REL 205 Lecture Notes - Lecture 9: Moab, Israelites, National Memory
16 Sep 2016
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9-14 genesis: the ancestors (genesis 12-25) (session 1) One possibility: patriarchal history (brettler 49-50: history, anachronisms attributing or referring to something in a time period where it does not belong, ur of the chaldeans (gen 11:31) No chaldeans in ur at the time of narrating. Would be known of the audience of the composition: philistines (gen 26:2) No philistines in the land of canaan until the. Tamar: females are significant, very strong characters who frequently do better than the male characters. Stories about the ancestors what to call this material: stories maybe it was intended to be history writing and maybe it wasn"t, attempt at history successful or not, about all of the ancestors men and women. Abram was rescued by god, god intervened and saved him, no matter how messy the situation is: story isn"t there to give you a bunch of details and facts control.
