(ii)
Adam and God
(b)
Story 2: Trial and error; good and evil--GodÕs creation of
humanity and humanityÕs self fashioning and self definitionÑrise and fall;
innocence and experience; nakedness and shame; nymph and shepherd; ambition
polled and topped
(i)
MichaelangeloÕs Fall
of man maps the trajectory
(ii)
Some revealing details about character
and setting and theme and language--dialogue
g)
Structure of genesisÑgeneration, genealogy, genetics =sexual
selection
(1)
BeginningÑ beginning of the worldÑstory of all humanity
(a)
Rebellions and punishments: Cain and Abel, Noah, BabelÑnations
divided
(2)
MiddleÑone family selected to make a nationÑto Isaac to Jacob
= Israel and his descendantsÑ12 sons and their tribes
(a)
Abraham
(i)
Circumcision and fertilityÑGen.
17ÑSodom and GomorrahÑinfertilityÑwhy so much sex=fertility; the blessing;
the genealogy, the lineage, the continuity of succession--Ñ
(ii)
19 late in life, miraculousness,
not natural
(iii) Testing
of AbrahamÑGen 22 DramaÑ Rembrandt painting
(b)
Jacob=Israel
(i)
The younger son, the scrapper,
the lover, the wounded man, the penitent, the blessed--http://cla.calpoly.edu/~smarx/courses/204/Bible/Genesis.html
[chapter 32 at Jabbok]
(3)
End: Joseph and fertility and prosperity of the Israelites
h)
Structure of Exodus and the other historical booksÑthe rise
and fall of the Israelite Empire
(1)
Then the Prophets, then the Writings-- in Hebrew Bible
(2)
Rearranged in Christian bible: History, Writings, Prophets,
Story of Jesus and foundation of a new chosen people that follow him: the
church--leading to the finale of The End of Time, return to Eternity
and absorption of earth into heaven
