Old Testament Introduction: a Survey of the Hebrew Bible

Lecture 2: The Ancestors: Genesis 12-50

	Opening Prayer
	Class scheduling matters (exams, etc ; journal for those seeking credit)
	Comments and Questions

Abraham

• called from Mesopotamia (12:1-9)
• Sarai and Pharaoh (12:10-17)
  cf gen 20 (Sarah and Abimelech king of Gerar)
  and gen 26:1-11 (Rebekah and Abimelech king of Gerar)
• Separation from Lot (13) slide on Lot
• Battle of the kings (14)
  Melchizedek (14:17-20)
• Cutting a covenant (15)
• Hagar, Ishmael, and promised covenant (16 - 17) slide on Hagar and Ishmael
• Divine visitors and destruction of Sodom(18 - 19)
  Quran 11:70-84 ; [15:51-77; 51:24-37]
  origin of Moabites and Ammonites (19:30-38)
• [Sarah and Abimelech king of Gerar (20)]
• Birth of Isaac (21:1-8)
• Expulsion of Hagar and Ishmael (21:9-21)
• Abraham in land of Philistines (21:22-34)
• Death and burial of Sarah (23)
• Death and burial of Abraham (25:1-11) note Isaac and Ishmael buried Abraham (25:9)
• Line of Ishmael (25:12-18) [locations probably indicate Arabs]

[Isaac]

• Sacrifice / Binding of Isaac (22:1-19)
  Quran 37:100-112
• Fetching Rebekah as wife for Isaac from brother Laban (24)
• Jacob and Esau (25:19-34) slide on Jacob and Esau
• Isaac's sojourns and settling among the Philistines (26)
  [Rebekah and Abimelech king of Gerar (26:1-11)]
  Esau's Hittite wives (26:34)

Jacob

• Jacob steals Esau's blessing (27:1-40)
• Various plans for jacob to leave - and Esau's next marriage (27:41-28:9)
• Jacob's stairway at Bethel (28:10-22)
• Jacob wins Leah and Rachel from Laban (29:1-30)
• The children of Jacob (30:1-24)

twelve sons : tribes - Rachel and Leah

Genesis 49 (blessing of Jacob)
	setting: testament of Jacob
	Simeon & Levi (5-7) cf Gen 34
	Benjamin (bellicose subsequent history)

Deuteronomy 33 (blessing of Moses)
	hymnic framework 2-5, 26-29
	tribal sayings 6-25
	   Judah (7) - time of conquest or divided kingdom
	   Joseph (17) primacy (Jacob assigns to Judah)

• Parting disputes with Laban (30:25-32:3)
• Reunion with Esau (32:4-33:20) wrestling with the "angel" (32:23-33)
• Rape of Dinah (34)
• Jacob becomes Israel (etc) (35)
• the line of Esau / Edom (36)
• Judah and Tamar (38)

Story of Joseph

important function in larger story: move to egypt
form of story in itself: historical short story (novella style) similarities to Daniel 1-6
• Joseph sold into slavery (37) Ishmaelites of Midianites? (37:25-28, 36)
• Joseph and Potiphar's wife (39)
• Dreams of the cupbearer and the baker (40)
• Pharaoh's dreams and the years of plenty and famine (41)
• Brothers' first trip to Egypt (42)
• Brothers' trip to Egypt with Benjamin (43)
• The goblet and sending for Israel (44-45)
• Israel moves to Goshen (46)
• Pharaoh meets the family (47:1-12)
• Joseph the administrator (47:13-27)
• Final illness of Jacob and blessing of Ephraim and Manasseh (47:28-48:21)
• [Blessing of Jacob (49)]
• Burial of Jacob, Assurances for brothers, and Death of Joseph (5)

Concluding slide