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  • “Genesis” – Notes

    The following notes are taken from my Zondervan NIV Study Bible from “Introduction:Genesis”.

    “Author and Date of Writing” section

    • Moses was the author (2)
    • “4th year of Solomon’s reign was the same as the 480 year after the Exodus” relates to 1 Kings. Thus “Exodus 1446 BC (2)
    • “40 years of desert wanderings 1446 – 1406” (2)

    “Theological Theme and Message” section

    • Relationships (2)
      • “God and creation”
      • “God and humankind”
      • “Relationships between humankind”
    • Monotheistic God
      • vs. polytheistic “many gods” (2)
      • vs. atheist “no god” (2)
      • vs. pantheistic “everything is Divine” (2)
    • 10 Main sections each beginning with the word “account”
      • 1:1-11:26 primeval account

    “Literary Features” Section

    • “The narrative frequently concentrates on the life of a later son in preference to a first born.” (3)
    • prose punctuated by poetry
    • “vertical and horizontal parallelism between the two sets of three days” (3)
    • “ebb and flow of sin and judgment” (3)
      • “(the serpent and woman and man sin successively; then God questions them in reverse order; then he judges them” (3)
    • “powerful monotony of ‘then he died’” @ the end of paragraphs in ch 5 (3)
    • “the climactic hinge effect of the phrase ‘But God remembered Noah’ (8:1) at the midpoint of the flood story” (3)
    • “the hourglass structure of the account of the tower of Babel in 11:1-9” (3)
    • “the alternation between brief accounts about 1st born sons and lengthy accounts about younger sons” (3)
    • “subjects in first three chapters of Genesis repeated in last three chapters of Revelation” (3)

    Works Cited

    Zondervan NIV Study Bible. Edited by Kenneth L. Barker, et.al. Zondervan, 2002.

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