3.0  Israel Looks at the Beginnings
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last revised: 9/21/04
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3.1 The Beginnings (Genesis 1-11)
T:37-44---Comparison Chart of Creation Stories
3.1.1 The Primeval History
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3.1.2 Enuma Elish
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3.1.3 The Israelite Understanding of Creation
3.1.4 Genesis 1:1-2:4a
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3.1.5 Genesis 2:4b-2:25
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3.1.6 The Fall (Gen. 3:1-24)
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3.1.7 Cain and Abel (Gen. 4:1-26)
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3.1.8 Adam's Descendants (Gen. 5:1-32)
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3.1.9 Flood Stories and the Flood (Gen. 6:1-9:19)
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3.1.9.1 The Gilgamesh Epic
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3.1.9.2 The Atrahasis Epic
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3.1.9.3 The Flood (Gen. 5:32-8:22)
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3.1.9.4 The Covenant (Gen. 9:1-17)
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3.1.10 The Tower of Babel (Gen. 11:1-9)
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3.1.11 The Summary (Genesis chaps 1-11)

3.2 The Patriarchs (Genesis 12-50)
3.2.1 Introduction
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3.2.1.1 The Time

3.2.1.2 Their Lifestyle

3.2.2 Abraham, the First of the "First" Fathers (Gen. 12-25)

3.2.2.1 From Ur to Egypt (Gen. 12)
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3.2.2.2 Conflict and Covenant (Gen. 13-16)
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3.2.2.3 The covenant and Circumcision (Gen. 17)
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3.2.2.4 The Promise of New Life and the Forebodings of Doom (Gen. 18-19)
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3.2.2.5 Isaac and Ishmael (Gen. 21)
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3.2.2.6 The Test (Gen. 22)
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3.2.2.7 Sarah's Death and Burial (Gen. 23)
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3.2.2.8 A Wife for Isaac (Gen. 24:1-25:18)
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3.2.3 Isaac, the Hyphen between Abraham and Jacob (Gen. 25-27)

3.2.4 Jacob, the Supplanter (Gen 27-36)

3.2.4.1 Jacob and Esau (Gen. 25:19-34; 27:1-45)
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3.2.4.2 Buying the Birthright (Gen. 25:29-34)
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3.2.4.3 Stealing the Blessing (Gen. 27:1-45)
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3.2.4.4 Jacob on the Run (Gen. 27:46-28:22)
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3.2.4.5 Jacob and Laban: An Amateur versus a professional (Gen. 29:1-30)
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3.2.4.6 Jacob and Laban: The Tables are Turned (Gen 30:1-31:55)
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3.2.4.7 Jacob and Esau: A Man Faces His Past (Gen. 32:1-33:20)
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3.2.4.8 Trouble at Shechem (Gen. 34)
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3.2.4.9 Back to Bethel and Two Genealogies (Gen. 35-36)
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3.2.5 Joseph: From Patriarch's Son to Prime Minister (Gen. 37-50)

3.2.5.1 A Fancy Coat and Angry Brothers (Gen. 37:1-36)
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3.2.5.2 Judah and Tamar (Gen. 38)
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3.2.5.3 Joseph Loses Another Cloak and Lands in Jail (Gen. 39:1-20)
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3.2.5.4 Joseph, the Prisoner and Interpreter of Dreams (Gen. 39:21-41:36)
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3.2.5.5 Joseph and His Brothers Again (Gen. 42-45)
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3.2.5.6 The Family in Egypt (Gen. 46-50)
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3.2.6 Summary on the Patriarchs
 

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