RELIGST 2B03 Lecture Notes - Lecture 5: New Revised Standard Version, Priestly Source, Zilpah
23 Apr 2016
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Primeval history creation and beginnings of man. Jacob (gen 25:19-36:40) ---- leah rachel, bilhah and zilpah. Ch 15: god enters into a covenant with abraham. Vivid description of how god makes that covenant ritual. Two chapters later in ch 17, god makes a covenant with abraham all over again as if he hadn"t made a covenant. To abraham, repeated to isaac, to jacob, to moses. Patriarchal stories male figures that are usually named remembrance of the matriarchs are very very rare. Ch12: he tells the pharaoh that he is his sister. In ch 26, isaac tries to do the same thing with his wife. During the political orientated stories, women figures disappear. The working out of the call of god from what god wanted in the garden is now being carried out in this family of abraham. Most of these stories deal with the two major problems. Rachel: made joseph as favourite of 12 sons.
