ancestors:
Ancestors
who provide thenames of
later
groups
Abraham
(Genesis 12-25) Isaac (Genesis 24; 26)
Jacob
(Genesis 25-36)
Joseph
(Genesis
37-50
Abraham
travel: Travel 1: Ur to
Haran
& Travel 2: Haran to
Canaan
God’s Call & Promise (Gen 12) Abundant
Offspring
,
Land
, Blessing
Change of names: Abram>Abraham Sarai>Sarah Elohim (
‘God’
) > El Shaddai (
‘God Almighty’
)
Gen
17
: sign is
circumcision
Jacob the trickster: dupes Esau to
forfeit birthright
Deception of Isaac:
steals blessing
Flees
to his uncle: Laban at Haran also to find a
wife
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