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Pentateuch Ideas - Coggle Diagram
Pentateuch Ideas
Message of Genesis
The Hope for Blessing in a Cursed World
Assumption
Books are primarily addressing Egypt's needs, not ours
The books fit their cultural and theological background
Issues addressed
Who God is
What worship means
How this world functions
Purpose in life and response to God through their worldview
What hope exists for a future
Purpose
To provide Israel with their purpose as a nation
The Beginning
The Creation of the World (1:1)
Forming and Filling (1:2-31)
Fourfold repetition
"God saw"
"God separated"
"God called"
"God said"
Light and dark
Celestial lights
Sky and water
Birds and fish
Water and land
Land animals and mankind
Rest (2:1-4a)
Macroview of Genesis
Genesis 12-50
Patriarchal narratives
Mounting deception
Sons of Jacob
Joseph
Judah
Other sons
Abraham
God's call
Land
Offspring
Isaac
Near sacrifice
Blessing on Jacob
Blessing
Jacob
Hope of all humanity
Dilemma
Lamech vs. Enoch
Lamech
7th generation
Typical of rebellion
Boasts of evil
Enoch
7th generation
Typical of faith
Walks with God
Genesis 1-11
Primeval narratives
Adam and Eve (Ch. 2)
Sin and its Consequences (Ch. 3-11)
Creation (Ch. 1)
Pentateuch
Themes
Sovereignty of God
History
Fallen Condition of Humanity
Salvation
Holiness
Authors
Traditional Consensus
Modern Critical Approaches
Source Criticism
Redaction and form criticism
Tradition Criticism
Canonical and literary approaches
Recent developments