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READING DAVID IN GENESIS

READING DAVID IN GENESIS. The political agenda of the Pentateuch. READING DAVID IN GENESIS. The political agenda of the Pentateuch. Great literature that deals with historical events can also reflect a contemporary political agenda This has been a phenomenon throughout history politics.

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READING DAVID IN GENESIS

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  1. READING DAVID IN GENESIS The political agenda of the Pentateuch

  2. READING DAVID IN GENESIS The political agenda of the Pentateuch Great literature that deals with historical events can also reflect a contemporary political agenda This has been a phenomenon throughout historypolitics

  3. READING DAVID IN GENESIS The political agenda of the Pentateuch Great literature that deals with historical events can also reflect a contemporary political agenda This has been a phenomenon throughout history What is the content and critique of each example?Roman politics

  4. READING DAVID IN GENESIS The political agenda of the Pentateuch Great literature that deals with historical events can also reflect a contemporary political agenda This has been a phenomenon throughout history What is the content and critique of each example?1. The Book of Daniel Content: Babylonian exileCritique: Hellenistic politicspolitics

  5. READING DAVID IN GENESIS The political agenda of the Pentateuch Great literature that deals with historical events can also reflect a contemporary political agenda This has been a phenomenon throughout history What is the content and critique of each example?1. The Book of Daniel Content: Babylonian exileCritique: Hellenistic politicsRoman politics

  6. READING DAVID IN GENESIS The political agenda of the Pentateuch Great literature that deals with historical events can also reflect a contemporary political agenda This has been a phenomenon throughout history What is the content and critique of each example?1. The Book of Daniel Content: Babylonian exileCritique: Hellenistic politics 2. The Book of RevelationContent: Future ApocalypseCritique: Roman politics

  7. READING DAVID IN GENESIS The political agenda of the Pentateuch Great literature that deals with historical events can also reflect a contemporary political agenda This has been a phenomenon throughout history What is the content and critique of each example?1. The Book of Daniel Content: Babylonian exileCritique: Hellenistic politics 2. The Book of RevelationContent: Future ApocalypseCritique: Roman politics

  8. READING DAVID IN GENESIS The political agenda of the Pentateuch Great literature that deals with historical events can also reflect a contemporary political agenda This has been a phenomenon throughout history What is the content and critique of each example?1. The Book of Daniel Content: Babylonian exileCritique: Hellenistic politics 2. The Book of RevelationContent: Future ApocalypseCritique: Roman politics 3. Shakespeare’s Richard IIContent: 14th cent. RoyaltyCritique: 17th cent. Royalty

  9. READING DAVID IN GENESIS The political agenda of the Pentateuch Great literature that deals with historical events can also reflect a contemporary political agenda This has been a phenomenon throughout history What is the content and critique of each example?1. The Book of Daniel Content: Babylonian exileCritique: Hellenistic politics 2. The Book of RevelationContent: Future ApocalypseCritique: Roman politics 3. Shakespeare’s Richard IIContent: 14th cent. RoyaltyCritique: 17th cent. Royalty

  10. READING DAVID IN GENESIS The political agenda of the Pentateuch • Great literature that deals with historical events can also reflect a contemporary political agenda • This has been a phenomenon throughout history • What is the content and critique of each example?1. The Book of Daniel Content: Babylonian exileCritique: Hellenistic politics • 2. The Book of RevelationContent: Future ApocalypseCritique: Roman politics • 3. Shakespeare’s Richard IIContent: 14th cent. RoyaltyCritique: 17th cent. Royalty • 4. Arthur Miller’s The CrucibleContent: 17th cent. Witch trialsCritique: 1950’s McCarthyism

  11. READING DAVID IN GENESIS The political agenda of the Pentateuch • Great literature that deals with historical events can also reflect a contemporary political agenda • This has been a phenomenon throughout history • What is the content and critique of each example?1. The Book of Daniel Content: Babylonian exileCritique: Hellenistic politics • 2. The Book of RevelationContent: Future ApocalypseCritique: Roman politics • 3. Shakespeare’s Richard IIContent: 14th cent. RoyaltyCritique: 17th cent. Royalty • 4. Arthur Miller’s The CrucibleContent: 17th cent. witch trialsCritique: 1950’s McCarthyism

