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Characteristics of J

Characteristics of J. Yahweh God Anthropomorphic view of God No days as in Genesis 1 the man and his wife (male and female) fallible ancestors vs perfect ancestors Man-plants-animals-woman (vs. Gen 1: Plants-animals-man/woman). Ironies.

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Characteristics of J

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  1. Characteristics of J • Yahweh God • Anthropomorphic view of God • No days as in Genesis 1 • the man and his wife (male and female) • fallible ancestors vs perfect ancestors • Man-plants-animals-woman (vs. Gen 1: Plants-animals-man/woman)

  2. Ironies • Snake: You will not die--true in the short run, but they would have death in them • Snake: Eyes will be opened--true, but they will see nakedness • You will be like God knowing good and evil--true, but this is forbidden • Lest people put out their hand toward fruit--God put them out

  3. Etiologies • clothes • snakes crawl and mutual hostility between them and humans • marriage • weeds and frustration in work • subordination of women--attraction to men; pain in childbirth • “woman”--taken from “man” • human shame about body

  4. Relationships • Man-woman (Adam: This at last…) • People-God (walking in the garden in the cool of the day) • People-animals (possible mates; conversation) • People-plant life • People and their bodies (naked and without shame)

  5. Broken relationships • The man and his wife hid from God • Man blamed woman and God; woman blamed the snake • Snakes crawl on bellies; Hostility between snakes and humans • Women-childbirth; women-men; men-agriculture • fratricide/sibling rivalry • variety of languages/lack of communication

  6. Structure of Genesis 2:4b-12:1-3 • Sin • Be like God---fratricide---imagination evil---Be like God • Punishment • pain in childbirth, submission to husband, frustrating work, banished from garden • Cain banished to wandering • flood • confusion of languages, nations scattered

  7. Grace in Gen 2:4b-11 • Genesis 3: Clothed and accepted by Yahweh • Genesis 4: Mark of Yahweh on Cain • Genesis 9: Never again another flood • Gen 12:1-3 Go to the land I will show you…By you all the families of the earth will be blessed (restored relationships)

  8. Protevangelium/first gospel in Gen 3:16? • he (they?) will “strike” your head, and you (plural?) will “strike” his (their) heel. • Nowhere understood in Bible as gospel • Form critically, a series of curses (hence not good news) • Irenaeus • “The patriarchs revived their spirits by the promise of the seed of the woman.”

  9. Original Sin? • Must a person believe that an original, historical couple fell? • Adam-Christ typology. The many--the one--the many (Rom 5:12-19; 1 Cor 15:21-22) • Manichaean heresy • Pelagian heresy

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