  12. READING DAVID IN GENESIS The political agenda of the Pentateuch • Great literature that deals with historical events can also reflect a contemporary political agenda • This has been a phenomenon throughout history • What is the content and critique of each example?1. The Book of Daniel Content: Babylonian exileCritique: Hellenistic politics • 2. The Book of RevelationContent: Future ApocalypseCritique: Roman politics • 3. Shakespeare’s Richard IIContent: 14th cent. RoyaltyCritique: 17th cent. Royalty • 4. Arthur Miller’s The CrucibleContent: 17th cent. witch trialsCritique: 1950’s McCarthyism • 5. Television/Film M*A*S*HContent: 1950’s KoreaCritique: 1970’s Vietnam

  13. READING DAVID IN GENESIS The political agenda of the Pentateuch • Great literature that deals with historical events can also reflect a contemporary political agenda • This has been a phenomenon throughout history • What is the content and critique of each example?1. The Book of Daniel Content: Babylonian exileCritique: Hellenistic politics • 2. The Book of RevelationContent: Future ApocalypseCritique: Roman politics • 3. Shakespeare’s Richard IIContent: 14th cent. RoyaltyCritique: 17th cent. Royalty • 4. Arthur Miller’s The CrucibleContent: 17th cent. witch trialsCritique: 1950’s McCarthyism • 5. Television/Film M*A*S*HContent: 1950’s Korea Critique: 1970’s Vietnam

  14. READING DAVID IN GENESIS The political agenda of the Pentateuch • These texts have impact because they are based on “historical” accounts • Individuals such as Abraham, Joseph and Moses likely existed in history • However, their literary representation likely does not reflect their actual lives

  15. Abrahamic Covenant Gen. 17:4 “As for me, this is my covenant with you: You shall be the ancestor of a multitude of nations. 5 No longer shall your name be Abram, but your name shall be Abraham; for I have made you the ancestor of a multitude of nations. 6 I will make you exceedingly fruitful; and I will make nations of you, and kings shall come from you. 7 I will establish my covenant between me and you, and your offspring after you throughout their generations, for an everlasting covenant, to be God to you and to your offspring after you. 8 And I will give to you, and to your offspring after you, the land where you are now an alien, all the land of Canaan, for a perpetual holding; and I will be their God.”

  16. River in Eden - Paradise Gen. 2:10 ¶ A river flows out of Eden to water the garden, and from there it divides and becomes four branches. 11 The name of the first is Pishon; it is the one that flows around the whole land of Havilah, where there is gold; 12 and the gold of that land is good; bdellium and onyx stone are there. 13 The name of the second river is Gihon; it is the one that flows around the whole land of Cush. Remember the Noah story? Who was Cush?

  17. River in Eden - Paradise Gen. 2:10 ¶ A river flows out of Eden to water the garden, and from there it divides and becomes four branches. 11 The name of the first is Pishon; it is the one that flows around the whole land of Havilah, where there is gold; 12 and the gold of that land is good; bdellium and onyx stone are there. 13 The name of the second river is Gihon; it is the one that flows around the whole land of Cush. 1Kings 1:32 ¶ King David said, “Summon to me the priest Zadok, the prophet Nathan, and Benaiah son of Jehoiada.” When they came before the king, 33 the king said to them, “Take with you the servants of your lord, and have my son Solomon ride on my own mule, and bring him down to Gihon. 34 There let the priest Zadok and the prophet Nathan anoint him king over Israel; then blow the trumpet, and say, ‘Long live King Solomon!’

  18. Abrahamic Covenant Gen. 15:18 On that day the LORD made a covenant with Abram, saying, “To your descendants I give this land, from the river of Egypt to the great river, the river Euphrates, 19 the land of the Kenites, the Kenizzites, the Kadmonites, 20 the Hittites, the Perizzites, the Rephaim, 21 the Amorites, the Canaanites, the Girgashites, and the Jebusites.” 1Kings 4:21 Solomon was sovereign over all the kingdoms from the Euphratesto the land of the Philistines, even to the border of Egypt; they brought tribute and served Solomon all the days of his life.

  19. Abraham’s nephew Lot’s Posterity Gen. 19:35 So they made their father drink wine that night also; and the younger rose, and lay with him; and he did not know when she lay down or when she rose. 36 Thus both the daughters of Lot became pregnant by their father. 37 The firstborn bore a son, and named him Moab; he is the ancestor of the Moabites to this day. 38 The younger also bore a son and named him Ben-ammi; he is the ancestor of the Ammonites to this day. Abraham’s son Israel’s Posterity Gen. 36:6 ¶ Then Esautook his wives, his sons, his daughters, and all the members of his household, his cattle, all his livestock, and all the property he had acquired in the land of Canaan; and he moved to a land some distance from his brother Jacob. … 8 So Esausettled in the hill country of Seir [name changed to Edom]; Esauis Edom.

  20. Abraham pays tithe to Melchizedek Gen. 14:18 And King Melchizedek of Salem brought out bread and wine; he was priest of God Most High. 19 He blessed him and said, “Blessed be Abram by God Most High, maker of heaven and earth; 20 and blessed be God Most High, who has delivered your enemies into your hand!” And Abram gave him one tenth of everything. 1Kings 1:34 There let the priest Zadokand the prophet Nathan anoint him king over Israel; then blow the trumpet, and say, ‘Long live King Solomon!’ 38 ¶ So the priest Zadok, the prophet Nathan, … went down and had Solomon ride on King David’s mule, and led him to Gihon. 39 There the priest Zadoktook the horn of oil from the tent and anointed Solomon. Then they blew the trumpet, and all the people said, “Long live King Solomon!”

  21. The Binding (Sacrifice) of Isaac Gen. 22:2 He said, “Take your son, your only son Isaac, whom you love, and go to the land of Moriah, and offer him there as a burnt offering on one of the mountains that I shall show you.” 2Chr. 3:1 ¶ Solomon began to build the house of the LORD in Jerusalem on Mount Moriah, where the LORD had appeared to his father David, at the place that David had designated, on the threshing floor of Ornan (Araunah) the Jebusite.

  22. Right of Primogeniture Ignored Gen. 48:13 Joseph took them both, Ephraimin his right hand toward Israel’s left, and Manasseh in his left hand toward Israel’s right, and brought them near him. 14 But Israel stretched out his right hand and laid it on the head of Ephraim, who was the younger, and his left hand on the head of Manasseh, crossing his hands, for Manasseh was the firstborn. 17 ¶ When Joseph saw that his father laid his right hand on the head of Ephraim, it displeased him; so he took his father’s hand, to remove it from Ephraim’s head to Manasseh’s head. 20 So he blessed them that day, saying, “By you Israel will invoke blessings, saying, ‘God make you like Ephraim and like Manasseh.’” So he put Ephraim ahead of Manasseh. One of many examples

  23. Judah sleeps with daughter-in-law, Tamar Gen 38:15 When Judah saw her, he thought her to be a prostitute, for she had covered her face. 16 He went over to her at the road side, and said, “Come, let me come in to you,” for he did not know that she was his daughter-in-law. She said, “What will you give me, that you may come in to me?” 17 He answered, “I will send you a kid from the flock.” And she said, “Only if you give me a pledge, until you send it.” 18 He said, “What pledge shall I give you?” She replied, “Your signet and your cord, and the staff that is in your hand.” So he gave them to her, and went in to her, and she conceived by him.

  24. READING DAVID IN GENESIS The political agenda of the Pentateuch • In many ways of the world of Genesis mirrors the personal and political situation of David and Solomon New political entity created with large borders Made Jerusalem, a city with no ties to tradition, the capital Sacrifice, once permitted throughout the land, now limited Foreigner was made head of the temple cult established there David succeeded by his youngest and not oldest son • What is ostensibly a narrative about the Patriarchs can also reflect the world of the author (J)

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